Wrigley Field still has a fair number of day games and Matt Harvey gets to show off his stuff in the midday sun. Game time slated for 2:20 PM.
Wrigley Field still has a fair number of day games and Matt Harvey gets to show off his stuff in the midday sun. Game time slated for 2:20 PM.
Coming into the season, Daniel Murphy had a lifetime .766 OPS with a slash line of .292/.339/.427 in 1,742 PA. So it shouldn’t be a big surprise that on games thru May 16th, Murphy has a 775 OPS with a slash line of .297/.335/.439 in 158 PA. This is essentially who Murphy is as a hitter. What is surprising is how he got here. Murphy started the year off on fire, with a .966 OPS…
It feels like with every passing game, this question continues to pop up: “What to do about Ike Davis?” And it is one that will really shape the way the 2013 Mets season turns out – if it already hasn’t. Davis has been touted as the first-basemen of the future for the New York Mets, but has been far from that. Besides a short sample size in 2011 where Ike had a .302/.383/.543 line in…
What’s wrong with the Mets? If you listen to Manager-for-the-moment Terry Collins, the answer is “Nothing. We just have to play better.” Well we’re all certainly glad he cleared that one up. Good to know he has the solution right at his fingertips. Meanwhile the Mets have just notched their second six-game losing skein of the season – they still haven’t played 40 games yet, mind you, so this is a feat that’s only been…
Mets try to avoid the four-game sweep while going up against old nemesis Wainwright. Game time is 1:45 PM.
With each mounting loss, it is becoming incredibly hard to find a silver lining to the Mets’ start to the 2013 season. With the Mets’ 4-2 loss to the Cardinals on Wednesday night, the Mets have now dropped six consecutive games. This is the second time this year that the Mets have dropped at least six games in a row. The Mets now have the third worst record (14-23) in the majors. Ike Davis, who…
Hard to find a more lopsided pitching matchup. The Cardinals have their young fireballing phenom going up against Shaun Marcum, who is not young, has never been a fireballer and likely never a phenom, either. Game time is 8:15 PM.
When the Mets hired Terry Collins, he was 62 years old and had not managed in the majors in a dozen years. His hiring was never about being a long-term answer. Instead, he was supposed to bring professionalism back to the position and help transition to a new era. He was a caretaker. Webster’s defines caretaker as: one that gives physical or emotional care and support. Yesterday, Collins trampled all over the idea of being…
1989 TOPPS BOX-BOTTOM KEITH HERNANDEZ Box-bottom cards are Spinal Tap-ian in both name and concept. They are the 18-inch Stonehenge of cards. These cards go to 11. Donruss began producing cards on the bottom of its wax boxes in 1985, and Topps picked up the glove in 1986. Donruss came to its collective senses quickly, and stopped printing the cards after the 1987 set; Topps, however, kept it up until 1991. Perhaps this persistence was…
Last time out, Gee pitched five shutout innings before hitting the wall. It sure would be nice if he could give a Quality Start tonight. Game time is 8:15 PM.
Your intrepid columnist likes to think he has a pretty good memory, especially about things that wouldn’t appear to particularly important to anybody else. I can forget work-related things with the best of ‘em. If I have to remember to mail something out, it’s a better than even chance I won’t remember to do it until it’s already too late. But trivia? Baseball stuff? Movies & TV? Old rock ‘n’ roll? I’m your man. So…
We are getting closer to the “Super Two” cut-off and that means we’re also getting closer to promotion time in minor league land. Once teams don’t need to sacrifice a year of cheap service they promote their star prospects to the majors and that vacuum will have an effect on players at every level of the system. Yet I wanted to talk about the player who I think is MOST ready for a promotion to…
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