Jacob deGrom is making history

Whether he ultimately wins the Cy Young award or not, Jacob deGrom is having a season for the ages. The numbers he's putting up don't just put him among the league leaders this season, but also in select company historically. He's also been setting some new Mets standards as well. deGrom's scintillating 1.68 ERA is [...]

Friday open thread: 8/31/18

The Mets announced that first baseman Peter Alonso will not be joining the team in September, despite mashing 33 home runs and driving in 112 runs between double and triple A and winning defensive player of the month honors. What do you think the reasoning is behind this? A) Roster crunch. The Mets don't want [...]

More accurate Mets player nicknames

It's players' weekend and that means it's time for those alternate uniforms featuring fun nicknames. Some are clever like "PTBNL" (Josh Phegley) and "<box emoji> <hamburger emoji>" (Brad Boxberger) and some like "Buster" (duh, Buster Posey), eh, not so much. The Mets, like the rest of MLB, have their share of cute and not-so-cute jerseys [...]

This Mets season can’t be turned around, can it?

The Mets have been playing pretty good ball of late. After the worst June imaginable that derailed the season, the Mets have played .500 ball since July 1. We’ve got a healthy and mostly effective rotation, Michael Conforto is hitting again, we got dead cat bounces out of Jose Bautista and now Austin Jackson, and [...]