You almost have to feel bad for the Mets’ pitchers who have to follow Matt Harvey these days. With the legend of Harvey nearly growing to ‘perfect’ proportions, the rest of the staff (sans Jonathon Niese) have to be suffering from an inferiority complex. So far on the season, Shaun Marcum, Dillon Gee and Jeremy [...]
Jeremy Hefner’s overall numbers look poor this year (0-3, 4.34 ERA) but he’s pitched much better than his record indicates. He’s made five starts – and one horrid relief appearance – and three of them he’s pitched well enough to win. All three of those outings were Quality Starts and in them he threw 21 [...]
I’m not a huge proponent of invoking precedent because every situation is different… but Mets teams that wander through [May] gaining no traction have been known to Do Something. • When attendance fell through the floor in May 1983, the Mets called up Darryl Strawberry to sweeten a dour 6-15 proposition. • When masses failed [...]
We all know how the current Mets regime loves the lefty relievers. Five weeks into the season, four different lefties have come out of the pen for the Mets and the club still has Tim Byrdak and Pedro Feliciano as candidates for later in the season. The top brass has also talked glowingly about Jack [...]
Last Wednesday, Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting piece, suggesting that Lucas Duda be the Mets leadoff hitter. That, combined with Friday night’s decision to bat Justin Turner in the 5th slot in the lineup got me thinking. What would a sabermetrically optimized lineup look like on the 2013 Mets? So, [...]
According to the New York Mets Memorabilia Club's Checklist, 2013's edition is the 103rd different Met Yearbook (counting the Spanish editions of 1988-1990, and 1992 as well as all the various editions of the Yearbooks through the years, even “Final Shea Stadium Homestand” and SGA reprints of the 1969 (two actually), 1973 and 1986). In [...]
Though nobody in the Mets front office wanted to say it directly, the fans and the media were well aware of what 2013 was for the Mets: a continuation of the "rebuilding" process. There were great building blocks in place in Matt Harvey, Jonathon Niese, Josh Edgin, Bobby Parnell, Ike Davis, Ruben Tejada, and David [...]
The Mets look for a rare series win at Turner Field, weather permitting. Game time is slated for 1:35 PM. [chat id="61" ]
The remote got a workout last night as two of my favorite teams were playing – and ultimately beating – two of their biggest rivals. The Knicks bounced the Celtics from the playoffs with help from greybeards Pablo Prigioni, Jason Kidd and Kenyon Martin. Meanwhile, the Mets beat the Braves in no small part because [...]
With all the bad press the Mets are getting these days, at this point it seems as if the Mets are seeking out more bad publicity. You know the sentiment: any publicity is good publicity. With news leaking about the police cracking down on alcohol consumption in the parking lots at Citi Field, the Mets [...]
The Mets currently sit second to last in the NL East with a record of 11-15, four games ahead of the lowly Miami Marlins. With a losing record, the chances of closing out a game for a pitcher become less then more, because you obviously need to be ahead in ballgames when it comes to [...]
No doubt that you have heard the phrase, “people rise to the level of their incompetence.” This is a common experience in the work place, which is filled with managers who were successful in their previous position and then promoted into a position for which they have no aptitude. Essentially, this is the Peter Principle. [...]