Zack Wheeler’s rookie campaign had its ups and downs, but most importantly, he was able to finish on a strong note – getting better each start before hitting a wall in September. Before the season, the collective writers of Mets 360 projected Wheeler’s stats to look something like this: Innings Pitched: 88.1 Earned Run Average: [...]
The next player in the Mets360 preseason projection review is Shaun Marcum. The original piece with the projections can be found here. As a group, the Mets360 staff projected the following line for Marcum: IP – 160.2 ERA – 3.68 K – 125 BB – 47 HR – 17 Marcum was an example of what's [...]
One of the concerns heading into the 2013 season was the Mets bullpen. Attempts by Sandy Alderson to revamp the bullpen in the 2012 off-season had failed (Frank Francisco says hello) and Alderson really didn’t do much in the following off-season to bring in a marquee reliever. Instead, he brought in older guys such as [...]
It was really a tale of two seasons for Dillon Gee. Through May, Gee had an ERA of over 5.50 and was getting pounded left and right by just about everybody he faced. But a start against the New York Yankees on May 30th began to change the face of Gee’s season. In that game [...]
Baseball is a funny and complex game. Strategy and instinct are two aspects of the sport that seem to come into play more than any other sport. As I watched Game 5 of the National League Division Series, I saw two plays that reminded me of an integral judgment made in the 1986 World Series [...]
Yesterday I advocated for the Mets to give their young pitchers a shot, rather than going out and finding the 2014 version of Chris Capuano, Chris Young or Shaun Marcum. But how realistic is it that Sandy Alderson and friends will allow their youngsters a chance to prove themselves? Judging by their actions in late [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Solid pitching in the upper minors means there's no need for the Mets to take on another injury reclamation case as one of the five projected starters for the 2014 Opening Day roster.
Sandy Alderson was brought in to rebuild a franchise heading down the path of becoming a train wreck. During his reign here in Flushing, he has started to implement a new mindset and a new philosophy on how to play baseball. That started with bringing in Terry Collins, bringing in bullpen pieces on a year-to-year [...]
Back in January of this year, the Mets360 crew set out to predict the 2013 statistical performance of key personnel. In this entry in our ongoing recap, we take a look back at what we expected of Jonathon Niese and what he delivered. We were by and large a sanguine bunch when it came to [...]
Ah, the one man that can actually turn a good day into a bad one with a homerun. At one point it seemed the perfect combination of Lenny Harris, Matt Stairs and Ed Kranepool had been formed on New York’s bench, but all good things come to an end and a foul ball to the [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]