Since David Wright has succumbed to injury problems the past few years, the Mets have struggled to field an adequate replacement at third base. They’ve tried 12 different players at the hot corner besides their captain and no one has come close to replacing Wright’s production on both sides of the game. In seven of [...]
Coming off his shortest outing of the year, one where he was removed after a 41-pitch second inning, Corey Oswalt rebounded with six shutout innings for Double-A Binghamton Saturday night. It was the ninth time in his last 13 outings that Oswalt has limited the opposition to fewer than two runs and he has a [...]
When the Mets picked up their 2017 option on Jay Bruce last November, it was neither surprising nor exciting. The conventional wisdom was that he was insurance in case the team was unable to bring back Yoenis Cespedes. And if they did re-sign Cespedes, the thought was that he would be flipped elsewhere, most likely [...]
The Mets opened up a three-game series against the first-place Nationals with a heartbreaking 3-2 loss Monday night in Washington. Ryan Raburn dropped a ball just out of the reach of a sliding Yoenis Cespedes to score the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. Terry Collins used three relievers in the ninth and [...]
At the start of Spring Training, the Mets had seven pitchers that they hoped would make most of the starts for the club this season. Multiple injuries forced the Mets to use other starters much earlier than anticipated, as Rafael Montero started on May 5, Adam Wilk on May 7 and Tommy Milone on May [...]
The Mets had their three-game winning streak snapped by the Marlins Tuesday night in Miami, as they fell to their division rivals, 6-3. The key inning in the game was the seventh. Travis d'Arnaud tied the game with a solo homer, his second RBI of the game. Pinch-hitter Brandon Nimmo drew a walk, bringing up [...]
This week on the podcast, when asked to make an unlikely prediction, Gotham Baseball’s Mark Healey said that Rafael Montero was going to be a useful pitcher. Sunday, Montero gets yet another chance to show his stuff. We can’t really call it his last chance, because at this point the only thing to garner more [...]
Friday was an eventful day for Asdrubal Cabrera. He was activated from the disabled list, informed that he was no longer going to play shortstop, publicly asked for a trade and then finished the day with a three-hit game – and was semi-robbed of another hit – and had a nice game-ending fielding play at [...]
The Mets were quite happy to leave L.A. and they brought their bats with them as they ventured north to San Francisco, beating the Giants 11-4 in a game that was not that close. The Mets pounded out 20 hits, with five different players getting three hits, including Asdrubal Cabrera, who made headlines earlier in [...]
The last week hasn’t been pretty. And let’s not pretend that what came before that was all sunshine and lollipops, either. Understandably, fans are giving up on the 2017 season and making moves for next year. You hear variations of calling up the kids and deciding which guys to trade to get something of value [...]
Jacob deGrom came up with his second straight dominant outing, as he both pitched and hit the Mets to a 5-1 victory Sunday afternoon. The win allowed the Mets to salvage the last game of the four-game series against the Nationals and gave the team a 3-4 mark in the first seven games of this [...]
For most of the year, injuries have kept the Mets from having to make too many tough decisions on how to handle who starts in the outfield. And while currently there is an outfielder on the disabled list, Juan Lagares was clearly lower on the pecking order than the other four players. So, Terry Collins [...]