At least this year they got it over with at the beginning of the season, rather than fool us into believing that they had a shot, only to stick a dagger in our hearts later in the year. The “May Swoon” has been unbelievably painful to watch. On Saturday, May 25, Luis Severino took a [...]
From April 26 to May 1, the Mets played six home games and scored 15 runs. It’s a tough way to make a living and they might have been fortunate to win the two games they did in that stretch. Since then, the offense has scored five or more runs 12 times, yet they’ve gone [...]
The Mets began the year with an awkward roster. Because they signed J.D. Martinez late in the year, he wasn’t ready to start the season. Instead of using Mark Vientos as the DH until Martinez was ready to face MLB pitching, the Mets opted to keep two backup middle infielders in Zack Short and Joey [...]
"Your conscience awakes and you see your mistakes
And you wish someone would buy your confessions
The days miss their mark, and the night gets so dark
And some kind of message comes through to you
Some kind of message shoots through..."
Have the New York Mets already decided it is “starting figuring out next year” time? Has someone in the front office decided the Mets need to be well above .500 before rolling into June, and if not, the decision to fish or cut bait must be made quickly. Even as the electrons were drying on [...]
Baseball-Reference shows that so far here in 2024, the 30 MLB teams have combined to hit 1,620 HR in 1,564 games, which is a little over one per game. It rounds to 1.04 HR/G. The Yankees have hit the most homers in the league with 80 in 54 games, an average of 1.48 per game. [...]
We’ve arrived at a fairly standard juncture in a baseball season when fans and pundits opine on where the season is headed based on the results thus far. We’re roughly 30% into the 2024 campaign and, depending on your personal viewpoint, it’s either getting late early or we still need additional time to assess. The [...]
The most interesting players to me are the ones where reasonable people can look at and see things in a completely different way. At various part of their careers, ChrisF and I have been on opposite sides of things when discussing Lucas Duda, Juan Lagares, Brandon Nimmo, Alex Torres and Zack Wheeler, among others. And [...]
Up until this point, Citi Field has played as an extreme pitcher’s park, which is making the pitchers look much better than they are in reality. Mets’ pitchers have a 2.89 ERA in their home park, compared to a 5.31 ERA on the road. Knowing this, let’s take a look at how the pitchers have [...]
Generally, work starts on this post earlier in the month, taking an idea and building on it as the team progresses up until it needs to be submitted. After the recent lack of performance of Edwin Diaz, it was very tempting to switch gears and move this into that direction. But there is not much [...]
At the risk of angering the gods, this post is about how today’s starting pitcher has been pitching great. Sean Manaea, despite his uncharacteristic struggles with walks, has the best ERA and FIP among all Mets starting pitchers. And unlike Jose Butto, who was getting the majority of his starts in the 2024 extreme pitcher’s [...]
If you ask anyone on the New York Mets or in their orbit about the performance of the team so far this season, you’d get a consistent resounding response that it has been disappointing so far. They are under .500, and spare for some bright moments, the team has not felt like a cohesive unit [...]