Jeremy Hefner is doing well in his Tommy John rehab…if anybody cares. Not to be rude, but it seems that nobody really cares about Hefner and his Tommy John surgery. When Matt Harvey had the same surgery, all eyes were on him (and they still are). But Hefner has seems to have completely fallen under [...]
Mike Draper and the mad men of the '93 Mets.
As the season starts to drift away once again, the Mets must start to take a step back, take stock, and decide who has delivered and who has not. The pitching has actually been worse than expected, ranking very well among the league’s best in ERA, but terrible in walks issued. Due to the extreme [...]
The Mets went to Atlanta last night having lost four of their last six games. It’s never good news when the Mets travel to Georgia – it hasn’t been since that chamber of horrors opened in 1997 – and particularly bad when they go in reeling. So it came as no shock that a pretty [...]
Monday night's performance was fairly typical for Zach Wheeler this year. He pitched a fairly short outing of 6.1 innings because of high pitch counts, accounting for 113 pitches thrown, five walks, four strikeouts, and one earned run. On a better team, that could have easily led to a win, but Wheeler plays for the [...]
The Mets' glory days of the 1980's seem even further away this afternoon, with news of the passing of former GM Frank Cashen. Cashen arrived in New York in the winter of 1980, at the behest of new owners Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon. He took on the daunting task of reinvigorating this moribund franchise, [...]
Something about the Bradenton Marauders brings out the best in Michael Fulmer. For the year, Fulmer has a 4.43 ERA but Sunday afternoon he threw seven shutout innings, permitted just three hits and fanned eight in the process. In three starts this season against Bradenton, Fulmer has yet to allow a run, a span covering [...]
It has been less than two weeks since the Mets announced their round of minor league callups, ans so far at the AA level, both Steven Matz and Dilson Herrera are tearing it up, albeit in a small sample size. Saturday night, Matz was the talk of the farm system, coming up with coming up [...]
Last night in Pittsburgh a beautiful thing happened. Jon Niese, though a bit erratic at times, pitched effectively through six innings and handed a lead to a Mets bullpen that sealed the win. A win is always great, but what made this one special was how it was closed out and what it portends. The [...]