Yesterday at Newsday, Marc Carig – one of the top Mets beat writers – had a very lengthy and comprehensive analysis of the Mets organizational hitting philosophy. It was excellent. Carig talked to people at every level of the organization and ended up dispelling just about every myth about the system. The fact of the [...]
After a 5-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates Monday afternoon, the Mets have announced they have fired hitting coach Dave Hudgens and released pitcher Jose Valverde. The Mets offense ranks 12th in the National League in Batting Average (.237), ninth in OBP (.310), 14th in SLG (.352) and 13th in wOBA (.295). Jose Valverde has [...]
Rumors of David Wright’s demise are greatly exaggerated. When Curtis Granderson stumbled out of the gate, the fans quickly began to jeer. When you sign a 4-year, $60 million contract you are expected to perform at a high level immediately. But when Wright stumbled and struggled to regain his footing after nearly five weeks, the [...]
In a season thusfar filled with plenty of offensive woes, one of the few bright spots in the Mets lineup has been Daniel Murphy. Murphy is hitting .318/.368/.451 through his first 41 games. His 1.7 fWAR not only leads Mets hitters by a wide margin, but is already the third-highest total of his career. His [...]
After a dramatic 11th inning victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, Terry Collins told reporters that he was close to making Jeurys Familia the closer. Familia would already be the fourth different option used by the Mets after Bobby Parnell, Jose Valverde and Kyle Farnsworth. “Three days in a row, pounding the strike zone, [...]
Lady Luck is a cruel mistress. Just as easily as she can make you look good (see Juan Lagares hitting .338/.360/.507) she can make you look like a fool (see Curtis Granderson hitting .173/.281/.279). Her best and most redeeming quality (depending on how you look at it) is that no matter the upswings and downswings [...]
It has been a rough start to the season for two-thirds of Sandy Alderson’s “big” free agency acquisitions. While Bartolo Colon has gotten off to a decent start, Chris Young and Curtis Granderson have stumbled somewhat in the early going. Young’s struggles have been much less alarming than Grandersons, mostly because of the much smaller [...]
From the New York Post: “It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime,” Wilson writes. “I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets organization. They seemed to have no identity. “My concern was that the character of the players they were looking for superseded the talent they brought to [...]
On Sunday, Terry Collins did some interesting shuffling of the Mets lineup. What it essentially boiled down to was he flipped Curtis Granderson and Daniel Murphy in the two and four holes, a somewhat confusing swap. Collins' reasons for the change were, as Ron Darling put it, strange. He said that he made the change [...]
After 18 months of teasing, the New York Mets have finally broken up with Ike Davis, sending him to the Pittsburgh Pirates for minor league reliever Zach Thornton and a player to be named later. According to CBS's Jon Heyman, the PTBNL is "significant", so there's that. Right now, this trade looks like nothing to [...]