With Mike Piazza once again being snubbed for the Hall of Fame, garnering 69.9% of the vote from the BBWAA, people have taken to sharing their outrage that the “greatest hitting catcher of all time” isn’t in the Hall. But why is it that we need that caveat of hitting catcher when we talk about [...]
As we digest from the end of the holidays and a weekend of football, here are some things to get the first work week of 2015 started. With the announcement of the Hall of Fame voting results coming up tomorrow, this is a Cooperstown-heavy version of the Monday Leadoff. Dan Lewis from Amazin' Avenue wrote [...]
At FanGraphs, Josh Barnes posted a wonderful piece of community research concluding that Jon Niese is poised to have a breakout season in 2015. Before continuing reading this article, I’d highly recommend reading what Barnes wrote if you haven’t already. His reasoning is that Niese developed a solid changeup in 2014, leading to its increased [...]
A pleasant good Monday to you, the last one in 2014. Here's some news and notes to get your abridged workweek started. A picture went viral on Twitter showing that Las Vegas has the Mets at 12:1 odds to win the World Series in 2015. On one hand, those odds are probably skewed low by [...]
Grant Bisbee of SB Nation took a look earlier this week at three of the forgotten names in the free agent market: Asdrubal Cabrera, Stephen Drew and Colby Rasmus. While Rasmus, a lefty-hitting outfielder with good pop and not much else, doesn’t really serve as a fit on the 2015 Mets, Cabrera and Drew, both [...]
Here's some news and notes you may have missed this weekend. Dwight Gooden wrote an introspective letter to himself for Derek Jeter's website, The Player's Tribune. It's a nice short read and the advice he gives to his younger self is something that is probably good for all of us to be reminded of from [...]
In an age in baseball where there is a glut of pitching, in an offseason where there is plenty of front-line talent available, and with all the assets the New York Mets have the ability to move, it seems Dillon Gee is the one they are shopping around the most aggressively. Gee is a fine [...]
As you get your work week started, here's a few links and notes you may have missed this weekend: Joel Sherman of the New York Post argues for the Mets to make an aggressive push to acquire Troy Tulowitzki from the Colorado Rockies. I don't find myself agreeing with Sherman very often, but here he [...]
With it becoming more and more evident every day that Wilmer Flores is likely to be the 2015 Opening Day shortstop, the Mets used the Winter Meetings to fill a few gaps in their roster - a second lefty out of the bullpen (Rule 5 draftee Sean Gilmartin and Scott Rice re-signing on a minor [...]
Here are some links and stories you might have missed during the weekend to get your Monday started: Friend of the site Greg Prince of Faith and Fear in Flushing has a rather lengthy piece on Lucas Duda's breakout season, naming him the Nikon Camera Player of the Year Award winner. Prince chronicles how Duda [...]
The Mets were never going to trade for Didi Gregorius. The Diamondbacks asking price was too high (Noah Syndergaard) and Gregorius didn't fit the Mets' need for an offensive-minded shortstop. A platoon-at-best all-glove, no-bat was not going to happen at a steep price. And the glove isn't even that good, as both UZR and DRS [...]
Here's some things to get you caught up on any Mets news you may have missed this holiday weekend: Joel Sherman of the New York Post writes that the Mets' depth in pitching is not something that is likely to be leveraged as part of a blockbuster trade. Sherman argues that with the amount of [...]