Dan Szymborski self-describes as “Senior Writer for FanGraphs, ESPN contributor, data provider for teams/agents, ZiPSetician, gamer, exasperating, possibly the worst. BBWAA, Digital Dandy.” Dan and I have been friends for about 27 years, discussing and arguing baseball on USENET discussion boards. He developed ZiPS, the premier projection system for 20+ years, and I developed RED, [...]
There’s a long history between Mets360 and today’s interview subject, Mack Ade. Many of you know Mack from his terrific site – Mack’s Mets. But did you know that there was talk of Mack being involved with Mets360 right from the start? Co-founder John Strubel tried to get Mack to join us and there were [...]
It was late in the 2010 calendar year that Charlie Hangley started writing for Mets360. Since then, his byline has appeared at the site over 600 times. I first came across Charlie at the old Baseball Primer, now known as Baseball Think Factory. It's still in existence today but is only a shell of what [...]
One of the things that brings me joy with the site is when someone graduates from being a reader to being a writer. It's happened a few times over the years and the latest is with today's interview subject, Steven Shrager. It's tough to go from writing 50-word comments to 750-word essays. And it's even [...]
Last year we started a new series here at Mets360, one where we conducted interviews with both writers and readers of the site. It’s something we’re going to continue this year and we kick it off with David Hong. We brought on four new writers last year and David H. was one of them. He’s [...]
Next up in our interview series is friend of the site, John from Albany. I first became aware of John around four years or so ago, when he was writing for Mack's Mets. John brought something completely different to Mack's site. Sure, he wrote about prospects like everyone else there does. But he also contributed [...]
If we had a poll at the site for favorite commenter, my belief is that at least 95% of the people would pick Metsense. Like many, he’s passionate. But he brings so much more to the table than that. Two things that stand out are his ability to change his mind when presented with convincing [...]
You've seen a bunch of interviews posted here with writers from our site. Well, John from Albany, who runs the Mets News & Links site, conducted one with me recently. Here's a snippet: If you could have dinner with 4 current or ex-Met managers, players or executives, who would they be? Love this question! It’s [...]
No one who writes for the site makes my job easier than John Fox. I am especially grateful for his reliably early submissions, to say nothing of his article topics, which always seem carefully chosen. Two years ago, when I was contemplating the future direction of Mets360, one plan was to have just John as [...]
Next up in our interview series is Joe Vasile. Many of you know Joe from the analytically-driven stories he’s written here over the years but what you may not know is that Joe is a broadcaster in the minor leagues with the goal to make it to the majors. We’re all rooting for him to [...]
One of the items asked for by readers from our September customer survey was to have things in addition to our regular articles. One of the suggestions was to have interviews with non-team personnel. Below is an email correspondence with Matt Netter. Matt gave his last reply a little while ago, which explains why his [...]
One of the items asked for by readers from our September customer survey was to have things in addition to our regular articles. One of the suggestions was to have interviews with non-team personnel. Below is an email correspondence with David Groveman, who has written for the site and appeared on podcasts dating back to [...]