The Mets hit a lot of home runs and the pitching staff for the Reds is on a pace to establish the record for most homers allowed in a single season. It was a match that looked great on paper and did not disappoint in real life, as New York clubbed nine homers in the [...]
James Loney, simply put, is a below average baseball player. He started a promising major league career in 2006 (albeit in just 102 at bats) and followed it up with an even more impressive season in 2007 as a 23 year old. He showed offensive skills well better than most first basemen in the game [...]
Here are some Mets or Mets-related tidbits that I've found interesting. The Mets are 12-4 in their last 16 games. That's their best stretch of 16 games this season since going 13-3 in late April. The earlier stretch was pitching dominated, as the club had a 2.80 ERA leading to the 13-3 mark. But while [...]
Kelly Johnson did not start last night for the Mets. That’s not a big surprise, as Johnson had started the three previous games and you can count on the fingers of one hand the times he’s done that since being acquired by the Mets and still have fingers left over. This despite the fact that [...]
Just how hot has Asdrubal Cabrera been since returning from the disabled list on August 19th? He's raised his batting average 19 points to .274 over just 14 games, if that's any indication. His triple slash over those games is a ridiculous .435/.471/.913. His OPS during that stretch is 1.384 for goodness' sake. He's been [...]
On the heels of the Mets’ exciting win last night – their third straight over the hated Marlins of Miami; another game’s worth of daylight put between the two teams, who had both been competing for the second Wild Card berth in the National League – word came down that slugging second baseman Neil Walker [...]
It’s hard to believe but a good many Americans find the game of baseball slow and boring. We aficionados of the game disagree with that assessment, at least for public consumption. In our more reflective moments we realize that games have a whole lot of routine ground outs to third (OK, admittedly they are never [...]
On December 17, 2012, the Mets acquired Travis d’Arnaud as part of the R.A. Dickey trade. Dickey had just won the 2012 Cy Young award. His value as a 38 year knuckle ball pitcher would never be higher. Before Dickey was traded, I was wishing with all of my might with my eyes closed tightly, [...]
If you’ve had a chance to listen to Terry Collins’ press conferences in the past few days, he’s been a happy man and it’s not hard to understand why. After playing with numerous starters on the DL, Collins’ guys have been returning to action and the team has put together one of their best streaks [...]
The 2016 season started off with great promise and optimism. The team was coming off a World Series appearance, their starting rotation was primed to start what we all thought a long stretch of dominance of the National League, and they even managed to retain the services of one Yoenis Cespedes despite the odds. It [...]
After 126 games in 2015, The Mets were 14 games over .500 and had a 6.5 game lead over the Nationals. After 126 games in 2016, the Mets are at .500, 10 games out of first place. The Mets are not going to win the division. The question becomes, what are the chances of winning [...]
Yesterday, uber commenter Jimmy P. made what seems to be a very valid point. He wrote about the Mets’ front office: “Perhaps they lack the organizational courage to go with and support a young player.” His comment seemed to be focused on Michael Conforto but it could be applied to virtually anyone in the system [...]