Gary Cohen mentioned in Sunday’s broadcast against the Dodgers that Jacob deGrom is sitting on an impressive 1.48 ERA at home in 2015. In 2014 it was just a touch above at 1.70, for a combined career average of 1.59. That is utter domination, folks. His combined 2.05 ERA for the season is now second-best [...]
Clippard has a 2.79 ERA and a 1.190 WHIP in 38.2 IP for the A's this season with 17 Saves.
Back in 2012 the Mets traded R.A. Dickey, Mike Nickeas and Josh Thole to Toronto for John Buck and three minor leaguers. R.A. Dickey had just won the Cy Young award and was the knuckle-balling darling of baseball and Sandy Alderson traded him for a handful of magic beans. Those magical beans have proven pretty [...]
In Sandy Alderson's press briefing on Thursday he touched on a number of trade related subjects. And, of course, we have to dismiss much of what he says because his history (and that of most of his fellow GMs) is that he will often say one thing and do another. After all, Michael Conforto wasn't [...]
Jeurys Familia blew his second save in a week. The Mets didn't hit all that much against Zack Grienke. In fact, they had no extra-base hit at all, technically. And they won, anyway. Juan Uribe blasted a ball off the wall in the bottom of the 10th, scoring Curtis Granderson, who had led off with [...]
Sandy Alderson finally made a trade and acquired two veteran hitters in Kelly Johnson and Juan Uribe. The Mets were in need of some offensive pieces, and got two of them from their division rivals. As we continue to approach the trade deadline, Alderson said that he is still pursuing big moves to upgrade the [...]
Just about everything went right Saturday night. The new-look Mets lineup saw replacements Michael Conforto and Kirk Nieuwenhuis get four-hit games, import Kelly Johnson get two – including a homer – and struggling slugger Lucas Duda crack two long balls. The only thing we could have hoped for and didn’t get was a breakout for [...]
Wow, just wow. For just the second time since the All-Star break the Mets scored more than three runs, and boy did they ever score more than three runs. The 15 the Mets put on the board Saturday were just four less than the entire amount they cobbled together in their first two series back [...]
Late last night the Mets finalized a deal with the Atlanta Braves that saw them acquire 3B Juan Uribe and OF/INF Kelly Johnson for pitching prospects Robert Whalen and John Gant. Despite being sardonically praised by some, it's generally regarded as a solid move for the team. The Braves even kicked in a bit of [...]
Fred and Jeff Wilpon are probably the worst owners in professional baseball at this time, possibly the worst in all of professional sports. They are immensely unpopular with the fan base of their own team. Whenever Mets fans discuss the Wilpons I am reminded of the line Buddy Hackett used to use referring to sportscaster [...]