Tomas Nido has been a backup catcher with the Mets since 2017, with some stints in the minors interspersed during his tenure. The break that he should catch is a chance to get more playing time. He’s not likely to turn into another J. D. Davis, who blossomed with the Mets after stumbling with the [...]
The Mets need starting pitchers STAT! Not long ago, the Mets were loaded with pitchers. But then we traded away three of our best pitching prospects, let one of our top starters leave via free agency, and lost another to Tommy John surgery. Despite all that, we still had the makings of a good rotation, [...]
https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/1292898832724918280 Marcus Stroman has opted out. So much for being one sim game away from a return. This hurts much more than Yoenis Cespedes leaving.
With his two-hit game Saturday night, J.D. Davis extended his hitting streak to 12 games. After starting the season 0-6, Davis now boasts a .319/.389/.532 slash line. Those numbers compare favorably to his breakout year of 2019, when he slashed .307/.369/.527 in his first shot at consistent playing time in MLB. In 154 games as [...]
With more than 20% of their games played so far, the Mets are in last place in the NL East with a .385 win percentage and a 5-8 record. While it isn’t too late to storm to the top, several things have been hurting the team and need to be addressed so that the losses [...]
Some eyebrows were raised when Andres Gimenez made the Opening Day roster once the 2020 season got underway. But manager Luis Rojas has done a good job finding ways to get Gimenez’ feet wet. He’s come in as a defensive replacement in his first five games and now he’s been the starter five of his [...]
No, that was not a typo. And of course, it is not going to happen, but it should. One problem with poorly constructed teams is the notion of players being stuck in positions that are not suitable for their skills set, a topic that has been covered here, even recently, in an article by Chris [...]
It’s frustrating to score five runs in a Jacob deGrom start, where he only allows two runs, and not win. There’s plenty of blame to go around and no one can look themselves in the mirror and say they are without fault. In a game that not only could have, but should have been won, [...]
In four games the Mets have used 10 relievers. And even in that short time frame, we’ve seen expected results for the best and the worst. Anyone being honest would look at a combination of 2019 and Spring Training/summer camp results and say that Seth Lugo was their best reliever. And he already has 3.1 [...]
The key to being a good manager, according to Jim Leyland, is being sure to put your players in a position to succeed. One of the keys to preventing runs is doing a good job of having your pitching and defense work together. The biggest key for the Mets will be in not giving away [...]
Rick Porcello had a New York debut to forget, as he allowed 7 R in 2+ IP, digging the Mets a hole they could not get out of, as the Braves took the series with a 14-1 win Sunday night. We can hope that it was just a fluke outing for Porcello but neither his [...]
It might be slightly hyperbolic to call 2020 a hellscape, but the good news is that baseball is officially back to return some sense of normalcy to our everyday lives. Despite feeling like we're in the opening montage of a post-apocalyptic movie, baseball provides a welcome reprieve from the onslaught of seemingly endless bad news. [...]