The Mets have 22 games remaining in the regular season, which means we have the possibility of four more starts by Jacob deGrom. After missing most of the year recovering from the injury he suffered in Spring Training, deGrom has been tremendous. In seven starts, he’s 5-1 with a 1.66 ERA. Yet with potentially four [...]
In January of 2021, it was said here that, “One of the lousy things about the shortened 2020 MLB season was that it robbed us of a full season of prime Jacob deGrom.” Little did we know then that we wouldn’t get full years from deGrom in 2021 or 2022, either. In a fair universe, [...]
The Mets have seen five starting pitchers at least four times this year thru 121 games. With the schedule’s current heavy emphasis on divisional games, that doesn’t feel too unusual. Regardless, four of the five starters they’ve faced this often are really good pitchers. And the Nationals certainly hoped that Patrick Corbin would be better [...]
As Mets fans, we’ve watched Max Scherzer compete against us for a number of years and we saw one of his finest outings, when he threw a no-hitter with 17 strikeouts, missing out on a perfect game only due to an error, back in 2015. Also as Mets fans, we’ve seen a player have a [...]
After being sidelined for more than a year, Jacob deGrom is scheduled to return to the mound Tuesday against the Nationals. Could he use another rehab start? Yeah, probably. He missed one during the All-Star break and tried to make up for it with a simulated start. His next, and final, rehab start wasn’t all [...]
Edwin Diaz was solid for the Mets last year but not many people were doing cartwheels over a season that saw six losses, six blown saves and a 3.45 ERA. This year, he has allowed a higher BB/9 and a higher HR/9 yet has a 2.28 ERA. And as sparkling as that ERA is, it’s [...]
Pete Alonso has been on fire here recently. In his last 17 games he has a .349/.429/.762 line in 76 PA, with 8 HR and 24 RBIs in that span. It’s brought his season-long OPS+ to 160, which is tops on the club among the 15 hitters to have amassed at least 15 PA this [...]
When Spring Training started, it was a reasonable question to ask who the Mets’ best pitcher was. Jacob deGrom was in the midst of an historic season in 2021 but then got hurt and missed half the year. Most Mets fans consider deGrom as the best pitcher in the game but his injury issues had [...]
Game Score is a Bill Jame creation developed to rate how good a starting pitcher’s outing was. It’s designed so that a score of 50 is an average performance for a pitcher. The highest Game Score is 105, recorded by Kerry Wood on the night he pitched a one-hitter and struck out 20 batters. The [...]
Its always a good idea to take Spring Training stats with a grain of salt. It might be an even better idea this year, given the late start, the rushed time to begin games against other teams and the lack of diversity in opponents. With those qualifiers out of the way, the Mets’ pitching has [...]
August was bad for the Mets and September has been worse. While the record has been slightly better so far in September, it felt like at least the club was trying in August. For the most part, the club has seemed lifeless in the last 10 games. They played hard in the series against the [...]
On April 23, Jacob deGrom threw 109 pitches in a game. Little did we know at the time that was going to be significant. No, we’re not talking about how he got hurt in that outing and never pitched the same again. Rather, in the 100-plus games from that point, only one pitcher on the [...]