One of the first moves that new Mets owner Steve Cohen announced as he worked through the sale approval process was the return of former General Manager Sandy Alderson as the team's president. This move was generally met with praise, and to some a sign that Cohen wasn't simply going to storm in with his [...]
There was a time, long ago, when yours truly was so aboard the hype train for a certain young Mets slugger that he preposterously suggested that said slugger could become the franchise's future home run king. To be fair, the Mets aren't exactly known for having an illustrious history of mashers. Darryl Strawberry, the franchise [...]
One of the first roster decisions Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen, or whoever is running the show in the Steve Cohen era, will need to make as the team retools for 2021 is whether or not to pick up the $10 million team option on catcher Wilson Ramos. Ramos was one of the first [...]
As another season in which the Mets were expected to compete (even before the playoffs were expanded) whimpers to an ignominious end, there do remain some bright spots in an otherwise weird and disappointing campaign. One of the shiniest is the youthful offensive core that ranked as one of the league's best as the young [...]
Leave it to the Mets to take a seemingly obvious decision and make it in the most excruciatingly inept way with what appears to be an almost embarrassing lack of forethought. After days of refusing to commit to Steven Matz's next start and flirting with the idea of moving Seth Lugo into the rotation, the [...]
It might be slightly hyperbolic to call 2020 a hellscape, but the good news is that baseball is officially back to return some sense of normalcy to our everyday lives. Despite feeling like we're in the opening montage of a post-apocalyptic movie, baseball provides a welcome reprieve from the onslaught of seemingly endless bad news. [...]
Major League Baseball's proposed 60-game season is tentatively set to start in less than a month, but it's certainly more than simply a shortened version of the marathon we've grown accustomed to over the last century. Beyond the reduced number of games, there are aspects of the season that, in many ways, will make it [...]
Did that article title make you throw up a little? That's understandable. Like it or not, however, the designated hitter (DH) is coming to the National League (NL) for the 2020 season. It will once again vanish into the ether in 2021 like some bad dream, but it will most certainly come back for good [...]
Two of the most interesting things about Mets pitcher Steven Matz have (mostly) nothing to do with his numbers on the field. Like teammate Jacob deGrom, Matz consistently goes about his business in a professional manner that contrasts with the club chaos that often surrounds him. Perhaps more interesting, however, is that he isn't really [...]
News of Noah Syndergaard's Tommy John surgery, which occurred successfully this past Thursday in Florida, wasn't really all that surprising given the prevalence of the procedure across baseball and the max effort delivery of his 100+ mph heaters. It was actually more surprising that he was the lone outlier in his own rotation for two [...]
It feels like ages since the Mets entered a season with an offense widely considered to be a potent weapon, but that's the case as we head into a 2020 campaign replete with high expectations. A lineup stacked with reigning Rookie of the Year Pete Alonso, a resurgent Michael Conforto, a rising J.D. Davis, a [...]
According FanGraphs' Steamer system, the 2020 New York Mets are projected to have the top bullpen in the National League and the third-best relief corps in all of baseball with an even 5.0 fWAR. That's a seemingly preposterous notion to a fan base that suffered through a season sunk by what was, for large parts [...]