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 [...]
The entire Mets season was played out in microcosm in this maddening loss to Pittsburgh. Manager Mickey Callaway was outmaneuvered by Pirates' manager Clint Hurdle, the bullpen failed and there simply was not enough offense. Zack Wheeler started for the Mets and was absolutely stellar through seven innings. He allowed five hits, walked one and [...]
The Sandy Alderson edition
When a team gets bad off-the-field news, the game on the field becomes secondary. When the sobering news of Sandy Alderson's cancer diagnosis and leave of absence was announced, tonight's game took a back seat. Early on, it appeared as a series of squiggly lines and jumbled emotions. Steven Matz squared off against Chad Kuhl, [...]
We’re all trying to make sense of how the Mets are in the position that they are today. Everyone has their theories and one that refuses to die is that the farm system has been bad in the past, bad in the present and bad in the future. Let’s take a look at the guys [...]
In late April and early May we lost games because of some bad starting pitching. For a few weeks in May we lost games because of a leaky bullpen. Then in late May into June our bats went silent. In a rare game tonight where we scored enough runs to win and pitched well enough [...]
Brandon Nimmo was hit by a pitch three times on Sunday. On one of those he intentionally threw his elbow - covered in protective gear - into the pitch and the umpire correctly did not award him the base. Another one he did not move a muscle to get out of the way. Still, this [...]