For many, the big story from Saturday was the return of Juan Lagares to the starting lineup and his key role in delivering the Mets’ first win over the Nationals this season. Good for Lagares, especially with his homer. If he could add power to his game, that would be a wonderful thing. But for [...]
“People moving out, People moving in. Ball of confusion; That’s what the world is today...” — The Temptations From the top down, the entire Mets’ organization is in a state of flux. There’s all sorts of things happening. There was a New York Times story published which indicated that Saul Katz was considering selling his [...]
There is a #FreeLagares hashtag trending on Twitter and Facebook as I speak. With each mention of this hashtag, the intensity for the Mets to free outfielder Juan Lagares from the bench is becoming increasingly noticeable and palpable. Yet another day goes by and Lagares is still sitting, as he was on the bench again [...]
During this past offseason, Robinson Cano was the big free agent name on the market. Cano, for several years now, has been known as Major League Baseball’s premier second baseman and has played at nearly MVP levels for the majority of that time period, which resulted in the Seattle Mariners signing Cano to a 10-year, [...]
The Mets host the Yankees tonight. Your intrepid columnist is making his third pilgrimage of the year and he can only wonder what will greet him when he gets there. The first three games of this series have been more on the bizzarro side than anyone could have envisioned. First of all, the Mets – [...]
Late Wednesday night the Mets cut ties with Kyle Farnsworth, saving the remainder of his contract and earning the ire of the veteran reliever. The Mets are off the hook for the rest of his $1 million contract. What they did was perfectly within their rights but it seems like nothing more than a financially-motivated, [...]
Zack Wheeler isn’t having the best start to his season and some fans are panicking about his development at the big league level. The biggest problem has been Wheeler’s command. And that problem was on display last night against the Yankees. He walked six batters over the course of his start and it took him [...]
The Mets have been in a slip as of late, but there is still hope for them to pick themselves up and compete within the division. Entering the Subway Series, the Mets were 17-19 and they were scoring very few runs. But they were able to beat the Yankees in an amazing game one, and [...]
Recently, the Mets have been on the decline, a combination of shaky offense with less than stellar pitching. Because of this decline, the Mets have made a series of changes to the roster. This includes the demotion of Josh Satin, banishment to the bullpen for Jenrry Mejia, the arrival of Wilmer Flores, and Jacob deGrom’s [...]
In Monday night’s game against the Yankees, Jenrry Mejia came in and got four big outs. It was originally thought that since Mejia had pitched only three days prior, that he would only be expected to come in and get Alfonso Soriano out, which he did in splendid fashion on only three pitches. However, Mejia [...]
After a dramatic 11th inning victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, Terry Collins told reporters that he was close to making Jeurys Familia the closer. Familia would already be the fourth different option used by the Mets after Bobby Parnell, Jose Valverde and Kyle Farnsworth. “Three days in a row, pounding the strike zone, [...]
Last month there was an interesting story on MLB.com about the Mets' hitting philosophy and the new internal hitting metric called Bases Per Out (BPO) that it spawned. There's nothing particularly enlightening about the hitting philosophy. Essentially, it's a system of selective aggressiveness in which the hitter swings at good strikes and lays off of [...]