We have been criticizing Billy Eppler for his options-reliever strategy since before the season started. And it’s turned out even worse than we initially feared with how those back-end relievers have all been horrible this year. But one thing that flies under the radar has been the club’s designation as Drew Smith as one of [...]
The Mets got demolished two times on Saturday, as they got swept by the Braves by a combined 27-3 score. It’s not a big surprise, given how good the Braves’ lineup is, combined with how rotten what the Mets are sending out. It’s still tough to watch. Both the Mets and Braves sent out a [...]
The depleted Mets threw Tylor Megill against the hard-hitting Braves. No one should have expected a win. And sure enough, the Braves emerged with a 7-0 victory. But in a year where we’ve seen a bunch of crummy baseball, this was as an exasperating loss as we’ve seen all season. The Mets haven’t made pitchers [...]
There’s an old saying that even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. If you’ve never heard that one before, it means that you can be incompetent and sometimes be right just by chance. If only that idiom applied to the Mets. With trades and such, they’ve had to promote a bunch [...]
Numbered prospect lists aren’t really my thing anymore, as the past two years my preseason top 50 has been in tiers. But with all of the activity that has gone on with the club trading MLB players for prospects, and my belief about those prospects, it seemed like a good time to journey to the [...]
It got dicey in the ninth inning but ace reliever Phil Bickford came in to nail down the save, giving the Mets a 4-3 win over the Cubs Wednesday night at Citi Field. The victory gave the Mets the series win, something that was common place in 2022 but has been few and far between [...]
Pete Alonso hit a two-run homer in the first inning but the Mets’ offense could muster nothing after that, as they fell to the Cubs, 3-2, Tuesday night at Citi Field. After the first inning troubles, Jameson Taillon settled down and pitched a great game, with the Mets unable to do much at all against [...]
Pete Alonso hit two home runs and Kodai Senga pitched six strong innings to lead the Mets to an 11-2 win over the Cubs Monday night at Citi Field. The win snapped a six-game losing streak for the Mets and it was their first victory since the trade deadline. Alonso got the Mets on the [...]
It’s always good to consider things from different angles because no one has a monopoly on truth. So, who better for me to have a discussion about the Mets trade deadline deals than Chris Flanders? Having the Mets be sellers was, in my opinion, a defensible decision, even if not the preferred path for me. [...]
Jose Quintana was very good. But it didn’t matter because he was done in by shaky fielding, an unspectacular pen and a non-existent offense. The end result was a 2-0 setback to the Orioles Sunday afternoon in Baltimore. The Mets have now lost six in a row since the trade deadline, showing almost no heart [...]
If you’ve watched the Mets play since the end of the trade deadline, you’ve seen a club go from bad to worse. It wasn’t too difficult to predict, that an under-performing veteran club would see whatever little wind was in its sails disappear completely. Yet while it was predictable, that doesn’t make it any easier [...]
The Mets didn’t get David Peterson stretched out in the bullpen to prepare for his return to the starting rotation. So, he left after three scoreless innings. The option relievers continued to be less than good and the end result was a 10-3 loss to the Orioles Friday night in Baltimore. John Curtiss was the [...]