When you run a baseball team in the biggest market in the world and your budget in 2015 is 19th in the sport, it’s a little insulting to the fanbase to shell out nearly 1/10th of that budget to a player who will be turning 36 before the start of the season, and who played [...]
Right now, MLB.com is in the middle of posting their top ten prospects at each position. So far five positions have been reviewed: right-handed pitcher, left-handed pitcher, catcher, first base, and second base. The Mets have a prospect on each of those lists and might have one on each list. The only position that the [...]
In Juan Lagares’ first three seasons in the Mets organization – from 2006 to 2008 – he committed 73 errors in 195 games. He was also a shortstop. In 2009, the decision was made to move Lagares to the outfield, and now he’s regarded as the best defensive centerfielder in major league baseball. Lagares’ journey [...]
Finally things started to click for Cesar Puello, a player who has been playing for the Mets organization since he was 17, in 2013, where the 22 year-old hit .326, slugged 16 homers, drove in 73 runs and stole 24 bags. With this promising campaign, it looked that the Mets were going to have their [...]
There’s a school of thought that goes if you repeat a lie loud enough and often enough – it becomes truth. This is, unfortunately, not exclusive to one walk of life. Where it rears its ugly head in baseball is with the notion that you need to have multiple lefty relievers, with at least one [...]
Left-handed reliever Dana Eveland signed with the Red Sox earlier this week, removing an option for the Mets in their pursuit of an additional lefty in the bullpen. Eveland was signed by the Mets in February 2014 and called up in June of last season. He pitched very effectively for the team until he was [...]
In 2012 the Mets debuted Matt Harvey and the following year they introduced Zack Wheeler. Then last year the club brought up Jacob deGrom. Harvey and Wheeler came with all types of hype and deGrom wasn’t nearly as highly regarded. This time last year, if you asked the fan base which Mets pitcher was going [...]
Yoan Moncada is the latest phenom to defect from Cuba. At 19 years old, Moncada is about as good of a prospect as one could hope for. With his tools, if he was a high school or college baseball player, Moncada would clearly be a potential top 10 draft selection, commanding a substantial bonus amount [...]
On paper Daniel Murphy is a good, but not great offensive player and below average fielder. He’s in his walk year and the Mets have two exciting young players who could take over the keystone in Wilmer Flores and the young prospect Dilson Herrera. For these reasons, many Mets fans and sportswriters have been lobbying [...]
Ticket sales are up 19.26 percent over last year, according to Mets executive vice president Lou DePaoli. The numbers represent what would be an astonishing outlier for a team that's failed to add any high-priced talent this offseason or post a winning record since 2008, the two primary drivers of attendance spikes for baseball teams. [...]
From the beginning of the offseason, the rumor mill has been buzzing over the need for shortstop in the Mets infield. One by one, the names went flying around. The Mets seemed close at times to making a move just to see it fall apart when the asking price was too high. No one can [...]
This time last year we were shocked we were still having the Lucas Duda or Ike Davis debate. It may have taken two years too long to decide but the good news is that Sandy Alderson held on to the right guy, as Duda turned in the best year of his career and Davis did [...]