Last year Jon Niese made 30 starts and threw 187.2 IP. Yet word on the street is that Niese is viewed throughout the game as some big injury risk, that his shoulder is held together with spit and duct tape. The comparison that you hear most often is Mark Mulder, who was a pretty durable [...]
Chicago had Ernie Banks, San Diego had Tony Gwynn. Those guys were Hall of Famers who spent their entire team playing for one franchise and who retired without winning a World Series. Which brings us to David Wright. Is he a Hall of Famer? Will he play his entire career with the Mets? And will [...]
Next up in our projection series is Zack Wheeler. Wheeler’s first full season in the major leagues was promising as it was frustrating – with him realizing improvements in most of his underlying peripheral stats including strikeout rate, walk rate, GB%, FIP and xFIP. More importantly, Wheeler was able to toss 185.1 innings last year [...]
At this point in time, it’s safe to say that most of us are Daniel Murphy fans. That being said, the cold truth is that this time next year, we won’t be doing a prediction for him because he’ll be on another team. But we’ll blow up that bridge when we get to it. In [...]
In 2012 the Mets debuted Matt Harvey and the following year they introduced Zack Wheeler. Then last year the club brought up Jacob deGrom. Harvey and Wheeler came with all types of hype and deGrom wasn’t nearly as highly regarded. This time last year, if you asked the fan base which Mets pitcher was going [...]
This time last year we were shocked we were still having the Lucas Duda or Ike Davis debate. It may have taken two years too long to decide but the good news is that Sandy Alderson held on to the right guy, as Duda turned in the best year of his career and Davis did [...]
The Mets have had 14 different pitchers in their history to post a 5.0 bWAR or greater in a season, including Matt Harvey in 2013. None of those 14 missed an entire season after putting up such a dominating performance. The closest we have is Johan Santana, who missed the entire 2011 season after notching [...]
Welcome to the third edition of our annual projection series. The idea here is that you already have the critical, non-biased computer projections of ZiPS and Steamer and here we have a bunch of fans give subjective predictions to balance things out. Does being a fan of a team give you insight that the projections [...]
We’re winding down our projection review series. Today, we’ll look to the future – a future we all thought was closer than it turned out to be. Met fans were pretty lucky in 2012 and 2013 – all evidence to the contrary. In 2012, we got to witness Matt Harvey’s bursting arrival. From his very [...]
2014 Projection Review: Jenrry Mejia
Our projection review series continues with one of the larger enigmas of the 2014 Mets. Dillon Gee was coming off a surprisingly productive 2013. He logged a career-best 199 innings pitched, with above average rate stats, his 1.218 WHIP in particular. All signs pointed to a continuation of that trend in 2014, so much so [...]
One of the pleasant surprises this year was the emergence of the Mets young starting pitching. While Jacob deGrom got most of the headlines, Zack Wheeler took several steps forward and looked fantastic, especially after the last dozen or so starts. We saw him taking steps forward, but not necessarily as many as he ended [...]
