"Saturday. In the park. I think it was the Fourth of July." That blissful song was in my head as I watched the Mets play at Dodgers Stadium a few hours ago. I wasn't expecting much. I figured since Matt Harvey and Zach Grienke were pitching it would be a light offensive affair, and for [...]
Really, Mets360 readers, what's left to say? It wouldn't be completely honest to say that it was hard to not write some angry tirade about the team in this space. It was pretty easy, actually. That's because I've joined many Mets fans in moving past anger and into something much worse: apathy. This isn't uncommon. [...]
With teams having hundreds of assets (mostly players) and dynamic varying needs it is pretty challenging to say this team should trade this player, or these players, to that team for such and such a player. Yet still we who write about baseball persist in thinking up trades and reasons for why they could work [...]
Back over .500 - bring on Greinke! Well, only if 2008 Brad Penny isn't available...
Despite a mostly lousy month of June, the Mets were fresh off a road sweep of the Cincinnati Reds and were coming back home where they have flourished. Daniel Murphy was coming back to add a spark to a moribund lineup. Mets fans were feeling optimistic for a moment. Then the Chicago Cubs, a team [...]
It’s no secret that the Mets offense has been terrible for the better part of the season, and that deficiency has only been magnified over the past few weeks. In the past seven games entering play Thursday, the Mets hit .193/.278/.278 as a team, with a .249 wOBA. That’s an almost historically bad week at [...]
The New York Post, of all things, published an article yesterday, actually painting a hopeful picture for the return of David Wright later this summer. While we all know this is designed to sell newsprint more than anything, it also holds out a branch that could possibly pull the Mets out of the offensive funk [...]
A listless 6-1 loss completed a desultory 3-game sweep of the Mets at the hands of the up-and-coming Cubs. While hope was pinned on young Jacob deGrom to deliver the Mets from the doldrums, he wasn't up to the task on an overcast afternoon. deGrom surrendered four runs and seven hits in a bare five-and-a-third [...]
Few people batted an eye when the Mets sent Dilson Herrera to the minors. After all, he was riding a 3-31 streak. As we all know, that’s the worse hitting streak in the history of the world and no MLB-caliber player ever experiences anything like that or they would volunteer to go to the minors [...]