Here are two players for your consideration: Player A: 310 PA, 103 OPS+ 1.3 rWAR, 1.5 fWAR, $10.5 million Player B: 233 PA, 96 OPS+, 1.5 rWAR, 0.6 fWAR, $2.025 million They’re pretty similar. Perhaps you’d prefer Player A due to his fWAR advantage, at least until you looked as their respective salaries. The players [...]
Luis Severino couldn’t keep the good times going and the Mets fell to the Twins, 8-3, Wednesday afternoon at Citi Field. With the loss, the Mets dropped to 57-51 for the year. Severino gave up a solo homer in the second for the game’s first run. After the Mets gave him the lead in the [...]
Sean Manaea had his best game as a Met and combined with two relievers on a shutout, as the Mets blanked the Twins, 2-0, Tuesday night at Citi Field. The Mets are now seven games above .500 with a 57-50 record. Manaea set the tone early, as he struck out two in a 1-2-3 first [...]
The Mets continue to make moves on the margins, as they acquired reliever Huascar Brazobán from the Marlins. Brazoban has appeared in 97 games for the Marlins over the past three years and has posted a 3.56 ERA in 121.1 IP. He’s having his best season this year, with a 2.93 ERA and a 2.63 [...]
If you were worried that the Mets would be without a Tyler/Tylor with the trade to acquire Paul Blackburn to take Tylor Megill’s spot, fear not. The club pulled off another deal with the Rays, acquiring reliever Tyler Zuber. While he has limited MLB experience under his belt, Zuber is a fastball-slider pitcher, with an [...]
The Mets made a move to add depth to their starting pitching by acquiring Paul Blackburn from the A’s. Blackburn, who has spent a good deal of this season on the IL, has a 4.41 ERA in nine starts and 51 IP this season. Perhaps the best thing about Blackburn is that he throws strikes. [...]
The Mets begin trade deadline day at 56-50, in a virtual tie for the second Wild Card spot. That’s a pace for an 86-win season. But there’s a reason to believe the team is better than that. They’ve done a bunch of shuffling to get the team they have now. Of the 26 players on [...]
After being stymied offensively over most of the past four games, the Mets broke out in a big way, as they pounded out 17 hits and nearly as many runs, as they cruised to a 15-2 win over the Twins Monday night at Citi Field. The Mets are now 5-2 in the last seven games [...]
As usual, the team with the most home runs win. The Braves cracked four home runs en route to a 9-2 shellacking of the Mets Sunday afternoon at Citi Feld. The two teams split their four-game series, with the Braves winning the last two. Just like Tylor Megill did on Saturday, David Peterson cruised thru [...]
Every now and then you stumble across something great on the internet. One of my favorite non-sports things was something that came out several years ago, a time-lapse video showing how the borders of Europe have changed throughout the years. That video came to mind when thinking about the Mets’ bullpen. To be sure, it’s [...]
It started off good for Tylor Megill but ended up in predictable lousiness as the Mets fell to the Braves, 4-0, Saturday afternoon at Citi Field. The loss snapped the club’s five-game winning streak and was also the Braves’ first win after losing six-straight games. Megill retired the first 10 batters he faced but then [...]
The Mets smacked three home runs in the third inning to give Kodai Senga all the runs he’d need in his debut start of the 2024 season, as the Mets won their fifth-straight game, 8-4, over the Braves Friday night at Citi Field. With the win, the Mets moved half a game in front of [...]