A few weeks ago, I claimed that Ruben Tejada's time with New York was done. His rather putrid offensive and defensive numbers had been improving only slightly by that article's publishing and there was no realistic indication that those improvements were going to stay. He had rebounded to have a few nice games, but for [...]
There's been a perception - correct or not - over the past four seasons that poor play was something would be tolerated by the Mets in sake of building for the future. A big piece of that future in theory is Travis d'Arnaud, one of the prospects netted by the Mets in return for R.A. [...]
The Mets selected Oregon State outfielder Michael Conforto with the tenth pick in the 2014 first-year player draft. It's the first draft during the Sandy Alderson era in which the team has selected a college player with their first overall pick. In the first draft for this front office in 2011, the team selected outfielder [...]
Sunday’s pitching matchup provides an interesting contrast of former first-round picks of the Giants in Tim Lincecum and Zack Wheeler. The two hurlers, drafted three years apart, couldn’t be more different from one another. One is struggling to find his former greatness and the other is still searching to see if he has greatness within [...]
After Friday night's game in San Francisco, Mets' catcher Travis d'Arnaud is now sporting a pathetic .180/.271/.273 slash line. Yuck! Ever since being the centerpiece in the trade for R.A. Dickey with the Toronto Blue Jays, we have been led to believe that d'Arnaud was one of the better, if not the best, catching prospects [...]
On November 15th, 2012, The New York Mets signed Carlos Torres to a minor league free agent contract with an invite to spring training. The signing was met with no response. Fans didn’t comment when it was brought up on blogs and the internet itself was extremely quiet on the signing. Torres was simply described [...]
Don't look now but it appears that Zack Wheeler is starting to nicely round into shape. After a rocky start with some fans and media losing confidence in him, Wheeler has quieted some of his critics of late. Although he only has two wins (2-5) on the year, Wheeler is putting up quality outing after [...]
It is not anything new. The Mets bullpen has always been a weakness of the team. When Bobby Parnell was shut down for the entire 2014 season, it felt like more of the same. Sandy Alderson had never been one to put a lot of stock, or money for that matter, into a bullpen. So [...]
More than one third of the Major League Baseball Season has been played and the one thing the Mets have shown is how much the they need to improve in order to contend. Right now, the Mets are 28-30, which is not where they want to be. It seems that with the current roster, the [...]
After Sunday’s thrilling 11-inning 4-3 win in Philadelphia, veteran Mets beat writer Adam Rubin posed the question “Are the Mets for real after all?” Those familiar with Rubin’s style – straightforward, with a slight lean toward the negative – were taken a bit by surprise, though recent relative success made the inquiry somewhat valid. At [...]
By all offensive measures, Travis d’Arnaud is failing to get it done. Never mind that he was a highly touted prospect for his hitting ability, let’s just look at him through the eyes of league averages as presented by Baseball-Reference. d’ArnaudLeague Average BA: .193lgBA: .248 OBP: .281lgOBP: .313 SLG: .298lgSLG: .392 OPS: .579lgOPS: .704 Of [...]