Saturday night, Jenrry Mejia picked up a save in his eighth consecutive game. One of the keys to the strong play by the team recently is that the back end of the pen in Jeurys Familia and Mejia have provided shut down performances. Yet while the final results have been great, Mejia has allowed a [...]
There have been a few articles from fellow Mets360 writers this week on Lucas Duda and I wanted to delve a bit deeper for those people who might have been interested as to exactly why Duda is having a career season. For the majority of Duda’s career, he’s been in a battle to fight for [...]
Friday night Sandy Alderson made an appearance in the SNY booth and chatted with the broadcasters. Alderson is a master of talking a lot without really saying anything and has never been above bending the truth to serve his immediate purposes. Then factor in that the broadcasters aren’t really allowed 100% freedom in asking questions [...]
The trade deadline has come and gone and Daniel Murphy is still a Met, Hooray! Murphy is a big part of the new “soul” of the franchise and, as the Mets slowly round into respectability, I’d like him to stay a part of it. The trade deadline was particularly good for some teams, like Boston, [...]
Once again, the July 31 deadline came and went. And once again, Sandy Alderson and co. did nothing. There’s no shortage of criticism – justified fans clamoring for proof of progress in dealing prospects for an overpriced bat in a limited market, but the deadline has passed and there’s no time for crying over spilled [...]
"While we were active in conversations—although not super active—we didn’t make any deals, I think going in we didn’t intend to be sellers and we didn’t intend to be buyers necessarily. We were looking at the market and what it would dictate. We set a price on some of our players, and under the circumstances [...]
With the season he is having, Lucas Duda has squarely put many of his detractors in the background. Duda has already posted career bests in home runs, RBI, doubles and runs scored with 56 games left to play and Terry Collins hinting that we might see Duda getting some starts against lefties. This is a [...]
The ol’ clock on the wall ticks away this July 31, and it is becoming apparent that there will be no press briefings forthcoming from Citi Field. It looks as though Sandy Alderson and the Mets will not be participating in the annual mid-year grab bag exchange of players. We’ve seen Yeonis Cespedes, Jon Lester, [...]
There's an old saying, "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". It seems that while watching the 2014 version of the New York Mets, that management hasn't learned that lesson. For example, in December of 2009, the Mets outbid no one in order to overpay for a solid defensive corner [...]
Jacob deGrom was brought up at the exact same time as Rafael Montero, but was looked at as the weaker link. However, two and a half months later, deGrom is 5-5 and Montero is playing for the Las Vegas 51’s. Of course, 5-5 is not a great record for a pitcher, but that is because [...]
It’s a fun thing to wake up overseas, on a fantastic vacation, roll over, grab your cell phone and follow the last couple of innings of a Mets’ win. That’s exactly what your intrepid columnist experienced as the All-Star break ended. Germany was awesome, but Saturday morning looked a little bit better with the Padres [...]
Over the last few weeks, the Mets seem to have a different overall energy than they had in May or June resulting in a positive opening to the second half and each day the possibility grows that October baseball could return to Queens. However, there are holes to fill and holes that might grow as [...]