Editor's Note: I wrote this story and then saw the news he had been sent down. As a general rule, people mistrust new things and nowhere is this more evident than in baseball statistics. I am among a generation of people who grew up getting my baseball numbers primarily from the newspaper, baseball cards and [...]
Last year’s Mets roster had a bunch of questionable additions on Opening Day that it took until mid-May or later to correct. This year’s roster had fewer head-scratching selections and the new management team has been quicker to address problems. Blaine Boyer, clearly the biggest Opening Day mistake, lasted all of 10 days. Lucas Duda [...]