It’s no secret that the Mets need pitching and fortunately for them, there are three avenues where they can import a top-of-the rotation hurler. Each comes with their own pros and cons, which makes opting for one over the other not a cut-and-dried choice. Let’s look at the top contenders: Free Agency Whether you like [...]
We'll have an article later today but for now let's talk about Pete Alonso. He's a homegrown star who has provided a ton of entertainment - and production - since making the majors in 2019. Of course, this wasn't his best year and he's a free agent free to sign with any team he wants [...]
In the Gut Reaction for yesterday's win, Gus expressed relief for the bats finally showing up and also looked forward to the upcoming series with the Mariners. He said: "I do like the pitching: Severino, Manaea, and Quintana are the Mets best three." It occurs to me that you could make a case for any [...]
It’s naïve to think that we – and that truly includes all of us, from the fans to the ball boys, to the players to management – don’t have some kind of responsibility to grow the game. And obviously some can do more than others. And that’s okay. As hardcore fans, sometimes our part is [...]
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride here for the Mets in 2024. We had the 0-5 start, followed by winning 12 of the next 15 and then dropping three straight while scoring just three runs in 27 innings. And all of this happened while playing teams over .500 in the first 21 [...]
This time last year, the expectation of most was that the Mets were going to top 95 wins. That didn’t happen and this year those expectations are considerably lower. Here’s a sampling of views of the 2024 Mets from national sites: FanGraphs: 81-81 CBS Sports: 81-81 The Athletic: 80-82 USA Today: 78-84 Gambling site FanDuel [...]
The small sample sizes and the questionable level of competition are two things that make Spring Training stats not a particularly good barometer of how a player will do once the regular season starts. People love to point out how Player X did great/poor in Grapefruit League action, only to turn around and do poor/great [...]
One day after writing about preparations for Luis Severino’s 1/$13 to be the largest move of the offseason for the Mets, they ink Sean Manaea to a 2/$28 deal with an opt out after the first season. My first thought after hearing the move was to recall he didn’t look good when the Mets first [...]
The Mets were never seriously linked to Aaron Nola so it’s no big deal that he’s re-signed with the Phillies. But the Nola signing means that we can now seriously expect the big free agents to ink contracts at any time. And we still don’t know what to expect the Mets to do this offseason. [...]
Max Scherzer posted 8 IP, 1 ER, 1 BB and 8 Ks last night versus the Astros. This is the type of start most fans envisioned from him this year. Perhaps not quite this good but in this ballpark. And not only from Scherzer but Justin Verlander, too. And fans hoped that other pitchers would [...]
It’s been my opinion that the Mets made a big mistake by having their final three bullpen spots be (essentially) a competition among relievers with options remaining. My preference would have been to have more stability among the back end of the pen with pitchers who have successfully performed in the majors. But that ship [...]
The 1966 Dodgers utilized a four-man rotation, one that featured three future Hall of Famers and the fourth, the black sheep, pitched for 18 years and was a two-time 20-game winner. That year, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Claude Osteen and Don Sutton combined to make 154 of the team’s 162 starts. You don’t see rotations [...]