The Mets figured to have 2B as an area to focus on in the offseason once they traded Asdrubal Cabrera. But Jeff McNeil, who has always hit in the minors but who turned it up a notch with power this season, came to the big leagues and has continued his strong play. Now everyone is [...]
Well, all good things must come to an end. So it was with Jason Vargas's recent "hot streak," which crumbled over his ears in the course of three-and-a-third innings. To be fair, though, this wasn't anybody's best night. The Mets actually had a decent lead at the start. Todd Frazier led off the second with [...]
Jeff McNeil is not going to win the Rookie of the Year award in the NL this year, despite the fact he has been a hitting machine at the plate for the Mets. He was only called up in July, so he will have less than half a season with the team. Even if he [...]
The great Baltimore manager Earl Weaver once famously said "The secret to baseball is simple: starting pitching and three-run homers." The Mets employed that philosophy to a T on Labor Day, 2018. Jacob deGrom opened this series in Los Angeles historically, but inauspiciously. With one out in the bottom of the first, ol' pal Justin [...]
Before the season I ranked the Top 25 players in the Met farm system and now that the minor league year is just about over it is time to provide grades for those players based on how they performed. Andres Gimenez, SS: B+ Gimenez not only hit well enough to earn himself a mid-year [...]
The Dodgers have beaten the spit out of the Mets going back to 2016. Here are the results: 2018 6/24 - Dodgers 8, Mets 7 - 13 hits, 7 HR 6/23 - Dodgers 8, Mets 3 - 9 hits, 2 HR 6/22 - Dodgers 5, Mets 2 - 6 hits, 2 HR 2017 8/6 - [...]
Noah Syndergaard pitched his best game of the season to lead the Mets to a 4-1 win over the Giants for the series win in San Francisco. Syndergaard notched the first complete game of his career and was in command from the first pitch, striking out 11 and allowing just two hits over nine innings. [...]
After starting the season in the minors, Zack Wheeler places right now in the top 10 in the National League in both IP (160.1) and ERA (3.37) and he has career-best numbers in WHIP (1.185) and K/BB ratio (3.18). But there are at least as many people still dubious about his ability to continue this [...]