Three weeks ago, an article was published at this site comparing Amed Rosario to other young shortstops. Gus identified Xander Bogaerts as a potential comp for Rosario, which would be a wonderful thing if it turned out to be the…
News of Noah Syndergaard‘s Tommy John surgery, which occurred successfully this past Thursday in Florida, wasn’t really all that surprising given the prevalence of the procedure across baseball and the max effort delivery of his 100+ mph heaters. It was…
That the hard-throwing, weight lifting Noah Syndergaard finally succumbed to Tommy John surgery wasn’t that big of a surprise. After all, the list of triple digit fastball throwers who haven’t torn their ulnar collateral ligament is a lot shorter than…
New GMs are always eager to put their stamp on a team, which by itself isn’t a bad thing. After all, the old GM was let go for a good reason in most cases. The new GM doesn’t have any…
Since the 2019 season ended, there have a plethora of articles written about the Mets’ (reportedly) terrible defense, and their lack of personnel moves to address them. Good news – these reports are overstated. Do the Mets have holes in…
Over the span of the last week or so, Coronavirus has swept through just about every website, app, newspaper and any other method of media that you consume, at times, overpopulating the news cycle. Feel good stories are instead being…
One of the weaknesses of advanced defensive systems was how they handled things when a team was playing a shift. This wasn’t too big of a problem earlier in the decade but as more and more teams embraced shifting on…
You would be hard-pressed to find a Mets fan who has never criticized the Wilpon Family for one thing or another in their tenure as primary owners of the ball club. Just a few weeks ago they attracted a ton…
We’re not there yet but the Mets are going to have to make some decisions about a positional logjam in the next one-to-three years. It was a point of emphasis by Sandy Alderson to acquire as much high-end shortstop talent…
On March 12th, 2020, a thing happened that no one anticipated or had seen in our lifetimes. The major league baseball season was delayed for something that had nothing to do with the game itself. COVID-19, the strain of Coronavirus…
If you’ve been reading the site for any amount of time, no doubt you’ve seen me mention my fantasy team. Yeah, yeah – I know – no one wants to hear about your fantasy team. But with the season being…
Last year when Brandon Nimmo missed over half of the season – and played for a month when he really shouldn’t have – the Mets struggled tremendously filling the center field position with anyone who could hit at an acceptable…
