It’s already started. The 2014 season ended only a week ago, with the stirring victory by the San Francisco Giants over the Kansas City Royals. Before the smoke cleared from the victory riots by the Bay, before the Giants’ love-in parade ended – seriously, Hunter Pence is still on the podium – before Royals fans [...]
The World Series ended last night, you may have heard. As soon as the ball settled into Pablo Sandoval’s glove near the third base coach’s box, we on the outside could detect an almost audible click: the Silly Season has begun. Free agency 2014-15 is exactly five-and-a-half hours old at this writing and I’m sure [...]
If you’ve been following along, you’ve seen that we here at Mets360 were engaged in a project where each of us got to be the General Manager of an existing MLB team…for a week. It was my great good fortune to draw the defending National League Champion San Francisco Giants. I found that winning a [...]
We’re winding down our projection review series. Today, we’ll look to the future – a future we all thought was closer than it turned out to be. Met fans were pretty lucky in 2012 and 2013 – all evidence to the contrary. In 2012, we got to witness Matt Harvey’s bursting arrival. From his very [...]
Our projection review series continues with one of the larger enigmas of the 2014 Mets. Dillon Gee was coming off a surprisingly productive 2013. He logged a career-best 199 innings pitched, with above average rate stats, his 1.218 WHIP in particular. All signs pointed to a continuation of that trend in 2014, so much so [...]
Next up in our projection review series, let‘s look back at the surprisingly fine season turned in by Bartolo Colon. When Colon signed on in the off-season, he was counted on to replace a good chunk of the pitching production that was lost when Matt Harvey had to have his elbow surgically repaired. After a [...]
Next up in our projection review series, we’ll take a look at the forgotten man of the Mets, Eric Young, Jr. In spring training, Manager Terry Collins caused a small stir when he off-handedly mentioned that Young, Jr. – with his superlative speed -- would make an ideal lead-off hitter for a club that was [...]
Next up in our projection review series, we’ll take a look at first base. When 2014 dawned, the situation was murky, to say the least. Projections could only be made based on strong opinion, rather than history. Nobody had any idea how much playing time was going to be doled out between the nominal incumbent [...]
It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma… That is a famous quote by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, made in 1939. He was trying to forecast what Russia would do in the face of confrontation with Hitler’s Germany, but he may as well have been talking about the 2015 off-season for [...]
Next up in our projection review series – just to see how we did and how wacky some of our projections were – is Juan Lagares. Lagares opened a lot of eyes in 2013 with his outstanding defense, but no one was quite sure what he would do with the bat. The least optimistic of [...]
One of Mets360’s favorite blogs, "2 Guys Talking Mets Baseball," is shutting down . We’re all going to miss Mike & Jimmy’s daily argy-bargy, so in tribute, my friend Brian Joura and I started musing on a few last acts, including the final overs of 2014… Charlie Hangley: For all the guff Terry Collins gets, [...]
Word keeps dribbling out that it’s all but official that the Mets will be extending Sandy Alderson’s contract. According to a source, owner and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon will confirm this worst-kept-secret quite soon. There are some among Mets’ fans who despair at this news. They’ll deride the Mets’ GM as “SMS: Small Market [...]