If you follow amateur baseball at all, you know more about the players selected in the draft than me. The best I can do is tell you that a guy who hit a triple and a homer for the Copperheads was taken by the Giants – in the 15th round. But hopefully what I’m lacking [...]
People who complain about three true outcome baseball should have to watch Wednesday’s Mets-Orioles game on a loop. Think walks, strikeouts and home runs are boring? Try watching a never-ending supply of groundouts and lazy fly balls. Oh well, to each his own. But as yawnstipating as yesterday’s game was, it did have one moment [...]
Well, Adrian Gonzalez has made it to June and he’s still in the majors, starting more often than not. Unfortunately, that says more about the Mets than it does about Gonzalez. We have the team’s preference for veterans, combined with potential first base replacements on the DL and their Triple-A first baseman floundering while performing [...]
The Cubs completed a four-game sweep of the Mets with a 2-0 win Sunday afternoon. It was the first time the Mets were swept at home in a four-game series in five years and it made the team’s record 3-11 in their last 14 games. Steven Matz deserved a better fate. He held the Cubs [...]
The Mets’ bullpen in 2017 was a disaster. From the Jeurys Familia suspension & injury to the Fernando Salas implosion from overuse to the homer happy ways of Hansel Robles there was a lot of disappointment from the team’s relievers. So, when the Mets traded away impending free agents in July and August, they prioritized [...]
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One of the Mets’ walking wounded returned to action on Monday, as Kevin Plawecki was activated from the disabled list and started in the second game of the doubleheader. It was the eighth start of the year for Plawecki and in what’s perhaps a coincidence, the Mets are 7-1 in those starts. Plawecki has always [...]
Wow, just when you thought that there couldn’t be a worse way to lose than the Mets have the past three days, they find a different painful way. Charlie Culberson hit a pinch-hit, walkoff two-run homer, propelling the Braves to a 4-3 win in the first game of a doubleheader. Jacob deGrom did not have [...]
It was déjà vu all over again for the Mets, as they were unable to hold two multi-run leads en route to an 8-7 loss Sunday against the Brewers. After taking the first game in the series, the Mets dropped the last three games, with all three being very winnable contests. The offense has been [...]
Many years ago conventional wisdom in baseball claimed that a player’s peak occurred between the ages of 28-32. When researcher/author Bill James looked at the issue in his essay, “Looking for the Prime,” he concluded, “If you must assign a five-year peak period to all players regardless of description, the best shot would be 25 [...]
There are 14 players in the majors with at least 100 PA and a .400 OBP. Brandon Nimmo ranks fourth with a .423 mark. The three players ahead of him are Mike Trout, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. The two guys behind him are Kris Bryant and Brandon Belt. You have to be a pretty [...]
From my top 50 prospects article published before the start of the season: Some guys not ranked that you may find curious: Kevin Kaczmarski – I guess he still has a shot to make the majors because of the lack of depth with outfielders in the upper minors. But let’s be honest – he didn’t [...]