After their win against the Phillies yesterday, the Mets' record sits at a paltry 37-42. They're 9.5 games behind both the division-leading Nationals and the second wild-card spot and, despite a recent run of success, obviously playing well below expectations. It's not quite an insurmountable challenge, but it's highly unlikely considering players continue to drop [...]
It's tough to find something positive to write about the Mets as they continue to find ways to lose. Perhaps it's more accurate to say they can't seem to find ways to win. Either way, in losing to the Braves in walk-off fashion yesterday the Mets fell to a rebuilding team that currently sits above [...]
What do you do when your team built on pitching is, well, bad at pitching? To be fair, it's more a case of "pitching badly" than "bad at pitching," but this team was explicitly built on the concept of run prevention vice run production. That was the understanding, anyway, with the hope that a possible [...]
This past Wednesday, Robert Gsellman made his first start since the May 13th stinker that finally prompted the Mets to skip his next start and use him out of the bullpen. He threw six innings of six-hit ball while giving up three earned runs and striking out three. Although it was against one of the [...]
There's a lot of bad news surrounding the Mets these days. Most of it has to do with injuries, and boy do they just keep piling up. It's tough to look on the bright side when so many important pieces keep going down and the season looks increasingly bleak. One shining beacon of hope for [...]
Surprise! Travis d'Arnaud is hurt again. The Mets placed the injury magnet on the disabled list with a bone bruise on his right wrist on Friday and he's expected to miss at least a couple of weeks. This is an annual event at this point, but the circumstances surrounding it fall in line with what [...]
Thursday was a rough day for Matt Harvey. He stumbled his way through just 4 1/3 innings after being given short notice that he'd be starting against the Braves in place of Noah Syndergaard. After starting off strong in the first, he got knocked around for five hits and six earned runs while walking a [...]
One of the many preseason sources of heartburn for both the Mets and their fans was just what to do with young outfielder Michael Conforto after it became clear that the team would be unable to trade Jay Bruce. On the surface, there was nothing particularly new about the dilemma. The team had a crowded [...]
Back in August I wrote a piece about Noah Syndergaard as he was in the midst of a weird funk that began with his July 8th start against the Nationals. He left that game early with what the team labeled "arm fatigue" and hit a stretch where he had high pitch counts and trouble going [...]
The Mets defeated the Marlins 5-2 in Miami tonight, taking the rubber game of the series. Seth Lugo got the start in this one, and he was very Lugo-like again. He gave up two runs on five hits with three walks and two strikeouts. He worked in and out of trouble all night, living up [...]
The Las Vegas 51s Mets lost to the Phillies 10-8 tonight at Citi Field. So close... Boy oh boy. Where do we start? This one started off a laugher as Sean Gilmartin, newest member of the Mets' MASH rotation, was the one to finally fall through the thin ice they've avoided cracking somehow thusfar. He [...]
The Mets have 39 players on their expanded active roster. That's tied with the Dodgers for the most in baseball. That's also literally every player on their 40-man that isn't recovering from some surgery or another. That's a lot of players, and the dugout and bullpen are crowded with guys looking to get some kind [...]