Sandy Alderson was brought in to rebuild a franchise heading down the path of becoming a train wreck. During his reign here in Flushing, he has started to implement a new mindset and a new philosophy on how to play baseball. That started with bringing in Terry Collins, bringing in bullpen pieces on a year-to-year [...]
Back in January of this year, the Mets360 crew set out to predict the 2013 statistical performance of key personnel. In this entry in our ongoing recap, we take a look back at what we expected of Jonathon Niese and what he delivered. We were by and large a sanguine bunch when it came to [...]
Ah, the one man that can actually turn a good day into a bad one with a homerun. At one point it seemed the perfect combination of Lenny Harris, Matt Stairs and Ed Kranepool had been formed on New York’s bench, but all good things come to an end and a foul ball to the [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Perhaps the best thing that happened for the Mets in 2013 was the arrival of Juan Lagares. While it took an injury to Matt den Dekker, an unbelievably quick hook with Collin Cowgill and fall flat on their face efforts from Rick Ankiel, Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Jordany Valdespin – the Mets ultimately turned to Lagares [...]
We’ve been taking a look back at our writers’ preseason projections for different players who we thought would play a key role in the 2013 Mets season. Today’s player is Mike Baxter. Here’s what we thought Baxter would do this season: PA: 313 AVG: .265 OBP: .350 SLG: .410 HR: 6 RBI: 35 HBP: 6 [...]
The next player in the Mets360 preseason projection review is Kirk Nieuwenhuis. The original piece with the projections can be found here. As a group, the Mets360 staff projected the following line for Nieuwenhuis: PA – 382 AVG – .250 OBP – .320 SLG – .383 HR – 10 RBI – 42 OPS vs. LHP [...]
Everyone is eager for big offseason moves from the Mets but before those are done the club needs to address the 40-man roster issue. It’s not just the Mets – every club has to do roster juggling at this time of the season. It starts at the conclusion of the World Series and goes on [...]
We are looking back at preseason projections we made and today we examine Opening Day left fielder Lucas Duda. Take a few moments to see the original piece we did. Our group projection was for the following line: PA – 505 AVG – .255 OBP – .340 SLG – .425 HR – 20 RBI – [...]
Now that the postseason has begun, it’s only fitting for Mets fans to revel at players who might consider changing teams next year. This season became the seventh straight year the Mets have failed to participate for October baseball, and now is the time to consider what the future holds as we watch the four [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
This time on Memorabilia Review we will take a peek at the fifth, and final, program put out by the Mets for the 2013 season. This issue is Volume 52, Issue #5, cover price is $5. It is the fourth of 5 different issues that the Mets produced in 2013 (April 1st, May 20th, July [...]