Many parallels can be drawn between championship teams. While not always true, there seems to be common themes present, and a team needs to have the right tools to make the ultimate run. Unfortunately, many of these tools are often intangible and qualitative, but we will attempt to analyze these Mets for these qualities. It [...]
This one was a rough game for the Mets. Despite a late push by the bats, the Nationals easily walked away with the rubber game of a three-game set to tie the season series at three games apiece. They quite literally “walked” away with this one today as Mets pitchers walked 12. Zack Wheeler doled [...]
Well it’s a week into the season and the Mets are in first place! Where have we heard that before? Hopefully this season the success can continue, but we will see with the competitive division. This early jump on NL East teams certainly helps. There have been many story lines to follow already in the [...]
The Mets came into the day hoping for an opening series sweep of the Nationals, but eventually fell to the divisional rival on a Trea Turner walk-off home run in the 9th inning. It was his second homer in a 3 Run 4 RBI effort for the young shortstop, who also added a stolen base [...]
The Mets hold the MLB record for opening day games at 36-20 (.643) despite being 21st in the majors for overall team record at a .471 winning percentage. What does this mean? Part of it is most likely due to the team being fortunate enough to have some of the greatest aces in the game [...]
The other day I was perusing around some projections for Mets players and was surprised to see that one had Amed Rosario stealing 30 bags. This really shouldn’t come as a surprise, he swiped 24 last year, but it still struck me as odd. No doubt the past few years of Mets baseball have desensitized [...]
Many teams work to extend the contracts of their young budding stars before they peak so that they can pay for their best years below market rate. The players agree to it because it gives them more security than what a rookie contract and yearly arbitration provide. The Mets operate all too often not like [...]
Baseball is being played again, and it feels great. But do the Grapefruit and Cactus varieties of America’s Pastime really matter? More specifically, do team records and player statistics from Spring Training actually correlate to regular season success? We all want to go crazy over Dominic Smith’s batting average, or be upset at Zack Wheeler’s [...]
This winter Baseball Prospectus (BP) developed a new metric called “Deserved Runs Created” that they hope becomes the most advanced and accurate measure of a hitter’s contribution. The math behind it is pretty frightening, and they withhold the actual calculations to prevent another site from copying it, but BP has released a series of articles [...]
Certainly we’ve all heard that Mets slugging prospect Peter Alonso might start the year in Triple-A Syracuse to avoid achieving “Super Two status,” but you may still be wondering what does that exactly mean. While we hope Alonso becomes a super player for us, avoiding Super Two status would save the Mets money on Alonso [...]
Brodie Van Wagenen in just one hundred days has certainly instilled a sense of confidence for the Mets in 2019. The new GM’s “big offseason splash” came in the form of many quality big leaguers destined to help fix the team’s weakest points, but was it enough to justify this confidence? Having confidence in your [...]
Oliver Perez inked a $2.75 million, one-year deal to resign with the Indians last Friday. It could be the last major-league deal given out to a lefty reliever this offseason, as the Mets got their guy a little earlier on Friday in Justin Wilson. The Mets were loosely linked to the 37-year-old Perez earlier and [...]