You’ve probably read by now that David Peterson was the first Mets starting pitcher to win his debut since Steven Matz back in 2015. What you probably haven’t seen is the list of pitchers who’ve made their first start in…
If a well-respected baseball man from another country – who had no idea who any of the players were nor what their status was – was put in charge of the Mets and given 100% freedom to pick and choose…
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On this date in 2015, Jacob deGrom had one of his signature games, as he hurled eight shutout innings, allowed just three baserunners and notched 10 strikeouts. But it’s not the best game ever by a pitcher with Mets ties…
In a normal year, we see pitchers leave Spring Training and get babied once the regular season starts. There are two thoughts behind this – 1) There arms haven’t build up the necessary stamina. 2) The weather is usually cold…
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Several different sites are running simulations of the 2020 season. MetsBlog is publishing results from MLB The Show 2020 and the Mets in that simulation are doing quite well, 10 games above .500 after 72 games. Baseball-Reference is doing one…
They say that politics make strange bedfellows but hearing the latest rumor on a proposed sale of the Mets by the Wilpon family makes me think sports is right up there in that department. As a Knicks and (long ago)…
Through the life of the site, there’s probably been hundreds of posts around baseball cards. Shoot, the image for yesterday’s article was a card. I miss Doug Parker’s weekly COTW column. Periodically I try to get him to do it…
Have you been following any of the online simulations of the 2020 season. Me, haven’t seen one of them. But I did see that in one, the Mets were 11 or 12 games above .500 and it made me wonder…
My guess is that everyone was excited thinking about the 2020 season back in January, thinking the Mets had a good shot at the postseason. Then the world turned upside down. Now, assuming they end up with an 80-game season,…
The owners are looking to use the pandemic to force players to accept a proposal that they’ve always rejected previously. MLB wants salaries to be a percentage of revenue. The players have rejected this in the past because it’s a…
