David Wright got on base all five times he came to the plate Saturday. He drew three walks, fired a single to center field and then hit a home run his last trip to the plate. Wright now has 11 extra-base hits in 112 PA. Last season he had 12 in 174. His 2016 SLG [...]
The perception among many is that Terry Collins prefers to play his veterans as much as possible. However, we don’t know if that’s because of a veteran fetish or if in the past five years he’s had so much uncertainty throughout the lineup that anyone who was healthy and halfway good, and yes, of course, [...]
Late in the 2015 season, after the innings kerfuffle, the Mets lifted Matt Harvey after he had pitched five scoreless innings. The bullpen imploded and the Mets lost the game against the Yankees. The next day, FanGraphs had a piece where they compared Harvey going through the lineup a third time versus a rested reliever [...]
Curtis Granderson’s first year with the Mets in 2014 didn’t exactly go as planned and most people considered him to be a bust. Those people failed to take into account that after a dreadful April, Granderson was actually pretty solid in 2014, putting up a .760 OPS over the season’s final five months (551 PA) [...]
Perhaps Brett Anderson will cure what ails him
Dave Cameron offered his take on removing Matt Harvey last night after five scoreless innings. He pointed out that Harvey was getting ready to go through the order for the third time and this year, batters facing Harvey for the third time had a .710 OPS versus the .646 OPS they have facing Hansel Robles. [...]
They say home run hitters typically get them in bunches. Those of us who remember Dave Kingman sadly will recall that he blasted five homers in the seven games before he was hurt back in 1976, ending his best chance to make a run at Roger Maris. Well, right now Curtis Granderson has hit five [...]
A favorite ploy of managers and athletes is to use the phrase, “I don’t want to use injuries as an excuse.” Of course they immediately go on to do just that. Injuries are part of the game, we all get that. But at some point, it would be nice if the Mets weren’t hanging around [...]
During the offseason, it was frequently brought up that Mets first baseman Lucas Duda has been a dreadful hitter against left-handed pitching throughout his career. This was first mentioned when speaking of a need to acquire a platoon partner for Duda, and then once Michael Cuddyer and John Mayberry Jr. signed, the idea of a [...]
At 42 years old, Bartolo Colon’s career is in its third act. Act one featured a young flamethrower with the Cleveland Indians, the Montreal Expos, the Chicago White Sox and the Anaheim-then-Los Angeles Angels. It was in this opening act that Colon was crowned the American League Cy Young Award winner in 2005 after going [...]
Before the season started if you were to make the case for using Wilmer Flores at shortstop you would say he looked sort of okay defensively, he makes good contact and he showed in September with regular playing time that he could be an asset offensively. Besides, no one really wanted to see Ruben Tejada [...]
We’ve watched Giancarlo Stanton hit a bunch of home runs against the Mets over the years. He’s belted 19 homers lifetime against Mets pitching, including three already this year. You watch the same guy constantly beat your team and you can’t help but to develop a theory. While the Mets’ announcers talk about the need [...]