Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. Over at SNY is the following headline: "Terry Collins says former Mets pitcher Matt Harvey talked about suicide." The article is linked - you can read it yourself. Sounds like a throwaway line, more than anything delivered with real intent. Regardless of [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. When I was a kid, I didn't much care for Old Timers Day. It was sad to watch on TV these once-great athletes waddling around on the field. Plus, that meant the real game started later. Now, I have mixed feelings about [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. At The Athletic, Tim Britton wrote about an extension for Brandon Nimmo. If only someone had argued for that last year. Anyway, while reading Britton's piece, a thought jumped to mind. If Nimmo is able to put his injury issues behind him [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. Since the last open thread, the Mets have finalized their coaching staff. At the GM meetings, Sandy Alderson opined that it was going to be tougher to fill out a coaching staff than it was to get either a manager or GM. [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. The Athletic just released the answers to their Mets survey, with nearly 3,000 responses. Here are a few of the results: Which of the following Mets prospects are you most OK with trading? Khalil Lee - 35.5% Ronny Mauricio - 31.7% [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. So, The Athletic ran a survey asking readers what they thought on a bunch of different topics on the Mets. Among their questions was asking the reader to grade the free agent signings, with the following choices: A B+/A- B C+/B- C [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. It appears the Mets are replacing Dominic Smith and Michael Conforto with Mark Canha and Starling Marte. Here's that quartet's production in fWAR for 2021: Smith - (-0.5) Conforto - 0.8 Canha - 2.6 Marte - 5.5 Few expect Marte to repeat [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. In 2021, Mets starting pitchers were 32-57. Yeah, we all know wins aren't the best way to judge starters. But that's just terrible. Leaving out Jacob deGrom and Marcus Stroman, here's how Mets starters with at least four starts fared last year [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. This was a comment left on a story in The Athletic entitled, "Mets' new manager Buck Showalter: 'There's no magic sprinkle dust. It's about winning baseball games'": Magic sprinkle dust sounds like droppings from the mythical Ratcoon. Is that still around? [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. John wrote an interesting piece yesterday, asking if the Mets would have been better not making any trades since Brodie Van Wagenen took over. Metsense had a strong comment, comparing all of the players head to head and thinking that the current [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. The Mets have begun interviews for their managerial opening and reports have these interviews lasting up to five hours. How would you like to be the guy who was being grilled for five hours and who doesn't even get the job? Have [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. : The following list of players the Mets tendered contracts to comes from SNY: Meanwhile, the following players were tendered contracts for 2022: 1B Pete Alonso, INF Travis Blankenhorn, RHP José Butto, RHP Miguel Castro, INF/OF J.D. Davis, RHP Edwin Díaz, [...]