Since the Qualifying Offer system was developed not a single player has opted to accept the one year deal and stay with his team. Rather every player offered it has left, usually for a multiyear deal elsewhere. This has usually, but not always, worked in the player’s long term favor. One notable exception was when [...]
Did we leave our bats in Chicago? Did we not take batting practice during the five day layoff? In the two and a half games in Kansas City the Mets are hitting a collective .165 with a pathetic .432 OPS and just one extra base hit. For the sake of comparison, the Mets hit .244 [...]
The 2015 World Series is all of two games old. The Mets have lost both of them. These are irrefutable facts. We fans always look for what it all means going forward. We look for portents, patterns and trends. If you ask most Mets fans in the aftermath of being nickel-and-dimed to death in game [...]
It's late October - nothing going on, right?
After this morning’s 5-4 Kansas City Royals victory over the New York Mets, game two of the 2015 Major League Baseball World Series will begin tonight at 8:00pm E.T., and it has potential to be fantastic. The pitching matchup will feature Mets’ ace Jacob deGrom, and Royals’ “ace” Johnny Cueto. Since July 26, the day [...]
The Mets have played 24 World Series games, with their overall record standing at 12-12. Tonight, the Mets will begin the 5-9 day adventure on to whether or not the Mets will have a .500+ record on MLB’s biggest stage. Yes, we all eagerly await the biggest game the Metropolitans have played in over four [...]
If there is one last intangible in the game of baseball, it is the role of the manager. I'm sure contribution can be totaled by calculating the odds of one move versus another in some endless algorithm. Many of us over the years have played an armchair analyst or Monday morning quarterback regarding Terry Collins [...]
Sending a message to players is important to do if there are individuals who think they are above the team. The Mets have had many ups and downs with one of their young starting pitchers throughout the past couple of seasons, whether it was because of stuff posted on social media, comments made to the [...]
The best thing about the World Series is that the Mets will be playing in it for the first time since 2000. That’s enough to make any Mets fan happy. What makes it even better for me is that the Mets got there by essentially abandoning one of the front office’s core beliefs: That the [...]
One of the main (baseball-related) story lines for the Mets National League Championship Series (NLCS) against the Cubs was high-end pitch velocity. Specifically, the Cubs as a team hit poorly (.228 BA according to Baseball Savant) as a team against pitches 95mph and above. The Mets, as a team, threw 2,510 pitches at 95mph or [...]
Pretty much all fans of professional football dislike the fact that most years there is a built-in two week wait separating the NFC and AFC championship games and the Super Bowl. There have been a few years when the wait was only one week and it seems that these years have had more entertaining and [...]
Yesterday, Charlie wrote an article at the site discussing, among other things, the contributions of Sandy Alderson to the NL pennant winners. A couple of people in the comments were not overjoyed with Alderson receiving praise. One felt that Omar Minaya should receive more credit than he gets and another thought that the rebuild took [...]