Wednesday catch-all thread (9/2/20)

With their moves at the trade deadline, the Mets have three transactions to make today. The easiest one will be adding Robinson Chirinos and optioning Ali Sanchez. That still leaves opening up spots for Miguel Castro and Todd Frazier. The Mets have already optioned Franklyn Kilome a couple of times after he had a multi-inning [...]

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Wednesday catch-all thread (8/19/20)

This past week, the Mets have added Matthew Allan, Francisco Alvarez and Ronny Mauricio to their 60-man roster and they are now receiving instruction at the alternate site in Brooklyn. This is a case of better late than never but why was it even late? They should have been there from Day 1. They missed [...]

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Wednesday catch-all thread (7/29/20)

You've probably read by now that David Peterson was the first Mets starting pitcher to win his debut since Steven Matz back in 2015. What you probably haven't seen is the list of pitchers who've made their first start in the interim. Here's the list: Logan Verrett Sean Gilmartin Seth Lugo Robert Gsellman Gabriel Ynoa [...]

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Wednesday catch-all thread (7/8/20)

On this date in 2015, Jacob deGrom had one of his signature games, as he hurled eight shutout innings, allowed just three baserunners and notched 10 strikeouts. But it's not the best game ever by a pitcher with Mets ties on July 8. Rather that goes to former first-round pick Billy Traber. The Mets took [...]

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Wednesday catch-all thread (7/1/20)

In a normal year, we see pitchers leave Spring Training and get babied once the regular season starts. There are two thoughts behind this - 1) There arms haven't build up the necessary stamina. 2) The weather is usually cold and not conducive to long outings. It could have been different for Tim Leary if [...]

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Wednesday catch-all thread (6/17/20)

Several different sites are running simulations of the 2020 season. MetsBlog is publishing results from MLB The Show 2020 and the Mets in that simulation are doing quite well, 10 games above .500 after 72 games. Baseball-Reference is doing one and the results are not so great in that one. This one is being done [...]

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