The trade-deadline edition
The Mets’ offense was so good for so long that it became okay to imagine that it could overcome mediocre starting pitching. Then the second half started against a Marlins squad that had six starting pitchers on the IL and the Mets’ offense went into hibernation. Normally, you would shrug your shoulders and say something [...]
It is rare in sports, and in life in general, that you see a partnership work out equally well for both partners. For the New York Mets and Harrison Bader, they seem to have struck a perfect chord, as he has flourished this season. The Mets signed Bader this past offseason to a one year, [...]
It’s the All-Star break, which seems like as good a time as any to determine midterm grades for the Mets players and management. This is a subjective process, which will factor in not only performance but also how the individual is doing compared to expectations. We’ll list batter, pitcher, and management sections, each done alphabetically. [...]
The Mets' 16-8 record in June of 2024 was their second-best month of June in team history. It certainly was a departure from the awful months of June in the past, where their lackluster play usually created a huge hole that was often hard to climb out of, even with historically productive strong summer months [...]
With the Mets surging ahead of the All-Star Break into the third wild card spot backed on a strong offensive performance in the post-Grimace Era, the pitching staff is poised to get a shot in the arm after the All-Star Break with the impending return of ace Kodai Senga. The 2023 All-Star and runner-up in [...]
The MLB Draft begins Sunday night at 7 p.m. Eastern and the Mets have the 19th pick. There’s no consensus among the draft gurus on who the Mets might pick, which isn’t all that unusual given the spot they’re drafting. Of course, the Mets are drafting at that spot due to the 10-pick penalty for [...]
What a difference a month makes. At this time in June, the Mets were over the pond, taking on the otherworldly Philadelphia Phillies in the MLB London Series – to give it its full Carnaby Street moniker. At that point, their record stood at 27-35. This had actually been an improvement over their season-low, achieved [...]
After 92 games, the Mets are 47-45, which is more or less where most people figured they would be. But the way they’ve gotten there has been quite different from the blueprint drawn up before the season began. Let’s ignore cold starts and hot finishes and instead focus on what the players have done over [...]
This is the second version of our Power Rankings. Once again, Dalton Allison and Gus Livaditis join me in this exercise. The three of us produce individual rankings, with our top team getting 30 points and our bottom team getting 1. Then all three are added together to arrive at the rankings below. The number [...]
For over a month Mets fans were waiting for this stretch in July where the club would play all of these games against sub-.500 teams. But what looked like a great opportunity to vault the team comfortably above .500 has not worked that way at all. First up was the Astros and the Mets proceeded [...]
One of the many challenges facing front offices, managers and fans alike is how to balance what’s happened overall versus what’s happened recently and which to put more weight on when evaluating things. Sometimes there’s a reason why things have happened differently in a select span versus how they’ve been overall. For example, we know [...]