A few days ago, the site featured a poll asking readers, in a dream scenario, to pick one thing to happen for the 2020 Mets. The choices were to trade for Mookie Betts, get a full season from Yoenis Cespedes, sign Gerrit Cole, sign Anthony Rendon, or other. Here are the current results of the [...]
One of the most challenging things for baseball GMS and wannabe GMs is to determine when a sample size is big enough. Justin Turner was nothing special in his years with the Mets and they cut him loose in a salary-related move. And the very next year he was outstanding for the Dodgers. But in [...]
Editor's Note: This article was posted in November of 2019 but in the following September it was pointed out that the author blatantly plagiarized the piece. After consulting with the real person who wrote it, he asked that I leave it up and put a link to the original article, which you can find here [...]
The Mets seemingly have a new pitching coach in old friend Jeremy Hefner, who pitched parts of two seasons with the club in 2012-2013 before having his career derailed by elbow injuries. We’re so used to pitchers having TJ surgery, missing a year and then coming back as a reasonable facsimile of what they were [...]
We're in the offseason, where people believe the Mets have an unlimited budget and other teams want to bend over backwards to trade us their best player. It's George Costanza saying he's figured out a way to get Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. and it won't cost that much. Nobody wants a repeat of [...]
When Dominic Smith made his MLB debut, he had trouble buying a hit (.218 BABIP) but hit for more power than we expected (.198 ISO) him to. The following year, his BABIP came up to .297 and his ISO remained stable, with a .196 mark. But his K rate was an unsightly 31.5%. Then this [...]
The list of homegrown hitting stars for the Mets is pretty thin. It starts off solid enough with David Wright, Darryl Strawberry and Jose Reyes. But if falls off sharply from there. Sure, it has fan favorites like Cleon Jones and Bud Harrelson but if we’re being honest, those guys didn’t have particularly great careers. [...]
Sam Miller of ESPN had a great column idea. The premise is that a “fan” of all 30 teams came up with a wish for their franchise and the genie with the power to grant that wish asked for something in return. In order to grant the wish, the “fan” would have to sacrifice something [...]
There's still a slim chance Zack Wheeler will be in a Mets uniform on opening day. Just as there's a slim chance Anthony Rendon will be manning third base or Mookie Betts will be patrolling center field. Odds are, we've seen our last of Wheeler in blue and orange and it stings. Why? Because a) [...]
Last week, Major League Baseball honored Jacob deGrom with his second consecutive Cy Young Award, a feat that had never been accomplished by a Met’s pitcher. Mets360 recently noted that deGrom actually ranks third behind Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden in consecutive two year fWAR. This is certainly a testament to amazing performances by the [...]
We know that Jacob deGrom is the only pitcher in Mets history to win back-to-back CY Awards. But does that mean he's put up the best two consecutive years in franchise history? Let's use fWAR to check. deGrom - 2018 (9.0) and 2019 (7.0) - 16 fWAR Dwight Gooden - 1984 (8.3) and 1985 (8.9) [...]
In the beginning of November, the Mets declined their $9.5 million option on Juan Lagares, making him a free agent and likely ending his career with the club. If you type “Lagares” into the search box at our site – at least before the publication of this piece – you’ll get 875 search results. We’ve [...]