Let's go back to Mid-March when the Mets’ front office, as well as fans, thought of the Mets potential bullpen as a strength rather than a weakness as it had been in past years. Opening Series came and went. Bobby Parnell went down, three losses, and eleven runs were allowed by the bullpen. The bullpen [...]
The Mets’ road trip through Philadelphia, Denver and Miami – which started out so promisingly – has dissolved into a bitter hash of recriminations and rain. The hope was that they could continue their of-late fine play and bring home a winning trip. Instead, they have to scramble in these last two games against the [...]
Daniel Murphy is the only Mets player with at least 75 at-bats who is hitting over .300. Juan Lagares has missed a good portion of the early season, so his numbers are still a little skewed based on small sample size. Murphy is leading the team with eight doubles, he’s second with 19 runs scored, [...]
“I got the key to the Highway Billed out and bound to go. I’m gonna leave here running; Walking is most too slow.” –Big Bill Broonzy Travis d'Arnaud is going to be an exciting player...a quick review of the tag he applied to Matt Carpenter in the 3-2 victory against the St. Louis Cardinals during [...]
The 2014 season in Las Vegas had been headlined by storylines of pitching performances. Met fans in Flushing sit salivating over Syndergaard, Montero and even deGrom but the 51’s also have some hitting. We mentioned Allan Dykstra, who is still hitting comfortably over 1.000 (OPS) on the year, and the majority of the team sport [...]
Lady Luck is a cruel mistress. Just as easily as she can make you look good (see Juan Lagares hitting .338/.360/.507) she can make you look like a fool (see Curtis Granderson hitting .173/.281/.279). Her best and most redeeming quality (depending on how you look at it) is that no matter the upswings and downswings [...]
Here we go again. Starting pitcher Jenrry Mejia was absolutely lit up in Colorado last night in the Mets' 11-10 loss to the Rockies. All of the damage against Mejia occurred in a horrid fifth inning in which he gave up eight runs, capped by a grand slam by Nolan Arenado. It was a rough [...]
Omar Quintanilla (.298) has a higher wOBA than David Wright (.295) after a month of the season. All Mets fans have been acting like an ostrich, burying their heads in the sand rather that admit the obvious – that a lot of the team’s offensive struggles can be traced to Wright. There was hope that [...]