To say that Travis d’Arnaud has struggled in his debut with the Mets, well, that would be a massive understatement. After another o-for on Friday night, d’Arnaud is now sporting a pathetic .145/.221/.217 slash line to go with just one home run and three RBI’s (in 69 at-bats). After the Mets traded away John Buck [...]
Thursday afternoon the Mets are losing in the ninth inning, 7-2. There are two outs and nobody is on and a lefty comes to the plate. It’s not Joey Votto or Ryan Howard – it’s Denard Span. I mean no disrespect towards Span, who has accumulated 17.7 fWAR in parts of six seasons in the [...]
Now that the Mets have been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, the team is ready to conclude their seventh straight season without meaningful October baseball. They are also on their way to a fifth straight losing season. As there are many shortcomings that stand out the past few years, the bullpen’s instability has become an [...]
After being shut out for the second time in three days to the Washington Nationals (and only registering 13 hits in the three games against them thus far), the Mets are limping—all bandaged and wounded—to the finish line. The spirit has been sapped out of this club, and a team could only take so much [...]
That may be a bit of any overstatement, but Mets fans will disagree. Matt Harvey will meet with Dr. James Andrews on Monday, in order to determine if his elbow will require Tommy John surgery. If the surgery is needed, Harvey would miss the entire 2014 season. Harvey missing an entire season, when everything seemed [...]
Tuesday, reports leaked out that WFAN, the nation’s first all-sports radio station, would be carrying New York Yankees games in 2014, leaving the New York Mets to find a new flagship station for next season. While this came as a bit of a surprise to many, there is no need for anyone to be worried [...]
Justin Turner has been a fan favorite in Queens since his crazy 20 RBI in May of 2011, and it was never doubted he would make the opening day roster two years in a row. he has definitely shown that he isn’t exactly consistent when he plays every day, but he will get it done [...]
Recently a discussion was held in the comments section of one of our articles on pitcher WAR. As I’m sure you know, there are two main versions of WAR floating out there in cyberspace. There’s one at Baseball-Reference (bWAR or rWAR) and one at FanGraphs (fWAR). It can be confusing to some when two reputable [...]
Your intrepid columnist made his second appearance of the year at Citi Field on Friday, August 23. The night was rife with portents. The Detroit Tigers and the animal known as Miguel Cabrera rode into town for the first time since June, 2010. Detroit arrived red hot, having won 17 of their previous 26 contests, [...]
The old guard of baseball analysts love to cite a player’s confidence as an explanation of his recent performance. When a player is going well, it’s because he’s confident; and when he’s struggling, he lacks confidence. The fact that this still passes for legitimate baseball analysis in the year 2013 is confounding and a little [...]
On Friday, Zack Wheeler was decent against the Cleveland Indians in what is likely one of his last starts. He allowed three runs (two earned) on five hits, five walks, and struck out three over five innings of work. The baseball season is now winding down, and it looks as though Wheeler will probably not be [...]
No Met fan liked what they heard from Sandy Alderson regarding Tejada. It’s an effort to get him to go that extra mile? Does he not want to be a pro athlete? It’s disgusting to me that someone who has a clear chance to be an everyday major leaguer wouldn’t do everything they could to [...]