With another season of signing Daniel Murphy to an arbitration deal (worth $8 million), the Mets have their second baseman for one more season, if the team decides to not trade him. Since becoming a starter in 2012, Murphy has been a consistent fixture in the Mets starting lineup, Murphy has hit over .285, posted [...]
Throughout history there have been players who put up fluke seasons in the majors. Undoubtedly, you’ve got a mental image in your head right now of some such season. Perhaps it’s 2000 Darin Erstad, who put up an 8.7 fWAR (next best season, 3.3 fWAR) or 1970 Billy Grabarkewitz and his 6.1 fWAR (next best [...]
The Mets have had 14 different pitchers in their history to post a 5.0 bWAR or greater in a season, including Matt Harvey in 2013. None of those 14 missed an entire season after putting up such a dominating performance. The closest we have is Johan Santana, who missed the entire 2011 season after notching [...]
Mets catcher Travis d'Arnaud had a rough go of it in 2014 on both sides of the ball. His early offensive struggles were well documented, as was his demotion and very strong comeback. His great second half went a long way towards putting to bed doubts about his ability to hit at the highest level. [...]
Do you get a thrill when you see a Mets hat in a movie or on a TV show? Do you enjoy when Keith Hernandez spots an actor or politician in the stands at Citi rooting on the Mets? Let’s dust off the list of celebrity Mets fans and take a peek. While this list [...]
To most fans, this Mets offseason has been a disappointment. The Mets will trade Dillon Gee, most likely for prospects and/or a bullpen arm and will have signed Michael Cuddyer and John Mayberry Jr. That doesn’t seem like much, but the Mets didn’t need all that much offensively when you think about their offensive numbers [...]
The 2015 Mets have a weak link and it's not what you think. Mets fans want to start the season with a complete team, free of glaring weaknesses at any given position. Every third blog post has been about upgrading over Wilmer Flores, as if mortgaging the future for a proven veteran shortstop to replace [...]
For the third week of January, there’s an awful lot of baseball talk around here. First there was the QBC on Saturday. Then, last night, there was a gathering called Pitch Talks at B.B. King’s Blues Club in mid-town Manhattan. The Pitch Talkers included – but were not limited to -- FOX/MLB TV bowtie man [...]
This past Tuesday marked an anniversary in Mets history. It was ten years ago on January 13th, that the New York Mets made a huge splash in the baseball free agent market and signed outfielder Carlos Beltran. Prior to his stint in Queens, Beltran had spent seven solid years with the Kansas City Royals before [...]
Welcome to the third edition of our annual projection series. The idea here is that you already have the critical, non-biased computer projections of ZiPS and Steamer and here we have a bunch of fans give subjective predictions to balance things out. Does being a fan of a team give you insight that the projections [...]
New York has a total of eight sports teams, two of which are part of Major League Baseball. The Yankees and the Mets have a rivalry dating back to 1962, when the Mets came into the sport, and has become one of the more entertaining rivalries in baseball. Every year, the Subway Series is held [...]