The Mets will surely be in the free agent market this offseason, and they are likely to target at least one and maybe two outfielders, depending on whether or not Michael Conforto is retained. Brandon Nimmo was great all season in center, but right and left fields are question marks. Names like Chris Taylor, Starling [...]
The Mets are in a somewhat common position for them, that is going into the offseason needing to hire a new manager. They’ve had three in just the past three seasons, with Mickey Callaway skippering the team in 2019, then Carlos Beltran for about a nanosecond, and Luis Rojas then managing for the past two [...]
The task at hand is to revamp the Mets to prepare for the 2022 season. Spoiler alert. I will propose a few big moves but all in all I imagine my recommendations will be less splashy than some of the other off-season scenarios done by other writers. The first order of business is to hire [...]
The Saturday night subway series game, with the very moving 9/11 remembrance ceremony, drew an SRO crowd of 43,144. Other than these recent contests with the Yanks, it seems like there are more empty seats than usual at Citi Field. We’ll take a look statistically at this and posit some possible reasons for any attendance [...]
The Mets faltering August shows that the team will likely need some upgrades at several positions, notably third base and corner outfielder. Since the trading deadline has come, any significant move would have to come in the offseason. One position that looks like it will not need to be changed is center fielder. For some [...]
On paper, the pitching matchup of Charlie Morton vs. Jerad Eickhoff clearly favored the visiting Braves, and in this case, form held as the Braves buried the Mets 12-5 in Flushing. Atlanta jumped off to a six-run lead by scoring 2 runs in each of the first three innings. The Mets scored a run of [...]
A lot of people have been saying that the Mets were not good against winning teams, and they were right… back in May. That's when the team had many of their starters, and some subs as well, on the IL. However, that has not been true since the key injured players have returned, but some [...]
The Mets and Braves had a see-saw battle at Truist Park that ended with a bang-bang infield single off the bat of All-Star Freddie Freeman to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth, resulting in a 4-3 Braves triumph. Mets starter Jacob deGrom showed he was human after all, at least [...]
The division-leading Mets kicked off a three game series in Atlanta by coming from behind to knock off the Braves 4-3, ending a 2-game losing skid. Starters Charlie Morton and Tylor Megill both pitched scoreless ball through the first four frames. However the third time through the order proved to be Megill’s undoing. In the [...]
In a battle of division leaders, the Mets edged the Cubs 3-2 at Citi Field Tuesday night. The Mets have now taken the first 2 games of a four game set against the northsiders. The Cubbies grabbed the early lead on a third inning two run blast to right center by Javy Baez. The Mets [...]
Center field has been an unsettled position for the Mets in recent years, dating back to when Carlos Beltran was patrolling the outfield pastures and terrorizing opposing pitchers. This year the Mets have really had to dig deep down on their center field depth chart. This was due to the nearly unprecedented injury wave that [...]
On this past Sunday, catcher James McCann was in the starting lineup for the Mets. Nothing unusual about that, except for the fact that he had been the catcher the night before against the Diamondbacks. Generally, in the modern era catchers get a rest day when there is a day game after a night game, [...]