The Mets had their seven-game winning streak snapped last night, dropping their record to 13-5 in their last 18 games. For the most part, the Mets have been clicking on offense in these past 18 games, even with Wednesday night’s three runs on five hits. And they’ve done that with a collective group effort, rather [...]
Much has been written and discussed about how the Mets fall apart in June putting themselves in a hole that they need to claw out of to be competitive. When looking back on the last eight years - not including the Covid-shortened 2020 season - there have certainly been some months of June that stand [...]
The idea for this article began with a question that I pondered yesterday during the broadcast of the Brooklyn Cylcones, the Mets’ High-A affiliate, and the Hudson Valley Renegades: Do relief pitchers tend to work at a faster pace than starting pitchers? While that is not the scope of this particular piece, it got me [...]
In his first 13 games as a Met, Sean Manaea is 4-3 with a 4.11 ERA. That’s a 93 ERA+ and he’s averaging just a tick over 5 IP per start, as he has 65.2 IP. It’s not what I envisioned when the Mets signed him but there’s plenty of blame to go around for [...]
Francisco Lindor has seen success this season following a slow start. This has been a typical pattern of Lindor’s time with the Mets, a slow start followed by elite production at the plate. The difference this year is that the turnaround seemed to happen when Lindor was moved into the leadoff spot in the batting [...]
One of the feel-good stories of the year for the Mets has been the performance of Luis Severino. A star with the Yankees back in 2017-18, Severino had fallen on hard times, due mostly to an assortment of injuries. He was quickly identified as an early target in free agency and he signed a one-year [...]
One thing that people fret about that doesn’t concern me in the slightest is the worry about how future free agents will react to how you handle the most-recent players you signed as free agents. You hear some variant of, “Future free agents won’t sign with a team that doesn’t bend over backwards to give [...]
Starling Marte has never been my cup of tea. Perhaps it’s because fans clamored for the Mets to get him and put Brandon Nimmo on the bench or to an outfield corner, despite Marte not being a particularly good defensive CF. Perhaps it’s because he misses a month or more out of every season and [...]
Mets’ starting pitching here in 2024 has been pretty bad. As a team, prior to Sunday morning’s start in London, the team’s SP were 11-22 with a 4.52 ERA. And that’s with Citi Field playing as an extreme pitcher’s park. That raw ERA ranked 23rd in the majors and if we had ERA+ in this [...]
Good morning, Guvnor! Yeah, corny, I know, but when in London… My Dick Van Dyke/bad Cockney accent aside, the Mets begin their whirlwind two-game set in the Motherland on a high note. Having swept the Washington Nationals before embarking on their ‘cross-pond journey, the Mets touched down at Heathrow tied for third place in the [...]
Most of us were pretty happy when the Mets signed J.D. Martinez near the end of Spring Training. Yes, it was unfortunate for Mark Vientos – an issue compounded by the Mets sending him to the minors at the start of the year while Martinez worked his way into shape – but it seemed like [...]
There have been many under-performing hitters in the Mets' lineup in 2024. One of them has been Jeff McNeil. It was only two seasons ago when McNeil finished the 2022 season with a .326 average, which not only won him the National League batting title, but it was also tops in Major League Baseball as [...]