Perhaps no hitter in the National League is more likely to pull a ball on the ground than Kevin Plawecki. He hits a grounder in 61% of his ABs and he has a 57.6 Pull%. Both numbers are top 10 marks in the league and guys who do one don't necessarily do the other. It's [...]
The Mets salvaged the final game of the series with the Marlins, earning a 5-2 victory Sunday. The win vaulted the Mets out of last place, as they leapfrogged the Marlins in the standings. If you imagined in your mind what a game between two teams battling for last place would look like, well – [...]
It’s July and the Mets are in last place. Anyone who said they saw that coming at the start of the season is full of it. But regardless of the insanity of it all, now’s the time to deal with the reality of the situation. And last place teams in July better be rebuilding or [...]
5-21. Five-and-twenty ... (wait for it) ...-one. That was the Mets' record for the month of June, 2018. 5-21. The Mets ended the third-losingest month in their history, with a whimper, not a bang. Having screwed up my schedule and not realizing this game was scheduled for a 4:10 PM first pitch, I ended up [...]
Yeah, yeah, we lost again. This time to the last place team. The one who traded away all their best players in the off-season. The one we'll be trading standing places with by Sunday if we don't right this sinking ship. Ace and constant topic of Yankee fan speculation (no you can't have him, especially [...]
It is easy to nitpick the New York Mets and everything that has gone wrong this season. Their offensive performance has been absent, the bullpen has been as reliable as the New Jersey Transit system, and at times have even been mismanaged to the point of making someone want to pull their hair out. This [...]
Amid the seemingly endless string of bad news this season for Mets fans is one glimmer of hope - a potential comeback by our captain, David Wright. The face of the Mets franchise hasn't played in a Major League game since 2016. Since being diagnosed with spinal stenosis back in early 2015, Wright has undergone [...]
Our bullpen has been a disaster of late. Who's to blame? Management for bringing back Jerry Blevins and signing Anthony Swarzak instead of other available free agents? Coaching for overusing the bullpen early in the season with the "two times through the lineup" strategy? The starters for not going further into games? The relievers themselves [...]
A long time ago, a young pup of a blogger compared the beginning of the Sandy Alderson era of Mets baseball to 1980, the beginning of the Frank Cashen era. Well, we’ve now come full circle. The sad end of Alderson’s tenure as General Manager now coincides with a feeling that this season is much [...]