When everything was falling to pieces all around him last year, Jacob deGrom gave the Mets a measure of stability. He posted career highs in Wins (15), IP (201.1) and Strikeouts (239) and claimed his second top 10 finish in the CY Award race. From a personal point of view, perhaps the biggest disappointment was [...]
We’re going to kick off our annual projection series with Amed Rosario. This marks the sixth year that we’ve done projections here at Mets360. The idea has always been to see if the wisdom of the crowd of (mostly) Mets fans could do as good a job, or better, than the computer projection models. The [...]
Our Mets360 preseason projection review series now turns its attention to a trio of catchers in Travis d'Arnaud, Rene Rivera, and Kevin Plawecki. Like the 2017 infield, there were questions surrounding the breakdown of playing time for the team's catching corp heading into the season. D'Arnaud's history of injury and poor 2016 combined with Plawecki's [...]
Next up in our preseason projection review series is Yoenis Cespedes, slugger extraordinaire. Cespedes predictably opted out of the short-term deal he signed with the Mets at the end of the 2016 season, once again becoming a free agent. The Mets, amazingly, ponied up the cash to re-sign him to a four year pact shortly [...]
Next up in our preseason projection review series is a trio of infielders in David Wright, Jose Reyes, and Wilmer Flores. The Mets' infield picture heading into the 2017 season was a bit muddied in terms of who played where and how often. They needed to find playing time for the trio, and the question [...]
The next player in our preseason projection review series is our last pitcher, Steven Matz. Matz was quite good in the parts of two seasons he did pitch heading into the 2017 campaign, including his efforts for the team as they rocketed to the World Series in 2015. The problem, of course, is that he's [...]
Curtis Granderson is next up in our preseason projection review series. Granderson was the last of the veterans shipped out last summer when he was traded to the Dodgers for relief prospect Jacob Rhame in August. The big unknown heading into the 2017 season, besides the potential for a drop off in production, was how [...]
Matt Harvey is next up in our preseason projection review series, and to say he put forth a disappointing performance would be...well it would be a gross misrepresentation of the dumpster fire that was his 2017 season. His 2016 season was cut short after just 17 mediocre games and the revelation that he needed surgery [...]
Editor's Note - Before leaving a comment for this story, make sure you have read our new comment policy. The next player in our preseason projection review series spent just over a calendar year and played just shy of a full season's worth of games with the Mets before being offloaded in the 2017 payroll [...]
The next player in our preseason projection review series is the gentle giant, and chronically underappreciated, Lucas Duda. The second-longest tenured Met behind David Wright, Duda had surprisingly little goodwill with Mets fans despite being top four all-time for Mets first basemen in home runs, runs, RBIs, and wRC+. Duda was the first domino to [...]
Next up in our preseason projection review series is former (and future?) Mets second baseman Neil Walker. Walker was yet another casualty of the injury epidemic that hit the team this year as he spent most of June and July sidelined with a hamstring injury. With the season down the tubes, the Mets cut their [...]
The next entry in our preseason projection review series is a tragic tale in more ways than one. You see, Noah Syndergaard was primed to take over the New York rotation by continuing to establish himself as one of the most dominant hurlers in baseball. He was excited by this, as were fans. In fact, [...]