Friday open thread – 9/21/18

Here we go again for one last series with the Nationals. The pre-season division favorite has been a disappointment this year and it seems that a team loaded with All-Stars that won the division four out of the last six years will not only miss the playoffs, but may be coming to an organizational crossroads. [...]

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Gut Reaction: Phillies 4, Mets 0 (9/19/18)

The Mets dropped the rubber game of the series to the Phillies, 4-0, Wednesday night. It was the 12th time this season that the Mets have been shut out. Noah Syndergaard was victimized by the gopher ball, as he allowed two homers in his four innings of work. Neither one seemed to be particularly well [...]

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Mets and Phillies: A tale of two seasons

Okay, perhaps it’s not full Dickensian London and Paris on the cusp of the French Revolution, but the baseball fortunes of the fan bases for the Mets and Phillies provide us interesting contrasting tales here in 2018, even if they end up with the same record when it’s all said and done. And perhaps the [...]

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Gut Reaction: Phillies 5, Mets 2 (9/18/18)

In a game that got extended by both managers making a bevy of tactical moves over the course of the game, the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the New York Mets 5-2. Before the bullpen crew came in and wrecked the game for the Mets, it seemed like starting pitcher Steven Matz would be the headline of [...]

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Brandon Nimmo is high on the leaderboards

The Mets, as a team, have not had an impressive offensive season so far. Through Sunday’s game the team has scored 635 runs, 12th in the NL. However one Met is high on many of the statistical leaderboards, and by one advanced metric he is having the best batting season of anyone in the league. [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 9, Phillies 4 (9/17/18)

Michael Conforto had a career game and Zack Wheeler completed seven innings to lead the Mets to a 9-4 win over the Phillies Monday night in Philadelphia. Conforto had a two-run single in the fifth, an RBI double in the seventh and a three-run homer in the ninth to lead the offense. It was the [...]

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Mets Minors: Dominic Smith’s outlook only gets worse

Back in 2013 the Mets selected Dominic Smith with their 11th overall pick. A pick that meant the Mets could not sign a Top-tier Free Agent. A pick that meant the Mets were spared the dive bomb decline of Michael Bourn, who had been coming off the best year of his career. The same draft [...]

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