“When we’re all gone and Suhboda [sic] stays and he commences to hit balls over buildings, who says he won’t lead this club to ten or a dozen pennants?” – Casey Stengel, spring training, 1965 The Mets, sudden winners and the current innamorata of New York City, have never lacked for “folk heroes” – players [...]
The Mets finished off their four-game sweep of the Rockies with a 12-3 win Thursday afternoon at Citi Field. It was the 11th sweep of the year for the Mets and second of a four-game set. New York is now 63-52, the first time all season its been 11 games over .500. Nine of the [...]
The New York Mets are on a roll these days and the baseball world is taking notice. They've been the focus of MLB ad campaigns and even stealing the back pages of the New York newspapers from their cross-town rival Yankees. Yes, life is good currently in Queens these days, but it almost wasn't this [...]
The Mets notched their third straight win and their 12 victory in their last 16 games with a 3-0 shutout of the Rockies Wednesday night. Jacob deGrom continued his marvelous streak of pitching, hurling seven shutout innings with 10 strikeouts. The only negative was he ended the team's streak of walkless innings. In fact, he [...]
The New York Mets have been dubbed the biggest story of 2015 by many sports writers, and rightfully so. This season, the Mets have gone from the best team in baseball, to one of the worst teams, and back to one of the best. The Mets’ recent success is mostly due to the additions made [...]
One of the hardest things a manager has to do is run his bullpen and there are very few skippers who do it well year in and year out. There are a number of reasons for this and one of them is the sample size issue. It’s rare for a current reliever to exceed 80 [...]
The Mets are quickly gaining credibility around the league even after four months of mediocrity at the dish. Much of the reason that the Mets have struggled at the plate in 2015 is the absence of the heart and soul of the Metropolitan offense: David Wright. His presence in the Mets dugout almost guarantees a [...]
The Trading Deadline has come and gone and Sandy Alderson has looked like a hero bringing in both help for the offense and for the bullpen. He has always been just a touch slower in his approach to the active roster though, so now is the time for him to continue his drive towards October [...]
We baseball fans tend to be a passionate bunch. We lend more credence to our hearts than our minds, as much as we embrace sabremetrics. That’s why almost every Met fan is wrong about today’s Michael Cuddyer reinstatement. GM Sandy Alderson announced Cuddyer would return Monday, but played coy about the corresponding move until well [...]
While the big league ball club is playing some of the best baseball it has played all year, the Mets Triple-A affiliate has two players that are reaching their potential pretty quickly. Dilson Herrera and Brandon Nimmo have been top prospects in the organization for a good amount of time, but they are putting it [...]
The Mets are in a race for the playoffs and most nights Juan Lagares is on the bench. It’s not something most of us, much less his avid supporters, pictured coming into the season. Yet, viewed within the roller coaster ride that’s been his career with the Mets, it makes perfect sense. Lagares’ rise to [...]
All good things must come to an end. The seven-game win streak came to an end tonight as the Rays defeated the Mets 5-4. Noah Syndergaard struggled tonight as he went four innings and gave up five runs. The first inning was brutal for the young pitcher, as four runs came across. Curtis Granderson continues [...]