Predict where the top 10 remaining free agents will go
A short piece while waiting for Scott's contribution due today
Yesterday, we looked at the 14 pitchers on the club, as listed on the mets.com roster. Today, let’s turn our attention to the hitters. The offense has been slumping as of late but overall, it’s been a good year for the bats, with a grind them up, spit them out approach to opposing pitchers. Pete [...]
Losing back-to-back games at home to the lowly Nationals by identical 7-1 scores is easily the low point of the season. Now, the Mets are off to Pittsburgh to face another poor team in the Pirates. There’s no advantage to playing a bunch of sub-.500 teams if you’re not going to, you know, beat them. [...]
It was Scott's day to publish today. When you're 19-9, the last thing you want is to be rained out in back-to-back days. But that's just where the Mets find themselves after their Saturday afternoon game against the Phillies was washed out. Usually, you view rainouts as good thing for your bullpen. But the Mets' [...]
Contrary to popular belief, I’m not a heartless bastard. The memory of me fighting an uphill battle to keep the site from being nothing but a cesspool of complaining – one that was lost and caused me to temporarily suspend the site – lives on. There are Robinson Cano supporters out there and I can’t [...]
Earlier today, Chris F made a post about the starting pitchers, which essentially said that while what they've done is great, they're not going deep enough into games. It's an important point and one which it's hard to imagine anyone dissenting. Still, it got me wondering how the Mets stack up against the rest of [...]
The hardest columns for me to write are the ones that happen in the first week to 10 days of the season. It’s difficult to come up with a new angle or a different take than what everyone else is writing at this point. With that as the backdrop, here are my surprises and disappointments [...]
One thing that I've tried to emphasize is that in discussions over the CBA, it's always the owners who have a harder time sticking together than the players. According tho SNY's Andy Martino, here's the issue facing the owners' lead negotiator, Dan Halem: Halem and commissioner Rob Manfred can, in good faith, personally want the [...]
Wednesday night, the Knicks played a nationally televised game against the Heat. They got blown out, in large part because of the coach’s stubborn insistence to play starters more minutes than they deserve. But what was interesting to me about the game was the commentary from Jeff Van Gundy. If you’re a Knicks fan, you [...]
In what can hardly be considered a surprise, given the team's performance this past season along with the firing of manager Luis Rojas, almost all of the major league coaching staff was let go or reassigned. The one potential holdover on the major league staff is Jeremy Hefner. It sounds like the new manager will [...]
After going 3-7 with two walks in Saturday’s doubleheader, Jonathan Villar sits with an .800 OPS for the season. His 120 OPS+ is a career high and his solid play throughout the season has earned the trust of Luis Rojas, who not only has made Villar a regular with all of the infielders healthy, he’s [...]