Who’s the Mets’ biggest rival, the team you enjoy beating most? Your answer might depend upon when you first got into the game. To me it’s always nice to beat the Cubs. Maybe it’s not the same as it was…
No names. Pick which player you would want if you could only get one: Player A: Age 26, 248 PA, .329/.381/.471/.852, .359 BABIP, 7/8 SB Player B: Age 23, 249 PA, .314/.341/.423/.764, .362 BABIP, 8/13 SB My choice is the second player just based on what we see above. There…
Yesterday the New York Post published an article by Mike Puma in which he talked to two anonymous “talent evaluators with strong knowledge of the NL East,” to discuss which club in the division had the best rotation. On the…
Things are never as easy as they seem. And that point is driven home more than ever in the uncertainty of our new Covid world. The Mets announced their preliminary summer camp roster and it was hard not to notice…
Do you know who the Mets’ player representative to the MLBPA is? Off the top of my head there was a blank but after looking it up and hearing the name, it rang a bell. Give up yet – ok,…
There are things we’d like to be able to do in our job but we don’t for a variety of reasons. Maybe the owners don’t provide us with enough resources. Or maybe our bosses institute policies that are absurd but…
Major League Baseball’s proposed 60-game season is tentatively set to start in less than a month, but it’s certainly more than simply a shortened version of the marathon we’ve grown accustomed to over the last century. Beyond the reduced number…
In their 58-year history, the Mets have made 68 first round picks. We’ve had a few years with no top round pick and a few where we had more than one, hence the big, crooked number. Of those 68 picks,…
They’re running a poll on MetsBlog about who the team’s leadoff hitter should be. The good news is that Brandon Nimmo is the overwhelming favorite, garnering over 80% of the votes among the three candidates. The bad news is that…
In Friday’s column about the unfairness of Interleague play, longtime commenter Name asked if it was fair that the Marlins had to oppose Jacob deGrom six times while the Phillies only had to face the league’s best pitcher once. To…
Gripe as you must about the current state of Major League Baseball, it never hurts to take a look back to 10 years ago and reflect on some of the things that we saw. Awful contracts, being burned by Bernie…
If you’ve been reading the site for a while, you know my stance on Interleague play. To summarize, it’s unfair to the Mets because while teams they’re battling for a playoff spot get to play a pushover – last year…
