In 2019, Brandon Nimmo injured his neck. He tried to play thru the injury but ultimately went on the then-called DL and missed three months. The Mets used several different players in center field but the guy who got the most playing time was Juan Lagares. In 285 PA that season, Lagares put up a [...]
“And so begins the task I have dreaded the coming of For so long” One of my beliefs is that you have to hold yourself accountable for what you say and do. Each year right before the start of the season, I make about 15 predictions for the coming year. Not once have more than [...]
Timing is everything. David Cone should be remembered as one of the best Mets pitchers ever. But because he didn’t play on the 1986 team – along with an unfortunate issue or two during his Mets tenure – he’s rarely among the first pitchers fans tick off when listing the team’s greats. The fact he [...]
Two years ago, MLB instituted a new rule where a relief pitcher had to face a minimum of three batters, or finish an inning. It was presented as an idea to speed up the game, with the hope of cutting down on mid-inning pitching changes. Unintended consequence or not, it severely cut down on LOOGY [...]
Losing Aaron Loup to free agency leaves a big hole in the bullpen. Many will focus primarily on which hand he pitches with but the real issue is that he was dominating. In 125 PA when he did not have the platoon advantage, Loup limited opponents to a .211/.290/.257 line last year. And he had [...]
It’s been an interesting ride so far for Tylor Megill. He went from being a mid-round draft pick to a sleeper prospect to making 18 starts for the Mets last season despite pitching only one game above A-ball prior to 2021. He had some good moments for the Mets last year but the biggest thing [...]
There are all kinds of ways to have fun at the ballpark. I like to watch the game but I don’t look down at those who want to drink beer, yell at the umpire and look at the pretty girls. And there are those who go to see the mascot. I don’t know what it [...]
There’s been recent news in Mets-land, as the club promoted Ben Zauzmer to Assistant General Manager (AGM). Zauzmer joined the Mets last year, hired away from the Dodgers to become the Mets’ Director of Baseball Analytics. Zauzmer becomes the club’s third AGM, joining Ian Levin and Bryn Alderson. On the front office org chart at [...]
It seems safe to say that most people expected Dominic Smith to be better than he was in 2021. Now, you may not have been as optimistic as me, but chances are you expected better than a .244/.304/.363 line in 493 PA. In his previous 396 PA, Smith put up a .299/.366/.571 triple-slash line. So, [...]
Awhile ago, a popular meme-type thing was to list three steps to success, where the first item was very basic and easy, the third line was “success!” and the second step was left blank. It seems that’s the idea that card companies were following in the mid-80’s to mid-90’s. The first item was “crank up [...]
Mets fans got a new manager, a new GM and a free agent bonanza, including a pitcher who’s been one of the best in the game for the past decade. All of that helps to take some of the bad taste out of our collective mouths for how the second half of the 2021 season [...]
The Mets wasted way too much time the past two offseasons trying to acquire a President of Baseball Operations (PoBO.) In hindsight, that unsuccessful chase of a PoBO helped ruin their 2021 season. It led to the panic hire of an inexperienced GM and the continued employment of an overmatched manager. However, before any games [...]