A few days ago, Brian Joura posted a poll asking how the best way for the Mets to add a top-of-the-rotation starter would be, and 73% of respondents said they would rather the team do so through free agency instead of through a trade or international posting. With a market containing Corbin Burnes, Max Fried [...]
If hope springs eternal on Opening Day, the day after the end of the baseball season is over is bittersweet. That describes what a good number of Mets fans are feeling today after the 10-5 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the decisive Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday. There’s [...]
Sometimes prospects arrive with great fanfare and after a long time of fanbases pleading with their team to call the player up. Other times, necessity forces a team’s hand to call up a heralded prospect. The matter of the Mets calling up Luisangel Acuna from Triple-A Syracuse to make his Major League debut over the [...]
With the Mets surging ahead of the All-Star Break into the third wild card spot backed on a strong offensive performance in the post-Grimace Era, the pitching staff is poised to get a shot in the arm after the All-Star Break with the impending return of ace Kodai Senga. The 2023 All-Star and runner-up in [...]
The idea for this article began with a question that I pondered yesterday during the broadcast of the Brooklyn Cylcones, the Mets’ High-A affiliate, and the Hudson Valley Renegades: Do relief pitchers tend to work at a faster pace than starting pitchers? While that is not the scope of this particular piece, it got me [...]
On Monday morning, the Mets announced the promotion of two-way player Nolan McLean to Double-A Binghamton after a strong start to the season with the Brooklyn Cyclones. Rated as the No. 11 prospect in the Mets system by Baseball America, McLean was the Mets 3rd round pick in the 2023 MLB Draft out of Oklahoma [...]
On Sunday afternoon, Jose Butto took the mound and faced two challenging tasks: taking the mound on the day that the Mets retired Dwight Gooden’s No. 16, and facing a hot Kansas City Royals team. The 26-year-old right-hander rose to the occasion and then some – tossing 6.0 shutout innings while striking out a career-high [...]
This offseason was unlike any other in the Steve Cohen era of Mets baseball, noted more for the team’s austerity on the free agent market than the previous few years. There are myriad factors for that, but even with some very good players still available, the team seems willing to stand pat with the group [...]
Mid-February is usually a fantastic time to be a baseball fan. Pitchers and catchers have reported to Florida and Arizona, leading to tons of stories about who is in competition for a roster spot, who is in the best shape of their life, and oodles of cell phone videos shot through fences of simulated games. [...]
Last week Andy Martino on SNY’s Mets Hot Stove reported that the Mets’ remaining free agent budget for this offseason is around $10 million. Considering the team’s needs of rotation, corner outfield and DH help, that is a tough number to navigate. But assuming that as the constraint, let’s take a look at who the [...]
As the Mets continue the march to 2024, bolstering the starting rotation has been the team’s priority as of late, with the team’s pursuit of Yoshinobu Yamamoto (as well as many other clubs’) taking up a lot of the hot stove focus since the conclusion of the Winter Meetings. While the team certainly needs to [...]
Even when you think you have enough starting pitching, the rigors of a 162-game season often test that to the limit. The obvious key to overcoming that is not just depth, but quality depth. That is an area that the Mets were seriously lacking in 2023, a weakness exposed first by injuries and then at [...]