Chris Young had a very solid day on the mound. He threw a total of 6 innings with 87 total pitches and 50 strikes. The control wasn’t so much wavering as the 3 walks might indicate, you have to realize that Chris Young lives on the corners and is going to miss them on occasion. [...]
If you find yourself clamoring for Frank Francisco and Jon Rauch these days, that may be a tell-tale sign that your faith in the Mets’ bullpen is waning. After competing for most of the series vs. Philadelphia, it was once again the bullpen that let down the Mets this week as they let two close, [...]
2012 TOPPS HERITAGE MINT DUKE SNIDER This one's a bit of a mindbleep. It's a 2012 Topps Heritage Mint card that pays tribute to Duke Snider's 400th career home run, and it contains an uncirculated 1963 quarter embedded in a small round window to the right of a photo of the kneeling Silver Fox. Duke [...]
Wilmer Flores was born August 6, 1991 in Valencia, Venezuela. Flores signed as an international free agent out of Venezuela with the Mets in 2007. Flores was rated in the Top 100 prospects by Baseball America prior to the 2009 (#47), 2010 (#88) and 2011 (#59) seasons. He participated in the 2009 All-Star Futures Game. [...]
Two entities celebrating fiftieth anniversaries this year grab my interest. The first, obviously, is the New York Mets. The second is the Beach Boys. We’ve heard a lot about both lately and reflections on their respective pasts, both glories and warts. There have been retrospectives on the radio, revisits on the field. Face it: for [...]
A typical National League roster in 2012 has 12 pitchers and 13 hitters. The breakdown of the hitters usually is: 2 catchers, 6 infielders and 5 outfielders. Because of the ability of Justin Turner to play all four infield positions, the Mets have gone with 5 infielders and 6 outfielders recently. But Turner’s injury yesterday [...]
About three weeks ago, I asked how you felt about Frank Francisco. The comments ranged from “CRINGE” to “nervous” to “HORRIBLE.” Since then he’s pitched in eight games, has an 0-2 record with 5 Saves and an 8.10 ERA. Yet I actually feel better about Francisco now then I did when I wrote the earlier [...]
Right now David Wright in mired in a deep slump. In his last two games he is 0-6, and in his last five games he is 4-19. He’s seen his batting average drop from a respectable .415 to an abysmal .390. Wright has been sensational this year, and he is showing the baseball world really [...]
Even after winning Saturday’s game by nine runs, the Mets have a -21 run differential for the season, meaning they have been outscored by 21 despite winning more games than they have lost. This fact has been beaten home, both at this site and others, because it is so hard to be a playoff team [...]
As the Mets sit at 26-21, they are admirably exceeding expectations and staying afloat the standings in the cutthroat NL East. However, if they want to keep it up, they are going to need to ramp up their offense and the return of Josh Thole (concussion), Ruben Tejada (quad strain) and Jason Bay (fractured ribs) [...]
Jenrry Mejia: Was just sent up to AAA. This tells me that the Mets are serious about the potential of Mejia going into the bullpen in 2012. I don’t like this plan and am in the camp of keeping Mejia in the minors and starting throughout 2012. Now… this is a little bit conspiracy theory [...]
Edmund Burke said, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Some variation of these two quotes is repeated today in nearly every field of study. In the case of the Mets, in 2012 it is used to combat [...]