There's been a lot of speculation from baseball writers and wishful thinking from Yankee fans that the Mets will make ace Jacob deGrom available in trade next month. Based on the packages of top rated prospects received for other controllable ace pitchers like Chris Sale and Gerrit Cole in recent years, it's a tempting proposition, [...]
In the early days of baseball, everyone had a cool nickname - Old Hoss Radbourn, Three Finger Mordecai Brown, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Kennesaw Mountain Landis, et al. Modern MLB seems to be lacking in this area and the Mets haven't had any sort of lasting nickname since the 80s teams with Doc Gooden, Nails Dykstra [...]
The Mets erased their recent three-game win streak by losing their third straight in Colorado, 6-4. The biggest problem in this game was not the six, but the four as the Mets grounded into five double plays, managing to squeeze just four runs out of 15 base runners. The Mets jumped out to a quick [...]
A back and forth game between the Colorado Rockies and New York Mets tilted in favor of the Rockies, as they defeated the Mets 10-8 for the second straight game. Seth Lugo, who is usually on his game while on the mound, was not himself against the Rockies. Way too often his bread and butter [...]
Michael Conforto and Brandon Nimmo were both born in March of 1993. Nimmo joined the Mets’ organization first because he went into pro ball directly out of high school while Conforto spent three years in college. However, Conforto made the majors first, due mostly to his strong hitting in the minors but also because Nimmo [...]
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Despite putting up a fight in the later innings, the New York Mets were unable to get over another poor start by Jason Vargas, as the lost to the Colorado Rockies 10-8. You could tell from the onset of this game that it was going to be the type of back and forth slugfest we’ve [...]
The Mets bullpen has been erratic, to say the least, so far this season. One reliever is making a case as a valuable setup man, and that would be right-hander Robert Gsellman. His numbers so far are quite good. Gsellman has been a workhorse, appearing in 32 games, pitching 42 innings and posting a 5-1 [...]