Saturday the Mets acquired Addison Reed from the Diamondbacks and they made a claim on Marc Rzepczynski (Scrabble), although thankfully up until this point they’ve been unable to come to terms on a deal with the Padres for him. It’s remarkable how many transactions Sandy Alderson has made in general the last 10 months or [...]
Only three Mets collected hits today, which has been a far cry from how things have been going. Even with a loss yesterday, the Mets still were able to score four runs on eight hits. It was just an unfortunate day where the team couldn't seem to get anything going against Joe Kelly and the [...]
There's been a lot of rumbling over the years about major league baseball's divisional format and the impact it has on postseason play. Specifically, guaranteeing a spot in the playoffs to each division winner has led to instances of teams in strong divisions missing the playoffs even though they had better records than some division [...]
In the early days of the internet a popular worldwide discussion system was called Usenet. It consisted of newsgroups. It started up in the early 1980s and still exists today. The plethora of social media sites has made Usenet close to irrelevant but – call it tradition – I still pop in and look at [...]
An exhausted bullpen could not handle a second straight extra-inning game, as the Red Sox exploded for three runs in the 10th inning for a 6-4 win Friday night. Logan Verrett, pitching in back-to-back games just days after going 8 IP as a starter, surrendered a 2-0 lead and a win for Matt Harvey. He [...]
Remember this cover story? Sports Illustrated wasn’t alone. The Sporting News, ESPN the magazine and pretty much every baseball season preview anointed the Washington Nationals the 2015 World Series favorite. Nearly every baseball writer aside from this one picked the Nationals to run away with the National League East. Who could blame them? They won [...]
Normally when you score seven, five, four, and five runs in a four game series, you're looking to pull at least one or two wins away. Not the Philadelphia Phillies. They had the unfortunate task of taking on the hottest team in baseball. But it wasn't always so. From June 30th to July 4th the [...]