"We sit here stranded Though we're all doing our best to deny it"
One of the things that brings me joy with the site is when someone graduates from being a reader to being a writer. It's happened a few times over the years and the latest is with today's interview subject, Steven Shrager. It's tough to go from writing 50-word comments to 750-word essays. And it's even [...]
Pete Alonso is a great home run hitter and most of us are thrilled he’s on the team. Yet there’s a difference of opinion on how good he is and how hard the Mets should try to re-sign him as he’s a year away from becoming a free agent. Few would argue that the Mets [...]
Last year we started a new series here at Mets360, one where we conducted interviews with both writers and readers of the site. It’s something we’re going to continue this year and we kick it off with David Hong. We brought on four new writers last year and David H. was one of them. He’s [...]
Here are the final grades for the disappointing 2023 season for the Mets. The goal is to incorporate actual production, along with preseason expectations, as well as the individual’s role on the club. This means not all grades that are the same are equal. In order to qualify for a grade, a player needed to [...]
We all want things to be perfect. Yet rarely in life do things work out that way. This is so universal that we even have an idiom to describe things that fall short of perfection. You’re probably heard of the saying – don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Which brings us [...]
There was not a happy ending to the 2023 season, as it was announced that Buck Showalter would not manage next year before the game and then the final outing of the season resulted in a 9-1 loss to the Phillies Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. But maybe that’s the ending this season deserved. It [...]
When we see a player’s line at the end of the year, we get to see how he did over the largest possible sample size. And that’s good, even if it can be a bit misleading. There’s no better example of that than 2022 Eduardo Escobar, who was lousy the first five months of the [...]
The Mets jumped on top early in both games of the doubleheader against the Phillies Saturday night. They had to hold on for a 4-3 win in the opener but they had an 11-4 laugher in the nightcap. The Mets are now 6-6 versus the Phillies this season. The Mets scored three runs in the [...]
Buck Showalter won Manager of the Year in 2022 and big things were expected of him in 2023. We all know the Mets didn’t have a good season this year. The question now is: How much blame should Showalter get for the team’s poor results? Our pal Texas Gus recently posted that he didn’t think [...]
As sure as the day destroys the night and two follows one, if you write a column about the top 10 good things one day, a column on top 10 bad things will come next. And while there wasn’t much disagreement on the order of things with the good column, my guess is that people [...]
After making the playoffs in back-to-back seasons, the Mets haven’t had much sustained success. Shoot, if we’re being honest, they haven’t had much success at all. This year marks the fifth time in the last seven seasons that the club finished under .500 for the campaign. And this season started with such high hopes. Oh [...]