If you look at the current payroll for the 2015 Mets, you’ll notice that because of arbitration, the Mets only have 4 players that have a guaranteed salary: David Wright, Curtis Granderson, Bartolo Colon and Jon Niese. Everyone else is due for arbitration. That’s pretty amazing. You generally only see that 2 or 3 years [...]
The 2014 Padres actually finished with a respectable record of 77-85. Respectable because well, if you remember how awful their offense was in the first half of the season, you probably thought they wouldn’t even sniff 80 wins. The Padres once again were last in the National League in scoring, scoring just 3.3 runs per [...]
There haven’t been any conclusive studies, but many fans (myself included) will tell you that age 27 is the average age for when a player “breaks out”. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Clayton Kershaw, etc. Maybe breakout isn’t what we are looking for. Maybe we should look for [...]
In talking to a fellow Mets fan about my article from last week (Can the Mets Win 100 Games Next Year?) we kept coming back to circle around and talk about Jerry Koosman. It was probably blasphemous that I would compare the 2015 rotation and saying that they could be better than Koosman/Tom Seaver. I [...]
Sure, anything can happen…right? Can the Mets increase their win total from 79 this year to 100 next year? A 21 win leap would be the 3rd largest win total increase from one year to the next. The 1968 Mets won 73 games, and then 1969 Mets won exactly 100, a 27 win jump. The [...]
In honor of One Hit Wonder day, I went through and dug up some of the best Mets “one-season” wonders and formed a sort of “All-Star” team. Many of these players went on to have successful career post Mets, but we are only counting Mets seasons. Some qualifications, aside from relievers most of the players [...]
It’s true. Daniel Murphy just might be the most untradeable person on the Mets. For reasons that make absolutely no sense. Nobody but the Mets sees him as a long term answer at 2B. Many have argued (Joel Sherman of the New York post comes to mind) that he should be pushed as a super [...]
Full disclosure: The idea for this article was blatantly stolen from my co-writer on Mets360.com, Brian Joura. While he focused on the offensive side, let’s now take a look at the pitching side. It’s not easy to pull up exclusively late season promotions, so the criteria I used was pitchers age 23 or younger, making [...]
Over 160 career ABs, Matt den Dekker has shown that he is most likely not going to be the Mets everyday LF for the foreseeable future. We all know he can play the position, but he can’t hit. His K rate has decreased in his current stint on the Mets, but he isn’t hitting for [...]
That’s a pretty blasphemous headline to some people. It’s hard enough to compare the offensive and pitching stats from one era to another, so imagine how hard it is to do with defense. We don’t have the ability to really watch an extremely large portion of Willie Mays career because baseball wasn’t televised as it [...]
This is what we’ve been waiting for since we made the R.A. Dickey trade. Travis d’Arnaud has not only finally put it all together, but he’s been much more than a league average starting catcher for the last two months. Since his recall after his demotion, d’Arnaud has put up a slash line of .273/.318/.503/.822 [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about park factors and focused more on the hitters’ perspective rather than the pitchers perspective. It’s not a perfect method to predict future performance, but knowing how a ballpark plays is important to better get a grasp on a prospect at just a pure statistical level. On the other [...]