Spring Training is underway and the Mets are playing baseball again. Two games into the Spring schedule and the Mets are looking like they’ve got a long road towards any semblance of baseball dominance but it’s still early enough that you aren’t actually watching the “true” Mets roster. It typically takes a while for teams [...]
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The Mets made a fair number of moves in this past offseason and we spent a fair amount of time discussing them. And now with Grapefruit League play underway, we get to see these guys in a Mets uniform for the first time. After watching about two-thirds of Saturday’s game against the Braves, this morning’s [...]
The story had almost every element imaginable that you could want to it. He is from New York City. In high school, the field he played on had no pitcher’s mound. He went undrafted out of Troy University, and signed with the New York Mets. T.J. Rivera was electric when he rose up to the [...]
Barring any last minute moves by our nimble general manager, the Mets roster appears ready to go ahead of tomorrow's first spring training game. All but the last spot on the bench and two spots in the bullpen are pretty locked up, but injuries always happen in spring training as we were reminded waiting on the [...]
This winter Baseball Prospectus (BP) developed a new metric called “Deserved Runs Created” that they hope becomes the most advanced and accurate measure of a hitter’s contribution. The math behind it is pretty frightening, and they withhold the actual calculations to prevent another site from copying it, but BP has released a series of articles [...]
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Robinson Cano put up a 2.9 fWAR in 80 games last year, which is a terrific number. It’s almost as good as the 2.7 mark Jeff McNeil put up in 63 games. Of course unlike McNeil, Cano has a track record, three times turning in a season of at least 6.0 fWAR, the last one [...]
Brodie Van Wagenen has only been on the job as the Mets GM for a few months, but the outline of the way he operates is taking shape. Let’s examine the approach the former player agent has pursued in running the Mets front office. 1. He tends to favor experience over youth in his roster-building. [...]
If you look at the Mets options at first base the 2018 stats tell the story of a few different types of players but Peter Alonso’s stats jump out to fans. Yet, let’s look at several options in the Mets system who showed similar stats in AAA. Player AB AVG OBP SLG K 2B HR [...]
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The Mets have five terrific prospects and it would have been six if they hadn’t dealt Jarred Kelenic in the offseason. In addition to the loss of their 2018 first-round pick, the Mets also shipped out two other guys who would have been in the top 10 – Justin Dunn and Luis Santana – as [...]