Does the season hang on Matt Harvey? We seem to think that Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom will be both healthy and dominant. And while we haven’t projected Steven Matz yet, it’s probably safe to assume that not many will be throwing out 200 IP seasons for him. So, can Harvey recover from his surgery [...]
We’ve all seen players go on hot streaks. Often times on these hot streaks, there’s a ton of good fortune and not much else going on. But occasionally, we see something different happening beyond just “the hit gods smiled on him.” At the end of 2015, we saw Daniel Murphy turn on pitches rather than [...]
Asdrubal Cabrera was a strong offensive player in 2011 and 2012. Then from 2013-2015, he put up a combined .712 OPS, one that was that high only because of a monster second half of 2015, when a .348 BABIP led to a .916 OPS, after he posted a .627 OPS in the first half of [...]
The Mets have three options for their fifth starter in 2017. Robert Gsellman had strong peripherals to match his strong results. Seth Lugo had strong results and the team won seven of his eight starts Zack Wheeler looked on the verge of becoming a star before getting injured. Who should get the nod?
See what Henry Wadsworth Longellow and Ken McMullen have to do with Neil Walker.
It’s still a bit hard to believe what the Mets have with Jacob deGrom. No one considers his 2016 as especially great, yet through his first 21 starts of the season, he had a 2.30 ERA, a 1.050 WHIP and a 4.4 K/BB ratio. Then he struggled in his last three starts before winding up [...]
Two key pieces of the second-half 2016 Mets bullpen are now free agents. Jerry Blevins posted a 3.07 ERA with a 5.0 K/BB ratio from July 15 to September 18 while Fernando Salas had a 2.08 ERA, a 0.635 WHIP with 19 Ks and 0 BB in 17.2 IP after being acquired from the Angels. [...]
Since his defense was as good as his offense in 2015, Yoenis Cespedes had a monster year, recording a 6.7 fWAR. His defense was not as good in 2016, as his numbers in CF were worse than expected, and he posted a 3.2 fWAR. After the 2015 season, no one was willing to give Cespedes [...]
Welcome to our annual projection series, now getting ready to start its fifth season. We kick things off with Noah Syndergaard who, part by his dominating pitching and part by the fact that he was the only young gun to stay healthy, became the ace of the pitching staff in 2016. My opinion is that [...]
The Mets have six full seasons of the Sandy Alderson-Terry Collins regime under their belt. Since the 2011 season, they’ve never had fewer than 45 players suit up for the club in a season. They actually used fewer players last year (46) than in their pennant-winning season of 2015 (49). In general, change has been [...]
When the Mets won their first World Series in 1969, they received 51 complete games from their starters. Last year their staff posted just one complete game. Many people wish that we would go back to the starting usage from that earlier era. My thought is that in the overall scheme of things, we’re better [...]
However big you think you are, baseball will humble you. Barry Bonds once went 23 ABs without a hit. Gary Carter went 247 PA between his 299th and 300th career homers. Willie Mays started his career 1-26. The flip side of that is if you stick around long enough, every dog has his day. Let’s [...]