The Mets are now ten games out of first place as they begin an 11 game home stand that leads into the All-Star break. The last road trip through Pittsburgh and Atlanta was a “gut-punch” to a team that was striving so hard to get over a trend of losing close games. The Mets lost [...]
Mets fans can be baffling. One of the more prominent practices of the Flushing faithful lately has been tossing around various trade proposals to improve the team. Many of these hypothetical rants and narratives can be found on Twitter as well as numerous local publications and blogs. Daniel Murphy, the NL hits leader, is currently [...]
Dillon Gee threw 50 pitches off the mound yesterday and is slotted to make a rehab start in the Gulf Coast league on Monday or Tuesday. If all goes well, Gee should be recalled and installed back into the Mets starting rotation sometime at the end of June. The candidates to lose their slots are [...]
Summer is approaching, and in Brooklyn that means baseball is imminent. Tonight, the Brooklyn Cyclones open up their season in Staten Island with Amed Rosario expected to start at shortstop. The 18 year old Dominican is in his second professional season and is currently the Mets’ fifth highest prospect according to MLB.com. The major leagues [...]
After an impressive 4-1 win over the Phillies Friday night with the aid of 15 strikeouts from the pitching staff, the Mets have now won three games straight. A tumultuous home stand cost batting coach Dave Hudgens his job and the fans, media, and more importantly the front office are starting to question the Mets’ direction. Although the offense has sputtered despite [...]
Let’s not sugar coat it, the Mets offense needs a jolt. Going into to tonight’s game against Arizona, the Mets rank 14th in the National League in BA (.234) and SLG (.351). In the “friendly” confines of Citi Field, it only gets worse as they are hitting .213 and .325 in the same categories. This [...]
There’s no need to sugar coat it, this last road trip by the Mets was a brutal one. Coors field as per usual served as a buzz saw for the Mets pitchers as they relinquished 28 runs in the first three games before salvaging the final one of the series. Miami was no respite for [...]
The starting rotation has been the fuel behind the Mets early season success. In the last 10 games, the starter ERA is 1.84, and the bullpen has backed them up enabling the team to win seven of them. More importantly, the Mets have been in each game, for the most part, by the time the [...]
The 2014 season didn’t get off to a fast start for Vic Black. In ten spring training appearances, Black pitched to a 5.79 ERA and 2.46 WHIP in 9.1 IP, a showing that promptly had him demoted to minor league camp much earlier than anyone could have expected. Fans and upper management envisioned Black as [...]
Mets’ nine game road trip is off to a good start after they salvaged the rubber game of a three game series beating Atlanta 6-4. The bullpen was superb tallying nine scoreless innings versus the Braves, a stark difference from the opening series against the Nationals. While the bullpen’s season-long success is still very much [...]
Well, you couldn’t have scripted a rougher start than the Met’s opening series against the Nationals. The Mets, one strike away from an exciting, hard-fought win, lost a heartbreaker Opening Day after an implosion of the bullpen in the late innings. After two more lackluster games, the sweep became inevitable culminating with five more runs [...]
Opening Day is Monday and the Mets are still finalizing their roster as they prepare for a two game exhibition series in Montreal. Jose Valverde has officially made the team after being placed on the 40 man roster. In nine games this spring, “Papa Grande” has pitched ten innings ,yielding ten hits and only one [...]