There’s been some grumbling lately about the lack of production from the team’s corner outfielders. And when you take a look at their lines so far, it’s not hard to understand why. Michael Cuddyer has a .695 OPS while Curtis Granderson checks in with a .690 mark. When the two guys signed to (relatively) big-money [...]
2005 TOPPS HERITAGE BRETT HARPER So who's your favorite Harper? Perhaps you melt for Atticus Finch, have preordered your copy of Go Set a Watchman, and can think only of Harper Lee. Or maybe you're a publishing nerd with a soft spot for John and James Harper, 19th century forebears of the Harper & Brothers/Harper [...]
Bartolo Colon put the "sink" in Cinco de Mayo. And the Orioles were sunk. Colon pitched masterfully, leaving the game with two outs in the eighth, having struck out nine men and walked none. The offense came alive -- for them, anyway -- with a three-run uprising in the fourth to give the Mets just [...]
The New York Mets have typically based their winning teams off of the sole component of starting pitching. From the glory days of 1969 and 1973, to the dominant years of the mid 1980’s, heck, even the 1999-2000 and 2006 Mets had top-five team ERA’s. This tradition has carried over into 2015 with a 16-10 [...]
One good and one great article on exit speeds.
In games the Mets have won so far in 2015, they have walked 60 times and struck out an even 100. In those games the team line has been .260/.340/.395 with 13 home runs. In games lost by the Mets, the team has walked just 18 times, and struck out 80. That team batting line [...]
What if during Spring Training someone gave you the following bullpen line: 65 IP, 2.77 ERA, 12 SV, 20 BB, 71 Ks and a 0.923 WHIP If given three guesses, in order they likely would have been: Bobby Parnell, Jeurys Familia, Jenrry Mejia. Parnell would have come first because you might have assumed it would [...]
This season we’ve seen Rafael Montero, Kevin Plawecki, Jack Leathersich and Dilson Herrera ascend from AAA to the majors. The two biggest names still in Sandy Alderson’s back pocket are still out in Vegas and they have taken things up several notches recently. I’m talking, of course, about Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz. They are [...]
The past couple of months have been an adventure for Noah Syndergaard. It started in January, with Triple-A Las Vegas manager Wally Backman saying that Steven Matz is the “best pitching prospect” that the Mets have to offer, according to Bill Price of the New York Daily News. Backman would go on to say that [...]
Back-to-back 1-0 shutouts for the first time since 1973