Steven Matz has been really good the parts of the two seasons we’ve seen him in the majors. Unfortunately, he’s also spent considerable time on the disabled list in both of those years. Matz had offseason surgery to clean out bone spurs in his elbow but what ended his season was irritation in his shoulder. [...]
Does the season hang on Matt Harvey? We seem to think that Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom will be both healthy and dominant. And while we haven’t projected Steven Matz yet, it’s probably safe to assume that not many will be throwing out 200 IP seasons for him. So, can Harvey recover from his surgery [...]
Asdrubal Cabrera was a strong offensive player in 2011 and 2012. Then from 2013-2015, he put up a combined .712 OPS, one that was that high only because of a monster second half of 2015, when a .348 BABIP led to a .916 OPS, after he posted a .627 OPS in the first half of [...]
See what Henry Wadsworth Longellow and Ken McMullen have to do with Neil Walker.
It’s still a bit hard to believe what the Mets have with Jacob deGrom. No one considers his 2016 as especially great, yet through his first 21 starts of the season, he had a 2.30 ERA, a 1.050 WHIP and a 4.4 K/BB ratio. Then he struggled in his last three starts before winding up [...]
Since his defense was as good as his offense in 2015, Yoenis Cespedes had a monster year, recording a 6.7 fWAR. His defense was not as good in 2016, as his numbers in CF were worse than expected, and he posted a 3.2 fWAR. After the 2015 season, no one was willing to give Cespedes [...]
Welcome to our annual projection series, now getting ready to start its fifth season. We kick things off with Noah Syndergaard who, part by his dominating pitching and part by the fact that he was the only young gun to stay healthy, became the ace of the pitching staff in 2016. My opinion is that [...]
Bartolo Colon won six of his first seven decisions and we had visions of 2013 dancing in our head. Unfortunately, things didn’t remain this rosy the rest of the year. Of course, six of those first seven games were against NL East clubs and the seventh was a home game against an Orioles squad that [...]
This time a year ago, Michael Conforto was one of the prospects who made the Mets’ system one of the best in the game. Few imagined that he would make his MLB debut in 2015 and virtually no one expected him to no longer maintain rookie status for 2016. Conforto had an outstanding rookie season [...]
Steven Matz made his MLB debut last year in late June and was impressive in two starts before landing on the disabled list with a torn lat. He was sidelined for three months but came back to make four more starts in the regular season and three more in the playoffs. It’s a rather unique [...]
It was a weird year for Lucas Duda in 2015. Everyone wondered if he could duplicate the power he showed in 2014 and there were also concerns about his ability to hit lefties. So, Duda went out and again put up strong power numbers with a team-leading 27 homers. And he also hit lefties to [...]
Many expected Noah Syndergaard to make his MLB debut in 2014. But he didn’t have a particularly impressive season in Triple-A and the Mets opted not to give him a promotion. He started back in the minors at the beginning of 2015 but made his debut on May 12 after going 3-0 with a 2.12 [...]