After finally reaching my goal of having more predictions right than wrong in 2022 – it was back to reality with the picks last year. While fewer than half right, there were six correct predictions, which is a solid score, given the self-imposed mandate to not make safe picks. But no one wants to read [...]
This time last year, the expectation of most was that the Mets were going to top 95 wins. That didn’t happen and this year those expectations are considerably lower. Here’s a sampling of views of the 2024 Mets from national sites: FanGraphs: 81-81 CBS Sports: 81-81 The Athletic: 80-82 USA Today: 78-84 Gambling site FanDuel [...]
Here in the Piedmont we’re at the time of year where it rains every day, which on one hand stinks because rain makes me depressed but on the other hand it washes away the pollen, so it’s not without its uses. It’s just too bad that the rain extends further north and has washed out [...]
It was a nice comeback season for J.D. Martinez in 2023, as he rebounded from a 117 OPS+ at age 34 to a 134 mark last year. With the Dodgers replacing him with Shohei Ohtani, Martinez hit free agency, where he didn’t quite find the market he imagined. He remained unsigned until the end of [...]
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Entering Spring Training, the door was wide open for Mark Vientos to be in the Mets' starting lineup long term, particularly at Designated Hitter. The Mets were willing to try some of their young prospects, to be a fixture in the lineup for the 2024 season, and Vientos was one of their hopefuls. However, he [...]
Spring Training 2023 was an entirely different world for the New York Mets. We had two veteran Aces who had proven track records of success, we were the most expensive team in baseball and the Mets were supposed to be World Series contenders and the Mets had four top prospects at the cusp of the [...]
After an All-Star season in 2022, Starling Marte was nowhere close to that status in 2023, thanks in large part to double groin surgery he had in November of ’22. Marte tried to play thru the pain and discomfort but was just a shadow of himself, both at the plate and in the field. Oddly, [...]
Spring Training 2024 ends tomorrow, as the New York Mets face off against the New York Yankees at 1 pm, the Mets lineup seems to have sorted itself out. But not without some last-minute help. Batting order, at least any sensible batting order, does not have significant effects on a team’s ability to score runs [...]
My opinion last year with Francisco Alvarez was that he should have made the club out of Spring Training, getting most of his ABs early on as a DH and then receiving more time behind the plate as the year progressed. And people laughed. His defense was nowhere close to MLB-ready, they claimed, and the [...]
Every MLB team faces adversity. And those challenges can come from injures or under-performance or questionable lineup/roster decisions. Spotrac tracks injuries and last year, MLB clubs had between 13-35 IL moves each, with dollars lost to the IL ranging from $9.5-$82.1 million. The Mets were tied for 11th with 25 IL moves and ranked fourth [...]
The Mets closed 2023 by going 23-22, thanks in no small part to the finishes by Jeff McNeil and Brandon Nimmo. While McNeil was a major disappointment the first four months of the season, Nimmo was having a solid year, with a .784 OPS thru the end of July. But the final two months of [...]