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 [...]
With the Mets offseason drifting toward a close and a possible Dillon Gee trade lurking, a curveball was thrown at Mets fans. According to Ken Rosenthal, the Mets were apparently in talks with the Washington Nationals and Tampa Bay Rays over a potential three-team deal that included Ian Desmond, Ben Zobrist, and, of course, Noah [...]
It was cold. I mean it was really cold. When your intrepid columnist left the friendly confines of suburban Jersey for an ad hoc trip to Queens for the Second Annual Queens Baseball Conference – the QBC – it was twelve degrees. That’s 12, as in “one-two.” There were important football games looming in the [...]
In case you’re not into International Free Agents you may have missed that a number of teams have hit the baseball lottery thanks to signing Cuban players. You don’t need to take my words on faith, you can simply look at Yasiel Puig and Jose Abreu. Yoan Moncada is the latest in a series of [...]
Back in late November Mets360’s own Scott Ferguson wrote about L.J. Mazzilli, who ranked 30th on our list of prospects. In case you haven’t already seen it, you can read that full breakdown here. Mazzilli had a very promising 2014 season in which he posted a .301/.361/.440 line with 44 extra-base hits split evenly between [...]
2014 was the year blue and orange were supposed to begin supplanting pinstripes across New York. It didn’t happen. Larger expectations are on the horizon for 2015 with a potentially devastating starting pitching staff and bullpen developing. In terms of a legitimate playoff run, most positions are adequately staffed. But shortstop remains the no. 1 [...]
There were reports of the Mets almost acquiring the Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond, but at a hefty cost. He only has one year left on his contract before he hits free agency, which was probably one of the biggest factors in Alderson not going through with the trade. Desmond would be an upgrade over Wilmer [...]