At Mets360 we hold these truths to be self-evident: • That proper statistical evaluation is essential to understanding how baseball games are won and lost • That the stats that are available today are superior to the ones available in the 1950s for this purpose • That there is no one perfect stat to evaluate [...]
I think if you asked Mets fans this question - If you had a spare $20 million would you buy one of the shares in the team that the Wilpons are offering? – most would reply no. My guess is that they would not want to do anything that would help keep the current owners [...]
It was great to see video of Johan Santana throwing batting practice. Of course it’s still a long way from BP to Opening Day but each day he’s on the field makes it more likely that he’ll break camp with the Mets rather than being placed on the DL. And if Santana is on the [...]
Loyal reader Metsense recently posted this thought: I feel sorry for Sandy Alderson. I believe, when he initially signed on, he thought of the Mets as Moneyball only with money. Imagine if he took the $142M payroll, lopped off the Perez and Castillo contracts and went into this winter with a $128M to spend. I [...]
Major League Baseball is a multi-billion dollar business. Today's athletes are well-paid and well taken care of, even when their playing days are over. But ballplayers from the mid to late 20th Century do not enjoy the same benefits. Doug Gladstone champions their cause and he agreed to take some time out to talk about [...]
As we draw closer to the opening of training camp we will, as Mets' fans, collectively dust off our previous frustrations and displeasures with the team's past failures (not to mention current financial woes) and hope springs eternal. It’s a clean slate. You’re once again starting from scratch with all things being equal. It’s an [...]
The confetti from the Giants’ Super Bowl victory is scarcely swept up and we’re gearing up for spring training. The annual winter doldrums between the end of football and the beginning of baseball seem shorter than ever, mercifully and will shrink further still if the NFL goes through with its plan to add two more [...]
Wednesday afternoon minor league baseball expert John Sickels dropped by to talk about Mets prospects. John is the senior editor at MinorLeagueBall.com and is the author of The Baseball Prospect Book, an annual look at around 1,200 prospects in the minors. John and I talked about Harvey vs. Wheeler Havens vs. Valdespin Puello vs. Flores [...]
Dear Mr. Fred Wilpon: It’s time – you need to sell the team. I know the truth often smarts, but that doesn’t make it any less accurate. I understand New York Mets baseball has been a part of your life since you purchased that one-percent share back in 1980, half of the shares in 1986 [...]
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with most of the moves that Sandy Alderson and Co. have made this off-season. Not spending a ton of money (which the team didn't even have) on a player like Jose Reyes was a hard decision, but it was the right move. Personally, I loved the Angel Pagan for [...]
We are in the final days before Spring Training and I’ve asked each of our writers to list some stories that they would recommend to our readers who took the winter off to watch football. If you did that, or just missed these stories the first time around, please take a moment to check out [...]
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