Sending a message to players is important to do if there are individuals who think they are above the team. The Mets have had many ups and downs with one of their young starting pitchers throughout the past couple of seasons, whether it was because of stuff posted on social media, comments made to the [...]
The best thing about the World Series is that the Mets will be playing in it for the first time since 2000. That’s enough to make any Mets fan happy. What makes it even better for me is that the Mets got there by essentially abandoning one of the front office’s core beliefs: That the [...]
One of the main (baseball-related) story lines for the Mets National League Championship Series (NLCS) against the Cubs was high-end pitch velocity. Specifically, the Cubs as a team hit poorly (.228 BA according to Baseball Savant) as a team against pitches 95mph and above. The Mets, as a team, threw 2,510 pitches at 95mph or [...]
Pretty much all fans of professional football dislike the fact that most years there is a built-in two week wait separating the NFC and AFC championship games and the Super Bowl. There have been a few years when the wait was only one week and it seems that these years have had more entertaining and [...]
Yesterday, Charlie wrote an article at the site discussing, among other things, the contributions of Sandy Alderson to the NL pennant winners. A couple of people in the comments were not overjoyed with Alderson receiving praise. One felt that Omar Minaya should receive more credit than he gets and another thought that the rebuild took [...]
As a Mets fan, a baseball fan or even just an appreciator of the human condition, it’s impossible to not love Bartolo Colon. The hefty and colorful 42-year-old makes us cheer, laugh and nod in approval with gutty performances on the mound, comical swings at the plate and big brotherly support in the clubhouse. His [...]
When Sandy Alderson became general manager of the Mets, he begged us fans to be patient. It would be a long road to “changing the culture” of a dysfunctional, losing clubhouse, full of bloated contracts and outsized egos. Disaster seemed to follow this franchise like a parasitic twin. If it wasn’t a shirtless minor league [...]
Here was my take on Daniel Murphy on September 25: In his last 11 games, Murphy has a .370/.396/.761 line, with 10 of his 17 hits going for extra bases. He’s scored seven runs and driven in 10 during this stretch, in which he’s struck out just three times in 48 PA. Murphy may be [...]
The New York Mets are the champions of the National League. On a night when Daniel Murphy hit another ho-hum homer, on a night when Steven Matz showed what he could do on a national stage, on a night David Wright has waited for since he was a raw rookie in 2004, the star was [...]
Steven Matz is one of the best young pitchers in the game, and a key part to the Mets core young pitching rotation. The only lefty on the staff, Matz was given the opportunity by Mets’ manager Terry Collins to pitch in game four of the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, [...]
The Mets are in the postseason. That sounds weird. In any event, the Mets currently stand two games above the Cubs in the NLCS. It’s never okay to say a series is over before the final out, but confidence is key for the Mets. While the Mets will be sending Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz, and [...]
It is by now a secret to no one around the league that the Mets have a formidable pitching staff. Young and full of high velocity stuff, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard have been lighting up the October competition to an even more impressive degree than most thought possible. After all, this is [...]