Mets Minors: Mets swing for fences with Matthew Allan pick

Before the 2019 Draft it was stated in this forum that this draft would set the tone for Brodie Van Wagenen and the hope was that the Mets would be aggressive in a push to rebuild their system. It's difficult to imagine the Mets being more aggressive than they were, as they essentially punted picks [...]

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Gut reaction: Mets 6, Rockies 1 – 6/9/19

Noah Syndergaard had a near flawless day on the mound and led the Mets to an easy 6-1 win over the Rockies as the Mets captured the series on Sunday. Syndergaard clicked immediately with catcher Tomas Nido and seemingly threw the right pitches in the right locations all day long, making very quick work of [...]

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Mets still searching for Seth Lugo’s best role

Seth Lugo allowed runs in five of his first nine games this season and sat with a 5.68 ERA after the April 19 game. Since then, he’s appeared in 14 games and in 18.2 IP, he’s allowed just 1 ER, posted a 0.643 WHIP and has held opposing hitters to a .429 OPS. Overall for [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 5, Rockies 3 (6/8/19)

One night after a flat offensive performance, the Mets scored runs in the sixth and seventh innings to break a tie and emerge with a 5-3 win over the Rockies Saturday night at Citi Field. Perhaps the best thing that happened in this game was being more aggressive with the good pitchers. Much like with [...]

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Vargas and Frazier are finally earning their pay

At this point last season, Jason Vargas and Todd Frazier had become the latest laughingstocks in a long line of embarrassing misses in free agency for the New York Mets. Vargas had proved to be unreliable on the mound, and the once reliably healthy Frazier showed that even he was susceptible to injury once donning [...]

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Gut Reaction: Rockies 5, Mets 1 (6/7/19)

The first game against a tougher schedule did not turn out so hot for the Mets, as they dropped a 5-1 decision to the Rockies Friday night at Citi Field. After threatening previously to break up the successful Jacob deGrom-Tomas Nido combination, the Mets did it this game and the results were less than good. [...]

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Firing Mickey Callaway could start an avalanche

Note: The below post was written a few days ago before the Mets *ahem* stepped it up and took two straight games at home against an awful team. Mickey Callaway screwed up yet again, but it's not time to fire him. His premature pulling of Noah Syndergaard on Tuesday night led to another bullpen avalanche [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 7, Giants 3 (6/6/19)

Last night, Jason Vargas defied the world in hurling a five hit, complete game shutout. Among fans, that led to some early daydreaming: if Vargas can do that, what will Zack Wheeler do tomorrow? Well, Wheeler did his part and the Mets' home run bats did the rest. Power and pitching were on full display [...]

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