As a GM/PoBO, part of your job is to bring guys into the organization. But another part of your job is to divvy up playing time, which means both promoting and demoting/cutting guys. It’s both easy and proper to congratulate David Stearns for signing Sean Manaea and Jose Iglesias. But we can’t just acknowledge the [...]
There is one month left in the season, and the New York Mets are 68-63, a pace for 84 wins, which is also on pace for missing the playoffs by 2 games or so. Historically, the 86-win mark is the number a team needs to hit, but the team talent from pre-season forward has always [...]
Five weeks ago, the question was asked here: Will the real David Peterson please stand up? And the six games since that post, Peterson has gone 3-1 with a 2.88 ERA in 34.1 IP. The last four starts have all been good. And while he’s still out-pitching his peripherals, there’s enough there to make one [...]
In the NCAA basketball tournament, the selection committee ranks all of the teams from 1-68. Let’s take that principle and do it for the current players on the 2024 Mets, 1-26. Typically, the backup catcher and middle reliever would occupy the bottom of the roster but that’s not necessarily the case with this team. To [...]
This edition of the Power Rankings is created by Dalton Allison, Gus Livaditis and me. Last time out, there were only two contributors to this piece, which partially explains why there’s a lot of movement in the order from last time out. The number in parentheses is the team’s ranking in our last segment. On [...]
Both prior to and at the 2024 trade deadline, the Mets picked up some players to sure up some troubled areas. They focused on a left-handed bat, a middle of the rotation starter and some established bullpen pieces. What many of us wanted was the addition of a game changer, like the trade that brought [...]
In Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS, Carlos Beltran struck out looking on a nasty curve that ended up in the middle of the strike zone. Fans have crucified Beltran ever since. And, seemingly, the Mets as an organization have decided that no key AB will ever again end with a player looking at a [...]
Just because people say something over and over and over again – it doesn’t make it true. In politics, we see people lie consistently not necessarily because you’ll believe any particular lie; but rather so you don’t believe anything. But does that carry over to sports? That doesn’t sound right to me. Instead, it seems [...]
To say that it has been a wild year for the New York Mets would be an understatement. They opened the season with an 0-5 start, floundered to 11 games under .500 by June 2, and were suddenly resurrected by a purple mascot (or was it Francisco Lindor’s closed door meeting?). After a scorching hot [...]
During Thursday’s game, Steve Gelbs mentioned an article that was posted on ESPN.com by Jesse Rogers, in which it was stated that MLB was considering a radical rule change, one which would require starting pitchers to go six innings. It prompted a lot of discussion among the broadcasters and those of us in the Game [...]
OK. I’ll be honest. I’ve been around awhile, and I’ve seen some things. I’ve been following the Mets since I was a kid – and I mean “kid.” I can remember my Dad pointing out for me to watch a particular pitcher when I was about four. That pitcher was Tom Seaver. As I got [...]
Reed Garrett has made five minor league rehab appearances and Sean Reid-Foley has made two, with both of them in Triple-A for their last game. In other words, they’re about to be activated any day. And it’s far from certain who will go to make room for them. One of the people on the bubble [...]