We talk about Woods Richardson, Szapucki, Kay and Peterson often enough. These are the starting pitchers who are supposed to make impacts at the major league level and who, based on their draft or previous successes, are supposed to be the best pitchers. Which means that few people will ever talk about Harol Gonzalez. At [...]
Baseball-Reference has this nice visual component to their site where if you go to a team page, they display thumbnails of the top 12 players on the team in bWAR. In addition to livening up the pages that normally just have text, it informs, too. Viewing the 2019 Mets, we see something that no one [...]
The Mets hit the field on a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon, looking to salvage a game from a listless series against the Milwaukee Brewers and to avoid falling below .500 for the first time this season. Steven Matz was entrusted with that task and he was more than up to it and deserved a [...]
Can Gio Gonzalez continue his mastery (11-2, 1.75 ERA) at Citi Field?
There are always wild and wacky stats early in the year. Perhaps my favorite Mets-related one is that the team is undefeated when they have a lead after six innings. When starting pitching was supposed to be a strength of the team, this would seem to add up to a great record for the club. [...]
The underlying theme of the night for the Mets was errors and miscues, particularly on the defensive side of the ball. The game started out with a slow dribbler to J.D. Davis, who was unable to handle the ball against a speedy Lorenzo Cain. Cain later scored on a throwing error by Pete Alonso, in [...]
There were times in the month of April that it seemed like the wheels had fallen off of the New York Mets tricycle. The pitching staff struggled mightily, and then once the bullpen came in to relieve, well, they didn’t do much relieving. Mickey Callaway was starting to feel the hot seat, and many fans [...]
Now in his fifth big league season, Noah Syndergaard has shown flashes of greatness, but has yet to establish himself as a consistently dominant pitcher. He has the stuff. He has the size. He has the swagger. He's entering what should be his prime and he's the hardest throwing starting pitcher in baseball with an [...]
Wednesday afternoon the Milwaukee Brewers signed Gio Gonzalez to a $2 million one-year deal with incentives. The Brewers certainly needed rotation help, and the veteran lefty seems like a great fit, but he seemed like a great fit for the Mets too. Much has been written about the Mets’ pitching woes in the early going [...]
The season is young but there are a few things you have to love about this team. Here's my top three: 3. Edwin Diaz's 1-2-3 9th inning saves punctuated by swinging strikeouts. 2. Pete Alonso's moon shots to dead center. 1. Jeff McNeil can hit any pitch thrown to him or snare any grounder hit [...]