Reed Garrett has made five minor league rehab appearances and Sean Reid-Foley has made two, with both of them in Triple-A for their last game. In other words, they’re about to be activated any day. And it’s far from certain who will go to make room for them. One of the people on the bubble [...]
The first four hitters for the Mets each smoked an extra-base hit, capped off by Pete Alonso’s massive home run, to stake David Peterson to a 4-0 lead and an eventual 9-1 Mets win over the Rockies Thursday afternoon in Denver. The victory, combined with a Braves loss earlier in the day, vaulted the Mets [...]
The post-trade-deadline edition
The Mets finally remembered they were playing in Coors Field, hit the ball in the air and plated three runs in the ninth inning, leading to a 5-3 win over the Rockies Wednesday night. Francisco Alvarez started the winning rally with a one-out triple. After the next two batters walked, Francisco Lindor broke the tie [...]
The Mets jumped out to a 2-0 lead but that’s not enough at Coors Field and the end result was a 6-3 loss to the Rockies. The Mets are now 2-3 halfway through the 10-game road trip. Luis Severino, making his first start in Coors, didn’t pitch bad but was let down by his defense [...]
Now that the trade deadline has passed, it seemed like a good time to check in with Chris Flanders on the state of the Mets. Below is our email correspondence on some issues facing the Mets both now and the near-future. Brian: For many years, you've advocated for the Mets to do a full-scale rebuild [...]
Sean Manaea turned in his second straight dominating performance and Carlos Mendoza’s shuffled lineup came thru, leading the Mets to a 6-0 win over the Cardinals Monday afternoon in St. Louis, in the makeup of an earlier rained out game. With the win, the Mets take the season series from the Cardinals, 4-2. Manaea, coming [...]
It was a matchup of two starting pitchers without either great results or great stuff. And the game lived up exactly to its billing, as both pitchers seemed more interested in racking up big pitch counts early than putting hitters away. And in this game of death by a 1,000 cuts, the Mets came out [...]
We’re so used to the Mets’ bullpen needing to add quality relievers that we’re not really prepared for what happens in the next week to 10 days, where the Mets will have to decide how to handle adding three relievers coming off the IL to a group that’s been more good than bad the past [...]
Huascar Brazoban gave up a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Mets fell to the Angels, 5-4, Saturday night in Anaheim. The Mets had just taken a 4-2 lead, thanks to a grand slam by J.D. Martinez in the top of the seventh. Carlos Mendoza opted to go to his pen, removing David [...]
It was a successful Mets debut for Paul Blackburn, who put a bunch of runners on base but came out mostly unscathed. The Mets had a bunch of hits and wound up with a 5-1 win over the Angels to start out their 10-game road trip Friday night in Anaheim. Blackburn gave up six hits, [...]
People love lists, especially ranked lists. And it’s easy to understand why, as these lists help bring order to things. But some things lend themselves quite well to lists – like, say, who has the most home runs or strikeouts. And some things simply don’t. It’s my opinion that top prospect lists are like that. [...]