With spring training in full bloom much of the focus around Mets land has been about things pertaining to the major league team – Who will be the lefty reliever now that Josh Edgin is lost to Tommy John surgery?; Can Wilmer Flores play a good enough shortstop to merit the everyday job?; How will [...]
Throughout the offseason, there were two main areas of concern, and General Manager Sandy Alderson did not address either one. The first area was the bullpen’s need for another left-handed reliever to compliment Josh Edgin. It has been apparent in the past few years that using one left-handed reliever has not worked out, as Tim [...]
Anyone familiar with the children’s tale Henny Penny knows the moral of the story: Beware of those who predict calamity, especially with zero justification. We would be wise to remember the lessons of Henny Penny when it comes to the “calamity” of not having multiple lefty relievers on the team. Few things will have less [...]
Zack Wheeler was scratched from his Grapefruit League start against the Nationals today because of what has been deemed elbow tendinitis. Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson didn't seem too concerned, claiming that Wheeler pitched with the same issue during stretches of last season. We won't touch on just how alarming that latter statement was, but [...]
Nieuwenhuis gets all of the attention for opening with a four-hit game but he has plenty of company.
After winning back to back division titles, our Mets went into the 1971 season with high hopes. Unfortunately, despite a solid 90 or so wins, the Mets were outplayed by the Pittsburgh Pirates en route to a World Series Championship. It was a disappointment, yet the team had to hold to those high expectations as [...]
Too many times in this blog I've written about the foolishness of the LOOGY approach to baseball. In most of those, the focus has been on the unbelievably crappy overall performance of the Mets' lefty relievers under the Alderson/Collins regime. Today, let's focus on the righty relievers. In 2014, the average NL righty had a [...]
Over the past five seasons, the Mets have seen their share of roster churn. Between trades, free agency, DFAs and non-tenders, the league is well represented by former Mets players. Among them are plenty of marginal players, but also some high quality players – some of whom may be better than what we currently have [...]
Today is game #10 of the Mets’ Spring Training schedule. For all the grousing that spring camp is too long, I offer up the fact that we're already a third of the way through our allotment of silly games that don’t count. And thank goodness they don’t, because Mets fans would become even more suicidal [...]