The 2024 Mets may be greater than the sum of their parts

  “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou’s famous quote was commentary on relationships rather than the state of an MLB franchise, of course, but it nonetheless seems fitting when assessing the Mets’ offseason. As Brian touched on earlier this month, they’ve done what they said they were [...]

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How many starts in center field will Harrison Bader, Brandon Nimmo and others get in 2024?

Recently, Brandon Nimmo was voted as the second-best LF in MLB. It’s always nice to see players on your favorite team rated so highly. But why is everyone so ready to declare Nimmo as a corner outfielder? Sure, in an ideal world, Nimmo is a corner outfielder. But are the 2024 Mets living in an [...]

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On The Athletic’s Mets fan survey 2024

I'm a big fan of The Athletic and encourage any die-hard sports fan to become a member. And Mets fans are in for a treat, as not only do they have two writers devoted to coverage of the team, both Tim Britton and Will Sammon are excellent. That being said, they did a reader survey [...]

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Pete Alonso’s $20 million arbitration salary

One of the items flying under the radar last week was the Arbitration Deadline, on Thursday January 11. The New York Mets had a half dozen players with the right service times – players between three and six years, plus Super Twos. Going to arbitration is almost universally a bad play for teams because they [...]

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Jeff McNeil again will be pivotal in 2024

The fate of a team during the 162-game MLB season rarely hinges a single player, but it can certainly be impacted by the under or overperformance of one. Hardly ever is the overperformance contributing to success talked about, but more often it is the underperformance that is talked about. If you are at all plugged [...]

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Bargain hunting: Best uses of the Mets’ remaining budget

Last week Andy Martino on SNY’s Mets Hot Stove reported that the Mets’ remaining free agent budget for this offseason is around $10 million. Considering the team’s needs of rotation, corner outfield and DH help, that is a tough number to navigate. But assuming that as the constraint, let’s take a look at who the [...]

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Filling out the rotation will be no easy task for the Mets

The top three spots in the 2024 rotation appear to be set.  After a 12-7 rookie season with a 2.98 ERA, the Marcel projections on Baseball-Reference pegs a year of regression for 30-year-old righty Kodai Senga in 2024, sliding down to a 9-7 record with a 3.52 ERA.  There appears to be no logical reason [...]

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The Mets should consider Joey Votto to add to their collection of one-year deals

Perhaps the last thing the 2024 Mets need is to add a 40 year old, lefty-hitting 1B who hit .202 last year and put up a 0.0 fWAR. But this isn’t just any over the hill guy. Instead, this is Joey Votto and he should be available for a song. My interest in Votto would [...]

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Thoughts on Luis Severino, Harrison Bader and Sean Manaea

On Thursday, I gave my overall take on the Mets' offseason so far. In the interim was this email conversation with ChrisF about that very subject. We started off with this question: So, what grade would you give the Mets this offseason and why? Chris: I’m giving the present state of the off season as [...]

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Short leash: Mets fans are already impatient with David Stearns

“That’s why they brought him [David Stearns] here, I’m telling you. [Steve] Cohen lost so much money and has to pay $100 million in luxury tax, and this guy is here to run the team like the Brewers.” – WFAN (NY) Radio host and self-proclaimed huge Mets fan Joe Benigno on the air. A large [...]

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The Mets’ 2023-24 offseason or how to burn hundreds of millions of dollars

In general, my preference as a sports fan is for my teams to try to assemble the best clubs they can. In other words, tanking is not my ideal way to go. But sometimes your team is in a spot where tanking isn’t really an option. And then you have the predicament of what’s the [...]

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A last look at age-based minor league comps for Christian Scott

This article is a companion piece to yesterday’s exploration into the likelihood of 25-year-old Christian Scott making the majors and being a success at his relatively advanced age as a prospect. Yesterday we looked at players making their MLB debut at age 25. Today, we’ll look at prospects at similar ages in Double-A to what [...]

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