The 2014 Mets sit at 13-11; a welcome surprise to start a season that's probably more important than anyone associated with the team is willing to admit. Still, the driving factor behind the team's early success has been solid pitching. The hitting, on the other hand, has left much to be desired. The Mets' offense [...]
“Lord, that I’m standin’ at the crossroad, babe I believe I’m sinkin’ down” —Robert Johnson Well actually, it would be more correct to say, Curtis Granderson is sinkin’ up. The reason for that statement is that Terry Collins has moved him up to the number two position in the batting order. So, he is out [...]
A few weeks back I penned a column lauding the decent start Ruben Tejada was off to. And as if it was a foreshadowing of things to come, Tejada has now gone into a miserable slump and is once again losing time to backup Omar Quintanilla. Tejada is now sporting a paltry .200/.324/.217 slash line [...]
The starting rotation has been the fuel behind the Mets early season success. In the last 10 games, the starter ERA is 1.84, and the bullpen has backed them up enabling the team to win seven of them. More importantly, the Mets have been in each game, for the most part, by the time the [...]
April trades are fairly rare in baseball. This is because teams, for the most part, don’t know what they are going to be yet. Are they going to be in the playoff race, working to develop a team for the future or be totally out of it and looking to make trades for the future [...]
From the New York Post: “It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime,” Wilson writes. “I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets organization. They seemed to have no identity. “My concern was that the character of the players they were looking for superseded the talent they brought to [...]
Imagine how many HR Colon would have allowed in Anaheim if he wasn't a GB pitcher!
John Harper of the Daily News had an interesting proposition for the New York Mets the other day in his column, which you can read here, and that was exploring the idea of putting guys like Rafael Montero and Jacob deGrom in the bullpen given the current anemic state of the relief corps. As it [...]