After spending just a little more than the minimum time on the disabled list, Mets’ outfielder Juan Lagares is set to return to the field on Thursday night and play against the Colorado Rockies. At the time of Lagares’ injury, he was posting an impressive .313/.345/.470 slash line to go with five extra base hits [...]
Last night, Jon Niese cruised through seven innings in a cold, windy and rainy game in Philadelphia. Niese picked up his second victory and dropped his ERA to 2.20. In his career against the Phillies, Niese is 7-6 in 16 starts with a 3.00 ERA. For a man who has been with the Mets for [...]
The first month of the MLB regular season has come to an end, and the Mets have finished with an above .500 record. Although it got off to a rough start, the Mets began to emerge as threat despite their struggles offensively. So what is to come in the month of May for the Mets? [...]
The Mets enter tonight’s play sporting a 14-11 record. Being over .500 “this late” wasn’t something most people were betting on, for sure, but it’s also a matter of whom they’ve beaten as much the raw number of Ws. If someone had told you in late March that the Mets would be guaranteed a winning [...]
The Mets' bullpen seems to be in a constant state of flux so far in 2014. The heralded closer Bobby Parnell was supposed to be fully recovered from neck surgery, only to blow out his elbow in his first appearance of the year and be sidelined with Tommy John surgery. Jose Valverde stepped up, and [...]
By now, most of Mets’ Nation is aware that an incident took place last weekend involving the players and the media. The players rallied behind Bartolo Colon and declined to speak to the media until after Mike Puma of the New York Post departed. The issue was that Puma had written, "if Colon’s neck were [...]
It has been a rough start to the season for two-thirds of Sandy Alderson’s “big” free agency acquisitions. While Bartolo Colon has gotten off to a decent start, Chris Young and Curtis Granderson have stumbled somewhat in the early going. Young’s struggles have been much less alarming than Grandersons, mostly because of the much smaller [...]
Dillon Gee was masterful Sunday afternoon against the Marlins. He became the first Mets pitcher in 2014 to complete eight innings as he hurled eight scoreless frames in the team’s 4-0 win. With the outing, Gee lowered his ERA for the year to 2.88 and in six games this season, he’s hurled four quality starts. [...]
The 2014 Mets sit at 13-11; a welcome surprise to start a season that's probably more important than anyone associated with the team is willing to admit. Still, the driving factor behind the team's early success has been solid pitching. The hitting, on the other hand, has left much to be desired. The Mets' offense [...]
“Lord, that I’m standin’ at the crossroad, babe I believe I’m sinkin’ down” —Robert Johnson Well actually, it would be more correct to say, Curtis Granderson is sinkin’ up. The reason for that statement is that Terry Collins has moved him up to the number two position in the batting order. So, he is out [...]
A few weeks back I penned a column lauding the decent start Ruben Tejada was off to. And as if it was a foreshadowing of things to come, Tejada has now gone into a miserable slump and is once again losing time to backup Omar Quintanilla. Tejada is now sporting a paltry .200/.324/.217 slash line [...]
The starting rotation has been the fuel behind the Mets early season success. In the last 10 games, the starter ERA is 1.84, and the bullpen has backed them up enabling the team to win seven of them. More importantly, the Mets have been in each game, for the most part, by the time the [...]