It’s the time of the year when everybody seeks out the guy who seems to be struggling the most, says he sucks, and then calls for him to be traded. The culprit this year: Ike Davis. Coming into Sunday’s matchup with the Nationals, Davis owned a .161/.254/.321 slash line and was striking out in 28.6% [...]
The headline sounds like a broken record to Mets fans, and may be a bit kind. The small sample size rule is in play of course, since the season is less than a month old, but so far in 2013 the Mets bullpen has not been very good. The bullpen has a record of 2-2 [...]
This past week, rumors leaked that Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson was considering pursuing Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton. The reports were that a package to get Stanton would likely include highly touted Mets pitcher Zack Wheeler and catcher Travis d’Arnaud. From the standpoint of the Mets’ needs, this trade could make sense, however it might [...]
The 2013 Amateur Draft is less then two months away. The top ten picks go to: Houston Chicago (NL) Colorado Minnesota Cleveland Miami Boston Kansas City Pittsburgh Toronto The forecasting trends for these first ten teams begin to vary early in the projections. As of right now, the clear choice for the number one pick [...]
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Matt Harvey was the star of the show last night, as he pitched an outstanding game leading the Mets to a win over Stephen Strasburg. But clearly the other story line of the game was the Mets getting two home runs apiece from their lefty power hitters Ike Davis and Lucas Duda. It was the [...]
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Matt Harvey versus Stephen Strasburg – the pitching matchup of the year so far. I can’t wait to see it! Unfortunately, I’m going to have to wait to see it because I’m an mlb.tv user and for reasons known only to themselves, they’ve determined that I reside in Orioles/Nationals territory and games involving those teams [...]
In the winter of 1925, a couple of New York hustlers approached noted Wall Street broker and bookmaker – a legitimate profession back then – Tim Mara, looking for an investor. They had an idea of starting a new team in the fledgling National Football League. When Mara inquired as to the amount of his [...]
While we were worried about his hitting in Spring Training, the last thing we thought we’d have to worry about from Ruben Tejada was his defense. Well, after an abysmal start defensively, Tejada (six errors thus far) is causing a lot of headaches for a Mets’ team with little margin for error. Tejada has been [...]
By UZR, the three worst full-time second basemen in MLB in 2012 were Daniel Murphy, Jose Altuve and Rickie Weeks. Flash forward to the early going in 2013 and we see that once again, Weeks is the worst defensive player. He already has a (-3.0) UZR, which translates to a (-44.5) UZR/150, meaning he would [...]