It's been said again and again that spring training numbers don't count, but one number should have leaped off the screen for you last week - 97. As in, 97 mph registered on the Juggs radar gun with Jacob deGrom pitching in his first spring training appearance, and following surgery to relocate the ulnar nerve [...]
Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's the Mets front office and dugout went to great lengths to accommodate their most promising young player - Gregg Jefferies. For those of you too young to remember, Jefferies was the Bryce Harper of his day, a hardworking, super intense hitter with a fabled workout regimen that [...]
It's been three years since either David Wright or Zack Wheeler played a full season of baseball. Both have tremendous talent and have worked really hard to rehabilitate from significant injuries, overcome adversity, and maintain confidence. They deserve a lot of credit and we're all rooting for them. But, while it would be wonderful if [...]
Given all the questions surrounding the Mets – key contributors coming back from injuries and off seasons, the outfield logjam, etc – it’s not easy to objectively predict what the 2017 season has in store for them. Here are some predictions from three perspectives. The 2017 Mets – the Rose Colored Glasses Edition The Mets [...]
The Mets will begin the 2017 season vying for an unprecedented third straight post season. This Mets fan likes our chances, despite what Fangraphs (83 wins?!) thinks. If we can win 87 games and make the playoffs with half our team on the disabled list, you have to think we've got a good shot to [...]
Every season as a Mets fan always seems to feature one player who comes out of nowhere to have a terrific season. Maybe they were a career minor leaguer who finally got their chance (Terry Leach), a platoon player who got thrust into full-time duty (Xavier Nady), a marginal prospect who defied expectations (Dillon Gee), [...]
With or without Jay Bruce, the Mets appear to have sufficient depth in the field and in the lineup going into spring training. And with last season's emergence of Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo, we have rotation depth. However, the bullpen remains a few fries short of a happy meal. The back end, with Jeurys [...]
Mets pitchers and catchers will be reporting to Port St. Lucie for Spring Training in just four weeks. Now there's something to smile about. However, with a quieter than usual hot stove season, many teams, including the Mets, find themselves with incomplete rosters and some remaining holes to fill and issues to sort out before [...]
Our proud general manager may never cop to it, but it's easy to imagine him wishing he could take back that ill-fated in-season trade of second base prospect Dilson Hererra for a certain streaky and one-dimensional slugger from Cincinnati. Bad moves have a way of trickling down and begetting other ill-fated moves and it can [...]
Brandon Nimmo, a nice country boy from Wyoming, has had quite a rollercoaster ride with the Mets organization. As Sandy Alderson's first top pick as Mets General Manager, Nimmo grabbed the spotlight immediately. The unheralded outfielder from East High School in Cheyenne, Wyoming was a surprising pick at number 11 of the first round. Alderson [...]
While a number of players have donned both pinstripes and orange and blue in their careers (Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, David Cone, et al), there have only been 15 trades between the Mets and Yankees, and most were of the "Gonzalez Germen for cash considerations" variety. Back in the early 2000s the teams connected on [...]
Assuming the Mets front office does what we think they’re going to do over the next few weeks – unload Jay Bruce and his $13 million salary and bring in a secondary bullpen arm or two – we’ll be in pretty good shape. That is to say, good enough to compete for the playoffs if [...]