Poor Jay Bruce. The guy was an All-Star this year, comes to the Mets and now couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat. No one doubts that he’s trying. Yet it’s undeniable that he’s been lousy since arriving and he’s even turned it up a notch here lately. In his last 12 [...]
Quick quiz: what do Dean Anna, Brennan Boesch, and Jose Martinez have in common? Answer: Before T.J. Rivera who did it this year these were the players who won the Pacific Coast League’s batting title in 2013, 2014, and 2015 respectively. SeasonPlayerTeamAVG 2013AnnaTucson.331 2014BoeschSalt Lake City.332 2015MartinezOmaha.384 2016RiveraLas Vegas.353 2016Brandon NimmoLas Vegas.352 And since none [...]
The Mets have gotten fantastic production from their rookie pitchers this year and the tendency is to lump them in together, especially Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo. It seems to me that Lugo has received more publicity, so the focus today will be on Gsellman. The man with the funny name and the facial look [...]
Back in the first decade of the 21st Century, much was made of the multi-culturalism of the Mets. Sports Illustrated ran a cover story in 2007 titled: “Mix Master: The Unlikely Story of How Omar Minaya Created the Melting-Pot Mets.” Flash forward to 2016 and you don’t hear a peep about that sort of thing. [...]
With the Mets' win last night and the Giants beating the Cardinals, the Mets now stand two full games up on St. Louis for the second Wild Card spot in the National League. It wasn't too long ago that many were ready to leave them for dead in the race. You've all seen the numbers [...]
While the wild card rival Cardinals and Giants are busy beating up on each other this weekend, the Mets have a golden opportunity to gain ground with a three-game home series against the Major League’s worst team of 2016 – the Minnesota Twins. The two inter-league teams haven’t played since 2013 and back then the [...]
Michael Salfino writes for the Wall Street Journal as well as Yahoo! Sports. A couple of days ago he posted this on social media: Painful night for Familia, #Mets fans but is this team even any good? Salfino’s a good guy, and a Mets fan, too. This wasn’t a putdown. Instead, it was a legitimate [...]
J.B. These could be the initials that live forever in Mets’ infamy. For the last few years a Mets fan would associate the initials with Jason Bay, a free agent bust that played for the team in 2010 through 2012. This year’s trade deadline acquisition is also a J.B., Jay Bruce. We Met fans may [...]
A lot of Mets fans have never warmed up to Curtis Granderson. He got off to an incredibly bad start with the team in April of 2014 and seemingly fans have held that against him ever since. Or maybe it’s because he doesn’t hit for a shiny average and a lot of people still cling [...]
In 2016, the Mets had high hopes of riding their pitching staff back to the World Series. With a starting five of Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz and Bartolo Colon with Zack Wheeler expected to return in June, the team had every reason to be optimistic. The 43-year-old Bartolo Colon has been [...]
Here we are in the home stretch and right in the thick of things. This season has, in no way, gone the way management, players or fans could have expected. We could probably assemble a team from our disabled list (if, magically, they were all healthy) that could beat our current team. Yet somehow, we [...]
Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow has signed a minor league contract with the Mets organization. No, it's not April Fool's Day an no, this isn't an Onion article. The Heisman Trophy winner and University of Florida star turned Denver Broncos and NY Jets flop has set his sites on a second career as a pro [...]