It's kind of unfathomable that a team with a killer lineup, the best pitcher in baseball, and a solid bullpen can miss the playoffs in a year when more than half the teams make it. There are plenty of teams who will be playing in October who don't have half as much talent as this [...]
The Mets need starting pitchers STAT! Not long ago, the Mets were loaded with pitchers. But then we traded away three of our best pitching prospects, let one of our top starters leave via free agency, and lost another to Tommy John surgery. Despite all that, we still had the makings of a good rotation, [...]
In typical 2020 fashion, baseball is now really weird. There are cardboard cutouts of fans in the stands at Citi Field. Yoenis Cespedes is finally playing...as a DH. There's a phantom runner on second base to start extra innings. Some ball parks are piping in recorded crowd noise. Relievers now have to face a minimum [...]
In their 58-year history, the Mets have made 68 first round picks. We've had a few years with no top round pick and a few where we had more than one, hence the big, crooked number. Of those 68 picks, 22 were chosen among the top 10. While the odds of making a smart pick [...]
Life has not been normal for anyone. Most of us have been quarantined for 75 days, and, even if we've been lucky enough not to get sick or lose a loved one or our job, it's been a trying time. We're working from home (if at all), kids are home schooling, we miss friends and [...]
With the 2020 season up in the air, any Mets who were entering their walk years, will be suddenly facing free agency. This includes Yoenis Cespedes, Wilson Ramos, and several pitchers, most notably, Marcus Stroman. After the Mets parted with two of their top pitching prospects – Anthony Kay and Simeon Woods Richardson – to [...]
That the hard-throwing, weight lifting Noah Syndergaard finally succumbed to Tommy John surgery wasn't that big of a surprise. After all, the list of triple digit fastball throwers who haven't torn their ulnar collateral ligament is a lot shorter than the list of pitchers with that tell-tale ugly scar on the inside of their arm. [...]
"Here goes MattyMets again with his far-flung optimism," I can hear Chris F saying from miles away. My optimism has as much to do with the state of the National League as my confidence in our current team. Having read through every season preview I can get my hands on, I have a pretty good [...]
There are only 17 days remaining until Mets pitchers and catchers report to Port St. Lucie for 2020 spring training. This past week, they seemingly filled the final, very important vacancy in hiring Luis Rojas to be their new manager. They also resigned Rene Rivera to a non-guaranteed contract with big league incentives to provide [...]
Following the search, hire, and controversial dismissal of Carlos Beltran, the Mets opted to replace him with an in-house candidate and one of the runner-up candidates from their previous search, Luis Rojas. Having been with the Mets organization since 2011, Rojas has been an organizational mainstay with managing stints with the rookie league, low A [...]
The Mets are "nowhere near done" according to a NY Post article this week. Let's hope the unnamed source who provided that juicy quote knows what they're talking about. Despite recently learning that Mets ownership would change for the better, that we'd save millions on Yoenis Cespedes' contract, and that our division rivals have been [...]
There's still a slim chance Zack Wheeler will be in a Mets uniform on opening day. Just as there's a slim chance Anthony Rendon will be manning third base or Mookie Betts will be patrolling center field. Odds are, we've seen our last of Wheeler in blue and orange and it stings. Why? Because a) [...]