No matter how closely you follow the Mets this or any year, there’s always things to learn. On this list of 10 things – if you’re being honest with yourself there’s at least one thing you did not know yesterday. If you knew all 10 – drop me a note and come write for the [...]
Full disclosure: The idea for this article was blatantly stolen from my co-writer on Mets360.com, Brian Joura. While he focused on the offensive side, let’s now take a look at the pitching side. It’s not easy to pull up exclusively late season promotions, so the criteria I used was pitchers age 23 or younger, making [...]
Friday night, Mets manager Terry Collins made the decision to drop the struggling Curtis Granderson from the top of the lineup to the sixth hole. He made an inclination that this will be a longer-term move rather than a one-or-two-game banishment. Granderson entered play Friday hitting a paltry .211/.313/.354. Since the All-Star break it is [...]
It feels like Wilmer Flores has been a Met forever. He was signed seven years ago at the age of 16 and has been much ballyhooed as the Mets best offensive prospect. He has been ranked as a top 100 prospect in all of baseball on multiple occasions and famously destroyed Triple-A over the last [...]
Barring a miracle, it looks like Noah Syndergaard is going to spend his entire 2014 campaign in Triple A. Many fans believe that it isn’t the right approach to handling Syndergaard, especially after promoting Dilson Herrera from Double A. With Syndergaard not getting the call to the bigs this year, the Mets could opt to [...]
Who are Dilson Herrera's comps among past players for the Mets? It's not an easy question to answer. Given his age and his defensive position, Jose Reyes might jump to mind. But Reyes was promoted in June and received 292 PA in his rookie season. Let's look for comps based on age and expected playing [...]
Since being recalled to the majors, Matt den Dekker has played better than his detractors thought he was capable of and nearly as well as his proponents wildly wished. He’s shown the ability to hit, he’s cut down significantly on his strikeouts and his speed helps him on both sides of the game. The question [...]
The Mets are not going to win 90 games this season, and that is a fact. It is mathematically impossible for the Mets to win 90 games, and the team’s elimination numbers are running low, so hope for the 2014 season is now officially lost. Luckily, the playoffs are not the only thing September baseball [...]
Labor Day's game was pretty brutal. The Mets team had a tremendous six-error game against the hated Miami Marlins, in which young second baseman Dilson Herrera committed two of those blunders. He also had a spectacular day at the plate, however, hitting his first career home run, and first career triple, on his way to [...]
Surely you were aware the New York Mets were tied to trade rumors leading up to the waiver-trade deadline, with Bartolo Colon's name being front and center. With the Los Angeles Angels losing Garrett Richards for the foreseeable future, and them needing a quality, veteran arm, they needed another good arm for the stretch run. [...]
“All I’ll say is we have higher expectations than we’ve had in the past.” -- Sandy Alderson, February 2014 Saturday’s night loss made it mathematically impossible for the Mets to win 90 games. If you recall, back in February, Alderson allegedly told team executives that the Mets should challenge for that many wins this season. [...]
Over 160 career ABs, Matt den Dekker has shown that he is most likely not going to be the Mets everyday LF for the foreseeable future. We all know he can play the position, but he can’t hit. His K rate has decreased in his current stint on the Mets, but he isn’t hitting for [...]