Kodai Senga and two relievers combined on a two-hit shutout, leading the Mets to a 2-0 win over the Phillies Tuesday night at Citi Field. Senga pitched his best game of the year, throwing seven shutout innings. The key was that he threw strikes. He did not walk a batter and struck out nine. This [...]
The expectation of many was that with MLB requiring two fielders on either side of the second-base bag and banning infielders from playing on the outfield grass that the end result would be more hits. And that has indeed turned out to be true, even if not to the degree that many believed. Last year, [...]
It’s been a very odd season for Francisco Lindor, as exactly half of his hits have gone for extra bases. That’s led to a .197 ISO, his highest since 2019, when he put up the last of his three consecutive seasons with at least a .200 ISO. But his relative lack of singles has led [...]
With the payroll the Mets have and the relatively easy schedule the club has played to date, few thought that the team would be 27-27 at Memorial Day. It’s probably safe to say that most everyone thought they’d be at least 10 games over .500 by this point. You may ask yourself, well, how did [...]
The Mets put on an offensive show on Sunday. Unfortunately, so did their pitchers. The end result was an 11-10 setback. The Rockies took the rubber game of the series and they finish the season with a 4-2 mark against the Mets. * After putting up a 5-run inning on Saturday, the Mets recorded a [...]
Francisco Alvarez continues to impress. Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez are leading the hype train, saying something positive about his defense in nearly every game. Last night he made a truly terrific play, fielding a ball fired into the dirt by Justin Verlander and applying the tag on the runner trying to score from third. [...]
The Mets rallied back from a six-run deficit to take the lead but the bullpen couldn’t hold it, as they fell to the Rockies, 10-7, Saturday night in Denver * Justin Verlander needed just eight pitches to retire the side in the first inning. He then proceeded to give up five runs in the second [...]
With last night’s 0-4, Starling Marte now has 47 G, 182 PA, 66 OPS+ and a .594 OPS. Using the Baseball-Reference span finder and using the first 52 games of a season (to match the Mets’ games played to date) with a minimum of 150 PA and an OPS (OPS+ not an option here) between [...]
Coming into Friday’s game, the Mets had a starting pitcher go at least six innings 12 times and were 12-0 in those games. Max Scherzer allowed just one run in seven innings and the Mets upped their record to 13-0 with a 5-2 win against the Rockies in Denver. It was the longest outing of [...]
Before yesterday’s game, the Mets announced they were cutting Gary Sanchez and activating Tomas Nido from the IL. The entire Sanchez experiment, from beginning to end, made no sense to me. There really wasn’t room for him in the organization and then they really didn’t give him a chance. He had 7 PA in the [...]
Carlos Carrasco turned in his best outing of the season and the Mets bats came to life, resulting in a 10-1 win over the Cubs in Chicago Thursday night. Staked to an early 1-0 lead, Carrasco served up a gopher ball to the second batter he faced. But that was the only run he would [...]
The easiest thing to do for us armchair GMs is to propose making moves with absolutely no repercussions. But how many bad decisions do real GMs and managers get before they pay the price for their moves and/or non-moves? Unfortunately, at least for this piece, that’s a rhetorical question. But if we were judge, jury [...]