Travis d’Arnaud has just over 200 at bats this season for the Mets and has put up an OPS (on base percentage + slugging percentage) of 911. To put that into perspective Buster Posey’s OPS is around 880 although he has stayed healthy and on the field far longer than d’Arnaud. Simply put d’Arnaud has [...]
FanGraphs, as of Friday morning, gave the Mets a 96.9% chance of winning the NL East after the team’s sweep in Washington and series opening win in Atlanta. These are heady days for Mets fans and we are all enjoying the ride and hoping for a long run in the playoffs. It is tempting to [...]
OK, this may be premature. As of Saturday morning Fan Graphs was giving the Mets an 80% chance of winning the NL East and just a 0.8% chance of winning a wild card spot if the Nats overtake them for the division flag. A few more outings by Bobby Parnell and/or Eric O’Flaherty and it [...]
In the early days of the internet a popular worldwide discussion system was called Usenet. It consisted of newsgroups. It started up in the early 1980s and still exists today. The plethora of social media sites has made Usenet close to irrelevant but – call it tradition – I still pop in and look at [...]
Broadcasters Howie Rose and Keith Hernandez sprinkle allusions to the Strat-O-Matic Baseball game they played extensively in their teens. It is a game that is still going strong and the defensive grades it assigns players are respected for accuracy and consistency. In recent years as a service to my fellow league members I give them [...]
Don Knotts as Barney Fife, George Wendt as Norm Peterson, Jon Hamm as Don Draper. On TV and in the movies we have seen hundreds of occasions where the role was perfect for the actor and the actor was equally perfect for the role. In baseball there are roles too. We call them positions and [...]
Since the trade deadline frenzy last week there has been much speculation as to whether all of the newly acquired Mets will be gone when the 2016 team is minted. The big fish that all Mets fans would love to keep is Yoenis Cespedes but I think we all know in our heart of hearts [...]
I realize that the trendy thing to do is write about the big Yoenis Cespedes swap the Mets made on Friday but I thought I’d reflect on the almost-Gomez trade that didn’t happen on Wednesday. Some people are more into conspiracy theories than others. I am kind of into that stuff. A good conspiracy theory [...]
In Sandy Alderson's press briefing on Thursday he touched on a number of trade related subjects. And, of course, we have to dismiss much of what he says because his history (and that of most of his fellow GMs) is that he will often say one thing and do another. After all, Michael Conforto wasn't [...]
Fred and Jeff Wilpon are probably the worst owners in professional baseball at this time, possibly the worst in all of professional sports. They are immensely unpopular with the fan base of their own team. Whenever Mets fans discuss the Wilpons I am reminded of the line Buddy Hackett used to use referring to sportscaster [...]
It’s a rare day when I haven’t visited MLB Trade Rumors on more than one occasion. I must be a masochist because my visits there are mostly prompted by interest in what the Mets are doing. And you all know already what the Mets are doing on the trade front: nothing, not even intriguing talk. [...]
First things first. I have not seen this as a rumor and am just pulling it out of the air. Neither the Mets nor the Braves can be happy with their big free agent signings this past offseason. The Mets gave Michael Cuddyer a two year deal for a total of $21 million and in [...]