As the season dwindles down and 90 percent of the Mets community begins to shift their focus toward football, school, or any other occupation of interest, there are still die-hard fans that watch this team through the torturous weeks of September. These fans have also witnessed two monumental collapses in ’07 and ’08 that were [...]
The preliminary rounds of “expectation management” have begun. The 2015 MLB schedules have been released and naturally, any fan who roots for a non-contender shifts his or her vision shifts in that direction. As Met fans, many of us have been playing “wait-til-next-year” since the beginning of June, having grown disgusted with the broken promise [...]
When speaking about the future of the Mets pitching rotation, a lot of names get thrown around. Dillon Gee's name usually gets mentioned as a possible fourth or fifth starter, or perhaps even trade bait to help get a left fielder or shortstop. Gee has had an up-and-down year in 2014, partially to blame by [...]
In their last 13 games, the Mets are 8-5. While they’ve benefited from playing nine games in this stretch against Philadelphia, Miami and Cincinnati, the 2014 club is in no position to turn its nose up when it comes to wins regardless of the quality of the opponent. The offense has averaged slightly over five [...]
At 27 years old, Kirk Nieuwenhuis can hardly be considered a young player, but in 50 games this season, he is finally starting to come into his own. Yes, it's a small sample size, and his .271/.373/.518 line is a little bit BABIP-driven, but he certainly passes the eye test as having improved over the [...]
Remember the August 3rd game against the San Francisco Giants, when Terry Collins decided to rest Lucas Duda and Daniel Murphy against Madison Bumgarner? The offense only mustered two hits for the game, and scored zero runs. With Murphy going down with a calf injury, it seemed that the offense would struggle to put together [...]
No matter how closely you follow the Mets this or any year, there’s always things to learn. On this list of 10 things – if you’re being honest with yourself there’s at least one thing you did not know yesterday. If you knew all 10 – drop me a note and come write for the [...]
Full disclosure: The idea for this article was blatantly stolen from my co-writer on Mets360.com, Brian Joura. While he focused on the offensive side, let’s now take a look at the pitching side. It’s not easy to pull up exclusively late season promotions, so the criteria I used was pitchers age 23 or younger, making [...]