From 2014-2017, Jose Quintana posted four straight 4.0 or better fWAR seasons. Then, from 2018-2021, he recorded a combined total of 5.6 fWAR, with 3.5 of that coming in 2019 alone. Quintana then had a big bounceback season in 2022 (something the Mets are hoping Luis Severino can duplicate) with a 4.0 fWAR split between [...]
Most people see Pete Alonso hit 46 HR and drove in 118 runs and figure it was another great season. But his wRC+ - the most-advanced tool we have to rate offensive productivity – dropped 20 points, putting 2023 just a single point ahead of his 2020 season. And after posting 3.8 fWAR in 2022, [...]
This begins the 12th year we’ve done projections here at Mets360. These are important to me because people who say they “just knew” Player X was going to be good or bad after the fact drive me up the wall. You want to impress me? Share that knowledge before the season starts. Even with all [...]
Each year it’s a rush to get all of the projections in. And inevitably, after the year is over, you wonder why more weren’t done. It’s a vicious cycle. Anyway, the season starts for the Mets on Thursday and there’s still at least four players who deserve a projection. So, this piece will be a [...]
It’s hard to know what the upside for the 2023 Mets is without knowing what to expect from Kodai Senga. The good news is that on a team with Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, there’s no pressure on him to be an ace. The bad new is that Senga is essentially replacing Chris Bassitt, who [...]
Starling Marte showed no dropoff in the batter’s box in his first season with the Mets in 2022. After posting a 132 OPS+ in 2021, he recorded a 132 for the Mets last season. But his stolen base numbers fell off considerably, which we learned was in part playing thru groin injuries. And he went [...]
With the age of the expected starting five for the Mets, there was little doubt that David Peterson was going to get a few starts in 2023. We hoped that before the regular season started that he wasn’t going to be pressed into duty right away. Alas, the injury to newly signed Jose Quintana, which [...]
While waiting to hear how bad the Edwin Diaz news is, what better time to look at the most positive player on the Mets in Brandon Nimmo. The seemingly annual question of how many games Nimmo can play was answered last year with a career-high 151 games. He missed some time while on the Covid [...]
Mark Canha and Eduardo Escobar are linked together in my mind. The two veterans both came to the Mets prior to the 2022 season on two-year contracts, put up similar seasons, with a 2.8 fWAR for Canha and a 2.3 mark for Escobar and both had seasons propped up by a six-week hot streak. Canha’s [...]
Carlos Carrasco was having a really nice year until it rained in Atlanta during his start on August 15. There was a 55-minute rain delay, after which Carrasco came back out to pitch the second inning. That’s all he pitched, as he injured his oblique, which necessitated a trip to the IL. Coming into the [...]
In his second season with the Mets, Francisco Lindor played in all but one game and saw his OPS+ jump 25 points from his first year in Queens. The result was a ninth-place finish in the MVP voting. Outside of the career-high IFFB%, it’s hard to imagine a much-better season from Lindor. So, what does [...]
It was an eventful year for Eduardo Escobar, one that continued into the offseason with the pursuit of Carlos Correa to take his job. In his first year with the Mets in 2022, the free-swinging Escobar drew 15 BB in the month of April. After that, he returned to his usual self, finishing with a [...]