Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. In 2021, Mets starting pitchers were 32-57. Yeah, we all know wins aren't the best way to judge starters. But that's just terrible. Leaving out Jacob deGrom and Marcus Stroman, here's how Mets starters with at least four starts fared last year [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. This was a comment left on a story in The Athletic entitled, "Mets' new manager Buck Showalter: 'There's no magic sprinkle dust. It's about winning baseball games'": Magic sprinkle dust sounds like droppings from the mythical Ratcoon. Is that still around? [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. John wrote an interesting piece yesterday, asking if the Mets would have been better not making any trades since Brodie Van Wagenen took over. Metsense had a strong comment, comparing all of the players head to head and thinking that the current [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. The Mets have begun interviews for their managerial opening and reports have these interviews lasting up to five hours. How would you like to be the guy who was being grilled for five hours and who doesn't even get the job? Have [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. : The following list of players the Mets tendered contracts to comes from SNY: Meanwhile, the following players were tendered contracts for 2022: 1B Pete Alonso, INF Travis Blankenhorn, RHP José Butto, RHP Miguel Castro, INF/OF J.D. Davis, RHP Edwin Díaz, [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. When Noah Syndergaard and Justin Verlander - two pitchers who've essentially missed two seasons - each signed one-year contracts worth over $20 million, it seemed like we were going to see a huge premium for pitchers this offseason. Then Anthony DeSclafini, who [...]
Andy Martino had a list of managers Billy Eppler might be interested in and one of those was Buck Showalter. In his last season managing a team, the 2018 Baltimore Orioles, his squad went 47-115, which is 1962 Mets type of bad. But, Showalter also managed the Orioles to a 96-win season and it might [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. As everyone knows by now, former Mets reliever Pedro Feliciano died in his sleep at age 45. Feliciano was the ultimate LOOGY. In a stat line we hope never to see again, Feliciano appeared in 484 games in his MLB career [...]
Please use this thread to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. First off, apologies for no article yesterday. My back seized up on me and sitting upright in a chair just wasn't an option. As for the Mets, word came down that they were cutting ties with Zack Scott. Perhaps it was their only [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. Here are the OPS numbers for Mets' hitters in the second half of the season: .921 - Pete Alonso (324 PA) .876 - Javier Baez (184) .813 - Francisco Lindor (158) .810 - Brandon Nimmo (260) .792 - Michael Conforto (274) .760 [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. In an open thread 11 months ago, my call was for Jeff Luhnow to be the new PoBO for the Mets. It still makes as much sense now as it did then. Perhaps even more. Now that the big three have all [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. We know all about the injuries the 2021 Mets suffered. But not all injuries are created equal. Obviously, there's the amount of time that they caused the player to miss. But even beyond that, it's how the injury impacted things even [...]