Prior to the start of the 2023 season, FanGraphs’ Depth Charts, which acts as a conglomeration of all of the projection systems posted at the site, had Kodai Senga with a forecast of 160 IP and a 3.60 ERA. As we close in on the mid-point of the season, Senga has 76.2 IP and a [...]
We all want to see starting pitchers for the Mets go deep into games. It’s my opinion that when you’re not a slave to pitch counts, that you can get more from starters. Friday night was a great illustration of this, as Buck Showalter let Justin Verlander, who was pitching well, go another inning. But [...]
Francisco Alvarez continues to impress. Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez are leading the hype train, saying something positive about his defense in nearly every game. Last night he made a truly terrific play, fielding a ball fired into the dirt by Justin Verlander and applying the tag on the runner trying to score from third. [...]
It was a hope coming into Spring Training that the starting pitching would be a strength and that the bullpen would be above average. Injuries to two starting pitchers and the closer dealt the pitching staff a blow right away. And while the overall record is great, the pitching hasn’t been all that. The staff [...]
Baseball-Reference has breakdowns for stats for individual innings, as well as innings 1-3, 4-6 and 7-9. In 2022, 34% of the runs all MLB pitchers gave up happened in innings 1-3, 35% came in the middle innings and 1% came in the final three frames. This makes sense, as you figure with teams frequently using [...]
The first 10 days or so are the toughest ones of the season to write, at least for me. Everyone is picking the same stories to write about and it’s tough to come up with something unique in this time frame. And as of right now, there have been three games played. Three. It’s way [...]
The 2022 Mets had two offensive sinkholes in the lineup in catcher and designated hitter. They made an upgrade at the DH spot at the deadline and thanks to Daniel Vogelbach’s production, the Mets saw their final rank at the DH spot climb to 19th in MLB. That’s still not great but acceptable as one [...]
The Mets recently announced their 2023 minor league coaching staffs, as well as their player development and medical personnel for the upcoming season. The list of names includes many former MLB players, including the likes of J.P. Arencibia, Reid Brignac, Miguel Cairo and others. It caught me off guard that with the host of familiar [...]
The Mets have 22 games remaining in the regular season, which means we have the possibility of four more starts by Jacob deGrom. After missing most of the year recovering from the injury he suffered in Spring Training, deGrom has been tremendous. In seven starts, he’s 5-1 with a 1.66 ERA. Yet with potentially four [...]
In January of 2021, it was said here that, “One of the lousy things about the shortened 2020 MLB season was that it robbed us of a full season of prime Jacob deGrom.” Little did we know then that we wouldn’t get full years from deGrom in 2021 or 2022, either. In a fair universe, [...]
The Mets have seen five starting pitchers at least four times this year thru 121 games. With the schedule’s current heavy emphasis on divisional games, that doesn’t feel too unusual. Regardless, four of the five starters they’ve faced this often are really good pitchers. And the Nationals certainly hoped that Patrick Corbin would be better [...]
As Mets fans, we’ve watched Max Scherzer compete against us for a number of years and we saw one of his finest outings, when he threw a no-hitter with 17 strikeouts, missing out on a perfect game only due to an error, back in 2015. Also as Mets fans, we’ve seen a player have a [...]