Well, that kind of stunk. The Mets traveled across the state of Florida to take on the power-laden Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin: a three-and-a-half-hour bus ride to a place they hadn’t played in 27 years. As Adam Rubin pointed out on Twitter, there was a brawl that day. In a spring training game. Before [...]

WAR, standing for Wins Above Replacement (player), is part of the alphabet soup of Sabermetric terms that Mets’ manager Terry Collins has no interest in. This is unfortunate since the stat has its value despite some nagging flaws. Its biggest shortcoming is that it depends on certain defensive stats to try and determine how much [...]

The New York Mets have two promising players on their bench this year. Both Wilmer Flores and Juan Lagares have had playing time in the majors, and have performed decently. While they could be starting, the Mets were worried about their offensive consistency throughout the year. Flores is not great defensively, but he is not [...]

A good friend, Ethan Ritter Schrott and I have wanted to co-write a series of articles for some time.  He is an ardent Yankee fan and I’m a dyed in the wool Met fan and we’ve had arguments, since our college days, about which team was better.  Those arguments are always useless, as a fan [...]

In 2015 from the beginning of the year until the end of July, the Mets hit 89 homers in 103 games and had a 53-50 mark. After the acquisition of Yoenis Cespedes, the Mets hit 88 homers in 59 games and went 37-22. Obviously there was more to the Mets’ hot streak at the end [...]

We're just about two weeks away from the Mets’ season opener in Kansas City, and the excitement is ramping up. There's excitement that comes with the start of any new baseball season, regardless of your team's prospects. This year is a rare one for Mets fans, though. It's the start of a season coming off [...]

1982 DONRUSS PROOF MOOKIE WILSON The card of the week is not really a card but a proof of a card. It is a 1982 Donruss Mookie Wilson. We call these blues in the print industry. This is the front-only from the Wilson card cut to size. It would have been used by the printer [...]

With just 17 days to go until opening day, the Mets coaching staff and front office are busy making their final judgments before finalizing the 25-man roster for opening day. For the first time in years, Port St. Lucie has seen very little competition. The starting lineup and rotation are virtually set in stone, unless [...]

A year ago at this time, we heard a lot of palaver about how hungry to return to the World Series the Kansas City Royals were. They were seen as fluky pennant winners in 2014 and were picked by some to finish as low as fourth in the AL Central in 2015, but in spring [...]

For those of us who believe that the efficient use of Sabermetrics can improve a team’s chance of winning the remarks by Mets’ manager Terry Collins last month were dismaying. In a USA Today article he said this: “I’m not sure how much an old-school guy can add to the game today. It’s become a [...]