Matt Harvey is next up in our preseason projection review series, and to say he put forth a disappointing performance would be...well it would be a gross misrepresentation of the dumpster fire that was his 2017 season. His 2016 season was cut short after just 17 mediocre games and the revelation that he needed surgery [...]
Editor's Note - Before leaving a comment for this story, make sure you have read our new comment policy. The next player in our preseason projection review series spent just over a calendar year and played just shy of a full season's worth of games with the Mets before being offloaded in the 2017 payroll [...]
The next player in our preseason projection review series is the gentle giant, and chronically underappreciated, Lucas Duda. The second-longest tenured Met behind David Wright, Duda had surprisingly little goodwill with Mets fans despite being top four all-time for Mets first basemen in home runs, runs, RBIs, and wRC+. Duda was the first domino to [...]
Next up in our preseason projection review series is former (and future?) Mets second baseman Neil Walker. Walker was yet another casualty of the injury epidemic that hit the team this year as he spent most of June and July sidelined with a hamstring injury. With the season down the tubes, the Mets cut their [...]
The next entry in our preseason projection review series is a tragic tale in more ways than one. You see, Noah Syndergaard was primed to take over the New York rotation by continuing to establish himself as one of the most dominant hurlers in baseball. He was excited by this, as were fans. In fact, [...]
Despite Jeurys Familia's impending suspension for domestic violence when the 2017 season started, the back end of the Mets' bullpen looked to be a strength with Addison Reed holding the fort until his return. Familia was coming off his best season in 2016, earning his first All-Star nod en route to blowing away the Mets' [...]
Will they or won't they? That's the question on Mets fans minds with regard to the next player in our projection review series, Asdrubal Cabrera. The SS/2B/3B has a team option for 2018 worth $8.5 million that, realistically, the team is likely to exercise. Whether that is a okay thing or an not so okay [...]
Next up in our preseason projection review series is Robert Gsellman. I don't think many folks expected such a terrible season for the young righty who dazzled in his 2016 audition. In fact, our reader poll back in February overwhelmingly chose him as the preferred fifth starter heading into the season. To say things didn't [...]
The New York Mets and manager Terry Collins have parted ways after seven seasons, a move that was neither surprising nor unexpected. It brings an end to an era of Mets baseball in which fans experienced a roller coaster of highs and lows both on and off the field. Regardless of how you feel about [...]
Reports suggest that the Mets player drawing the most interest from teams as we approach the trade deadline is interim closer Addison Reed. This isn't surprising, as contending teams seek to bolster their bullpens heading into the season's final months. For his part, Reed is having another solid year, though not quite as impressive as [...]
Earlier this week, the always insightful Charlie Hangley asked a question sitting at the forefront of most Mets fans' minds: are they a second-half team? More specifically, can we expect a mad dash towards the postseason in the season's second half as we've witnessed the last two years? It's a shining, albeit dim, beacon of [...]
There's been a lot of chatter recently about the Mets defensive woes after Terry Collins essentially called his team on it this week. "When you're a team that relies on pitching the way we do, that's built the way we are, it's disappointing when your defense isn't sharp," he noted before the Mets' rained-out game [...]