Will Mets really blow chance to move Lucas Duda to 1B?

The following story is respectfully offered for your consideration. It concerns two people—Ike Davis and Lucas Duda —but they are from another galaxy and another time. They live quite simply in the Twilight Zone. Okay so they’re not from another galaxy and another time. But after hearing Sandy Alderson’s comments on WFAN Monday, it’s quite [...]

Mets make the right move in sending down Carson & Davis

By now you have most likely heard the news that the Mets plan to demote Mike Baxter, Robert Carson and Ike Davis, with an official announcement coming Monday morning. If it took being embarrassed by the last-place Marlins for these very necessary steps to happen then that seems like a small price to pay to [...]

Robert Carson’s role in question after riding pine in 20-inning game

Usually Terry Collins never misses a chance to use a lefty reliever. If you recall, he spent much of the previous two seasons bellyaching about not having a second lefty to utilize out of the bullpen. So it was a bit surprising in a game that lasted 20 innings and one in which the Mets [...]

Juan Lagares: What do the Mets have in him?

For the last two days the Mets have been rained out. Two consecutive days without baseball could be considered a long time. For Juan Lagares, it may seem like an eternity. You see, Lagares rarely plays (he’s appeared in only 26 games this year while only making 56 plate appearances since his debut on April [...]

2013 Mets Draft: Ivan Wilson, Casey Meisner, Lee Mazzilli & Jared King

Round 3: Winners: Boston got Denney and if they can sign him he’s the clear pick of the round. Pick #76: Ivan Wilson, RF, [Ruston HS] Scouting: At 6’3” and 220 Lbs Wilson is a big player who projects to have a big bat.  The power is there and he seems to have enough of [...]

Omar Quintanilla gets lucky, Jeremy Hefner, Cesar Puello may not

In his second stint with the Mets, Omar Quintanilla is picking up right where he left off, hitting the ball sharply and enjoying his best streak of ball in the majors. In six games with the Mets in 2013, Quintanilla has a 1.273 OPS and has been a huge upgrade over what the club had [...]

2013 Mets Draft recap: Dominic Smith & Andrew Church

I wrote last Saturday about the draft and selected a pretty auspicious group of players to be joining the Metropolitan ranks.  With my analysis the Mets would have come away with three college bats and a talented high school pitcher.  You’ll recall that I thought the Mets could come away with: Hunter Renfroe, OF [Mississippi [...]

Back To The Future With Matt Harvey, Jonathon Niese And The Mets’ Offense

News flash: the Mets are eleven games under the .500 mark. A lot has been written and a number of fingers have been pointed as to why. We can look at the failures of Ike Davis, Ruben Tejada and any one of about five or six minor-league outfielders to develop. We can blame a porous [...]

Dillon Gee and Jeremy Hefner in race to avoid being demoted

With Zack Wheeler’s eventual call up to Queens to come in the next week or two, Dillon Gee and Jeremy Hefner are doing their best to not lose their spot in the rotation. Simply put, they are not going down without a fight. While the club and Terry Collins are trying to downplay the addition [...]