Bartolo Colon made news recently when he stated a desire to return to the majors and retire as a Met. When you have a reputation for being a club open to giving chances to guys who were last good three…
May 15 was the six-year anniversary of Jacob deGrom’s major league debut, where he allowed one run in seven innings to the New York Yankees and took the loss – owing to a lack of run support which has become…
If asked to name the biggest fluke season by a batter in Mets history, you might answer 1996 Bernard Gilkey or Lance Johnson from the same season. But what if we framed the question in a different way? What Met…
Over the past four weeks, The Last Dance documentary chronicling the life and career of Michael Jordan has captured the minds and viewership of millions of Americans. Over the course of the documentary, fans both young and old either rekindled…
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” The world rewards confident people, especially confident men. It would be nice if a neutral party kept score…
There seems to be a lot of momentum for the MLB season to get underway in early July with a schedule of around 80 games. Of course, we still don’t know all of the details, including where the games will…
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…
The very first Mets season, 1962, was a dreadful one. That team, which lost 120 games, is sometimes cited as the worst team ever in modern baseball history. But there is a case to be made for a different team…
The Mets finished in the middle of the pack in 2019 which leaves the team with a mediocre 19th overall pick in the 2020 draft. In today’s post we are going to feature several of the more likely players for…
In 2015, Bryce Harper put up a 9.3 fWAR. He was already a heralded player and this pushed him into a different stratosphere. Starting in 2016, Harper has put up the following fWARs: 2.9, 4.8, 3.4 and 4.6 in his…
In the absence of baseball, survival strategies for managing the pandemic reign supreme. As a scientist, it is hard to imagine the pathway for getting teams in isolation enough to play anytime soon. Rather than making another rear-looking assessment of…
There are three main ways to improve your team. You can draft amateurs; you can trade for players and you can sign free agents. The Mets of the late 70s were terrible because they weren’t good in any of these…
