I know…I know… It’s been a week, now, and the last thing we need is yet another post-mortem on the Mets’ 2016 season. The wound from their loss in the Wild Card “Series” is still fresh and there are other goings-on in the wide, wide world of baseball. The Toronto Blue Jays stole the Mets’ [...]
Everyone reading this has probably watched at least 1,000 MLB games, most of them involving the Mets. One of the reasons we watch is to see something we’ve never seen before, especially if it involves our team. If you’re a greybeard, you probably remember the thrill of seeing Dave Kingman, a true home run threat. [...]
2016 is a year where the Mets overachieved. After a painful loss to the Giants, it is time to look forward to 2017. Injuries decimated the team in 2016. Only time will tell which players can successfully come back and make contributions to the 2017 team. The 2016 Mets relied on the long ball to [...]
For years, all we heard about was the trouble the Mets had finding a third baseman. Then Howard Johnson (807 games) and David Wright (1,571) showed up and we don’t hear much about that any more. Still, 162 people have played at least one game at third base in franchise history. What doesn’t get talked [...]
OK, we’ve done the Kumbaya thing about the 2016 Mets, the plucky group that overcame obstacles to make the playoffs. Now it’s time to turn our thoughts to the 2017 team and instead of being the scrappy team that beats the odds, we want to assemble a team that dominates the opposition and waltzes into [...]
Right now we all have an open wound from the sting of our disappointing Wilcard game loss. But given a little time and perspective, we will all look back on this season fondly. Coming off a 2015 World Series appearance and armed with the best young pitching staff in baseball, plus the return of Yoenis [...]
It would not be hard to find players in the Mets locker room to whom you could point and say, “without (fill in the blank) the Mets would not be in the Wild Card Playoff game.” You surely could say that about Yoenis Cespedes, Noah Syndergaard, Curtis Granderson, Addison Reed, and Jeurys Familia. Let’s throw [...]
It’s Wild Card eve for the Mets and here are notes on a dozen players to get you ready for Wednesday’s game against the Giants. Jay Bruce – He has a six-game hitting streak and since Sept. 1 he has a higher OPS (.846 to .675) than Yoenis Cespedes. Asdrubal Cabrera – Since returning from [...]
Back in August I wrote a piece about Noah Syndergaard as he was in the midst of a weird funk that began with his July 8th start against the Nationals. He left that game early with what the team labeled "arm fatigue" and hit a stretch where he had high pitch counts and trouble going [...]
The Philadelphia Phillies may be playing out the string of a transition season, but don't expect this division rival to lie down for us to waltz into the playoffs. There's a long history of Phillies players, announcers, and fans wanting to stick it to the blue and orange. This is a bad team for sure, [...]
According to ESPN, the Mets have a 98.6% chance of making the playoffs as a Wild Card team. A quick Google search appears to show that the Wild Card play-in game is its own separate round, meaning you can have a 25-man roster for that game and, if you win, immediately turn around and adjust [...]