According to ESPN, the 2014 Mets have struck out 53 times over their first five games of the season. That's a new team record, shattering the previous record of 44 strikeouts over their first five games in 1968. The high strikeout totals shouldn't be a surprise to Mets fans. They were tied with the Braves [...]
A couple of years ago the Mets had two brilliant pitching prospects: Zack Wheeler and Matt Harvey. Wheeler was thought to be the one with the higher ceiling as he had a more polished repertoire than Harvey. People were wrong. In fact, last year, Matt Harvey proved just how wrong they were when he pitched [...]
I met Tommie Agee one time at the bar in the Charcoal Room at Shea Stadium. Most of the people had left to go to their seats but there was a rain delay at the start of the game and I had stayed back. It was probably 1987. He grabbed a paper “Met” napkin off [...]
AAA: Cesar Puello – Of all the better prospects currently on the 51’s, Puello is the one who could have the largest impact. With Chris Young on a one-year deal, Puello looks to prove his ability to play in the majors and earn a starting spot in 2015. It’s notable that he’s starting the year [...]
If you haven’t heard or just crawled out from under a rock, there has been a recent uproar about New York Mets’ second baseman Daniel Murphy missing the Mets first two games to tend to his wife as she gave birth to the couple’s son, Noah, this week. By the way, Noah Syndergaard says thanks! [...]
The good news is the Nationals are finally out of town. Bad news is the Cincinnati Reds are here. But fear not, the season is young, and there's 159 more games to go.
The Mets announced on Friday, April 04, 2014 that Lucas Duda will be the team’s starting first baseman, adding greater confusion to the first base question that has been following the team all winter and through spring training. The announcement is another strange turn in the debacle that the front office has made of the [...]
Well, you couldn’t have scripted a rougher start than the Met’s opening series against the Nationals. The Mets, one strike away from an exciting, hard-fought win, lost a heartbreaker Opening Day after an implosion of the bullpen in the late innings. After two more lackluster games, the sweep became inevitable culminating with five more runs [...]
“Here’s the problem: the Mets aren’t just bad, they’re DULL and bad” Those were the words Tweeted by your intrepid columnist as Andrew Brown struck out against Craig Stammen to wrap up the Mets’ first 0-2 start in nine years. 2005, when the Mets got off 0-5 and were only rescued by a Pedro Martinez [...]