Getting out of Milwaukee did not prove to be the magic pill the Mets needed, as they traveled to Phoenix and saw another late-inning meltdown in a 7-3 loss Monday night. Arizona tallied six runs in the eighth inning, with most of that damage coming against Hansel Robles, who first entered the game in the [...]
The Mets snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, allowing four runs in the ninth inning en route to a 6-5 loss to the last-place Giants. For the third time in the last four series, the Mets had a chance for a sweep, only to lose the last game. Plenty of blame to go around [...]
Back in late January, before the Mets had finished assembling their 25-man roster, there was a discussion in the comments section of one of our articles, where MattyMets said: “On paper we have 7 starters, but who’s next in line – Ynoa and Montero. Yikes.” My reply to him was, “I do expect a guy [...]
The Marlins avoided a sweep with a 7-0 whitewashing of the Mets Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. The Mets missed a chance to get back to .500 with the setback and suffered their first shutout of the season. The game was lost before the players even stepped on the field. Matt Harvey was scheduled to [...]
The Mets brought back virtually the same team that ended 2016 for the current season. Sure, there were tweaks on the margins, as James Loney was not invited back. But anyone who was a fan in 2016 would have no problem recognizing this squad. There have been 31 different players to suit up for the [...]
The Mets won back-to-back home games for the first time all year with an 11-3 thrashing of the Marlins Saturday night. After dropping five of the first seven games of the year against Miami, New York goes for the sweep of the three-game set on Sunday. The last time Odrisamer Despaigne started a game against [...]
Pop quiz, hotshot. What the world needs now is A. Not another love song B. Not another Rafael Montero post C. Not another Montero appearance in Queens However true B and C might be, we’re getting those. Injuries to Seth Lugo, Steven Matz and Noah Syndergaard leave the Mets scrounging for a starting pitcher. And [...]
Plawecki allowed 3 HR and approximately 3,000 feet of balls in the air
Ideally, you want your best players getting the most PA. As you might imagine, things haven’t exactly been ideal so far for the 2017 Mets. Only one of their top five players in PA is off to a good start in Jay Bruce. This is due to injuries to their good players, slumps by guys [...]
This is 100 percent hindsight. Around this time yesterday, my expectation was that Noah Syndergaard was going to pitch in Thursday afternoon’s game. Instead, he couldn’t go and Matt Harvey went to the mound in his place. Harvey struggled with both velocity and command and had his worst start of 2017 as the Mets went [...]
This is an old tale And not a happy one But full of woe, alas, and pain! The 2017 Mets, the team that reminds us, daily it seems, that things can always get worse. Wednesday we saw Robert Gsellman, our preseason Rookie of the Year candidate, get clobbered in the first inning on his way [...]
The Mets were rained out Tuesday night and the initial reaction from nearly everywhere was how fortunate this was because it gave the walking wounded hitters another day to recover. That’s absolutely true but to me the biggest benefit lies elsewhere. In my mind the prime advantage is for the relievers, who now have had [...]