Perspectives is a compilation of news, columns and team analysis
With the season he is having, Lucas Duda has squarely put many of his detractors in the background. Duda has already posted career bests in home runs, RBI, doubles and runs scored with 56 games left to play and Terry…
The ol’ clock on the wall ticks away this July 31, and it is becoming apparent that there will be no press briefings forthcoming from Citi Field. It looks as though Sandy Alderson and the Mets will not be participating…
There’s an old saying, “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. It seems that while watching the 2014 version of the New York Mets, that management hasn’t learned that lesson. For example, in December of…
Jacob deGrom was brought up at the exact same time as Rafael Montero, but was looked at as the weaker link. However, two and a half months later, deGrom is 5-5 and Montero is playing for the Las Vegas 51’s. …
It’s a fun thing to wake up overseas, on a fantastic vacation, roll over, grab your cell phone and follow the last couple of innings of a Mets’ win. That’s exactly what your intrepid columnist experienced as the All-Star break…
Over the last few weeks, the Mets seem to have a different overall energy than they had in May or June resulting in a positive opening to the second half and each day the possibility grows that October baseball could…
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but there is a good possibility that Ruben Tejada will be the Mets shortstop in 2015. There is a huge caveat with that statement, and that is the assumption that Wilmer Flores fails to…
There are two months left in the 2014 season, and it does not look like the Mets will be competing for a playoff spot. There have been flashes and streaks where the Mets’ play raises hopes and expectations for next…
Before the season started, we had an anonymous survey on the site where we asked various questions. One of them was: What should the Mets do about 1B? By far the most popular response among the four available answers was…
Everyone’s an expert (or critic) after the fact. That’s why preseason projections are such a nice thing to have. Before the season started, the official Mets360 projection for Zack Wheeler was for a 3.48 ERA and a 3.68 FIP. Currently,…
Somehow it feels wrong writing this just days after Ruben Tejada took a mid-90s fastball to the head, but there’s no denying shortstop – and left field – has been a weakness for the New York Mets. Tejada’s numbers improved…
It’s widely thought that Bartolo Colon will not finish this season as a member of the New York Mets. Colon helped this cause mightily by pitching a perfect game on Wednesday night into the seventh inning, before Robinson Cano broke…
