With MLB's Summer classic less than a week away, there is no better time than the present to evaluate the state of the 2014 New York Mets and their potential second half. While Spring hopes are eternal, most teams see their playoff chances whither and die in the late Summer heat. Year after year, the [...]
Last night against the Atlanta Braves, Jacob deGrom put together arguably his best major league start to date. With that and the return of Dillon Gee to the rotation, deGrom’s future with the Mets is a little bit cloudy. Going into next season, the Mets seem to have more major league ready starting pitching than [...]
With the Chicago Cubs and Oakland Athletics completing a blockbuster trade this past Friday, the Major League Baseball trading season is underway. So far, some key moves have been Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel being sent from the Cubs to the A’s, and Brandon McCarthy being traded to the New York Yankees for Vidal Nuno. [...]
Hope is slowly being restored into the ball club and the Mets’ fans as the last three of the four games were hard won. Yet the possibility of a 2011 Rays happening to the Mets is never far from reality, so the front office will have to make some tough decisions soon. Perhaps trade away [...]
Things we never thought we’d say in April: “This bullpen ain’t too bad.” When the season dawned, the Mets and their fans weren’t sure exactly how the late innings of any given game would be handled. Oh, sure, Bobby Parnell -- with his electric fastball -- was going to be the closer, of course. The [...]
For those of you who don't care about theater, there is a hit show both on Broadway and on tour entitled "Buyer & Cellar." In this play a young actor named Alex More gets propositioned into running a shopping center of old Hollywood and Broadway collectibles. The only hitch is that this shopping center is [...]
Recently on the radio and in the local papers, the Chicago Cubs Starlin Castro has come up as a player the Mets should pursue. This is a direct result of the Oakland A’s acquiring pitchers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel from the Cubs for a package of prospects headlined by short stop Addison Russell. The [...]
Now in his fourth full-season spent on a major league roster, and the first in which he's been afforded adequate playing time, Lucas Duda is blossoming right before our very eyes. Is he a star? No. But is he developing into a good first baseman? Yes. After getting off to a slow start, he hit [...]
If asked to identify the strength of the team coming into the season, most people would have said the starting rotation. But here in early July, the strength of the squad for nearly the last month has been the bullpen. The relievers got off to a poor start but the Mets shuffled through some of [...]
We are past the 81 game mark, and it is time to give out awards to the players who have been playing the best throughout the season. Most Valuable Player Candidate 1: Juan Lagares entered this season being known for his excellent defensive skills, but the question was whether he could produce enough offensively. This [...]
Friday night Dillon Gee made a rehab start with the Brooklyn Cyclones and he allowed three hits and one walk in six innings and also fanned 10 batters. If he’s not ready for a return to the majors, he’ll need just one more tune-up in the minors. So the question becomes: Who do the Mets [...]
The Mets are now ten games out of first place as they begin an 11 game home stand that leads into the All-Star break. The last road trip through Pittsburgh and Atlanta was a “gut-punch” to a team that was striving so hard to get over a trend of losing close games. The Mets lost [...]