After being sidelined for more than a year, Jacob deGrom is scheduled to return to the mound Tuesday against the Nationals. Could he use another rehab start? Yeah, probably. He missed one during the All-Star break and tried to make up for it with a simulated start. His next, and final, rehab start wasn’t all [...]
Edwin Diaz was solid for the Mets last year but not many people were doing cartwheels over a season that saw six losses, six blown saves and a 3.45 ERA. This year, he has allowed a higher BB/9 and a higher HR/9 yet has a 2.28 ERA. And as sparkling as that ERA is, it’s [...]
Pete Alonso has been on fire here recently. In his last 17 games he has a .349/.429/.762 line in 76 PA, with 8 HR and 24 RBIs in that span. It’s brought his season-long OPS+ to 160, which is tops on the club among the 15 hitters to have amassed at least 15 PA this [...]
When Spring Training started, it was a reasonable question to ask who the Mets’ best pitcher was. Jacob deGrom was in the midst of an historic season in 2021 but then got hurt and missed half the year. Most Mets fans consider deGrom as the best pitcher in the game but his injury issues had [...]
Game Score is a Bill Jame creation developed to rate how good a starting pitcher’s outing was. It’s designed so that a score of 50 is an average performance for a pitcher. The highest Game Score is 105, recorded by Kerry Wood on the night he pitched a one-hitter and struck out 20 batters. The [...]
Its always a good idea to take Spring Training stats with a grain of salt. It might be an even better idea this year, given the late start, the rushed time to begin games against other teams and the lack of diversity in opponents. With those qualifiers out of the way, the Mets’ pitching has [...]
August was bad for the Mets and September has been worse. While the record has been slightly better so far in September, it felt like at least the club was trying in August. For the most part, the club has seemed lifeless in the last 10 games. They played hard in the series against the [...]
On April 23, Jacob deGrom threw 109 pitches in a game. Little did we know at the time that was going to be significant. No, we’re not talking about how he got hurt in that outing and never pitched the same again. Rather, in the 100-plus games from that point, only one pitcher on the [...]
Many people expected the Mets to struggle in this 13-game stretch against the Dodgers and Giants. It wasn’t an outrageous forecast, given how those were two of the top three teams in the National League and how the Mets were playing their worst ball of the season. And the pessimists were 100% correct, as so [...]
Last night’s loss was crushing. In a way, it's 21st Century baseball in a nutshell. The starting pitcher was cruising but because he was approaching the 100-pitch boogeyman, he was removed from the game. Tylor Megill had pitched six shutout innings and his pitch count stood at 93. His spot in the order was due [...]
In Saturday’s game against the Yankees, Pete Alonso was aggressive right from the first pitch. He came to the plate five times and swung at the first pitch each time up. Since he went 0-4 with a strikeout, it was fair to wonder if he was being too aggressive. But the numbers certainly make it [...]
Jacob deGrom has left early in both of his last two starts, leading the armchair doctors to speculate that it’s all because of the effort/velocity which he throws his pitches. Never mind that deGrom himself has said that swinging the bat is what has caused him the most trouble. Never mind that that neither one [...]