The new Steve Cohen-era Mets made two quick, decisive moves last year that maybe they’d like to have back. They signed free agent James McCann to a 4-year deal and after trading for Francisco Lindor, they signed him to a 10-year extension before he played a single game for the club. We’ll save McCann for [...]
It wasn’t a good year for Jeff McNeil in 2021, as he had easily his worst year in the majors from a production standpoint. And if that wasn’t bad enough, he got into a mid-game confrontation with double play partner Francisco Lindor. After the season, we found out that Lindor was frustrated with McNeil’s refusal [...]
The beauty of the projection series is that there’s no order they have to be done in. However, generally all of these years it’s followed the pattern of alternating pitchers and hitters. Previously, four starting pitchers were done for the Mets. Fortuitously, the Mets just went out and traded for the final starting pitcher of [...]
One of the hardest things to do is to accurately rate your own players. When you watch a guy on a daily basis, you develop both favorites and non-favorites. All of us who watched Pete Alonso explode on the scene in 2019 would put him in the former category. How can you not like Alonso? [...]
In his first 12 games after the All-Star break, Taijuan Walker allowed 20 HR in 57 IP. That’s a 3.2 HR/9 rate, one that should have been high enough to have him removed from the rotation. Of course, with all of the injuries, the Mets didn’t have enough starters with Walker, so removing him from [...]
I feel sorry for Mark Canha. His profile – low AVG, good-to-high OBP and questionable SLG – is one bound to make him underrated by the average fan. He’s the kind of guy who can hit .225 and be valuable if the OBP and SLG are there. He’s also the guy who can hit .225 [...]
This time last year, everyone was excited about the acquisition of Carlos Carrasco as part of the Francisco Lindor deal. The Mets desperately needed starting pitching and Carrasco had battled back from his cancer scare and looked just as good as ever. Unfortunately, Carrasco was injured during Spring Training and it seemingly took forever for [...]
Brandon Nimmo hit all season long but with two main issues. The first was the mysterious hand injury, which kept him out for two months. Then there was the power drain that occurred in the first two months after he returned. When he was activated from the IL on July 3 thru the end of [...]
It’s been a while since Jacob deGrom has been the second pitcher tackled in the projection series. That doesn’t mean that deGrom is necessarily the second-best pitcher on the staff. It would be wrong to think that if deGrom made 30 starts that any pitcher would provide more value than he would. Of course, after [...]
The second-biggest free agent signing to date by the Mets has been nabbing Starling Marte on a four-year deal. Marte has been rumored to the Mets before but it’s difficult to know if that was just newspaper/fan speculation or if there was legitimate interest from the club. Back in 2020, the last time the Mets [...]
Today we kick off our 10th year of doing individual projections for the top players on the Mets. My hope is that everyone will weigh in on what they think the player will do in 2022. You’ll have more credibility later on about how you “knew” what Player X was going to do this season [...]
“And so begins the task I have dreaded the coming of For so long” One of my beliefs is that you have to hold yourself accountable for what you say and do. Each year right before the start of the season, I make about 15 predictions for the coming year. Not once have more than [...]