On most baseball teams, the fifth spot in a starting pitching rotation is one of the black holes on a roster from which very few fans ever find any excitement. Take the 2013 Mets for example. While Dillon Gee, Jonathon Niese, Jeremy Hefner, Zack Wheeler and Matt Harvey manned the first four spots in the [...]
With spring training just around the corner, the roster for the 2014 Mets looks to be rounding into shape. Although all the roles on the team have not yet been defined, the team still looks to be lacking in veteran bullpen arms. The Mets as much as any other team should know the value of [...]
As the days dwindle down toward Spring Training and Opening Day, it becomes more and more likely that the players the Mets currently have on the payroll are the players we will see on Opening Day. The Mets and Sandy Alderson have made a couple of interesting moves that will dictate the lineup when it [...]
All the leaves are gone and the sky is grey. A look out the window yields brittle grass, bare branches, leaden skies and whipping winds. It’s January and even though winter is officially only four-and-a-half weeks old at this writing, it already feels like forever. On these here interwebs, there are countdowns to spring training [...]
Today we kick off our second year of projections. We started this last year hoping to provide a counter to the systematic projection systems like ZiPS and Steamer. None of us have a forecasting system. What follows is just our gut feeling on how the player will do in 2014. The expectation is that with [...]
In 2000, the Mets lost out on what, at the time, looked like a future Hall of Fame player in Alex Rodriguez. Rodriguez was coming off a year in which he hit .316 with 41 home runs and 132 RBI’s. The deal the Mets offered Rodriguez would have been around ten years. From 2001-2011, Rodriguez [...]
It seems that the Mets are done spending big money this offseason, although the Stephen Drew saga is not over. But, that doesn’t rule out some minor league or low money deals to help bolster the rotation and bullpen. One of the names that the Mets should target is Andrew Bailey, who was non-tender by [...]
John Sickels of Minor League Ball released yesterday his Top 20 Mets Prospects list, found here. There are few surprises up top, though he seems to be more bullish on Brandon Nimmo and Gavin Cecchini than some. Perhaps the most controversial ranking on the list is Steven Matz at number 14, who Sickels ranks as [...]
The past two seasons have been dubbed “The Year(s) Of The Pitcher.” This is a retread of the label first trotted out in 1968, in response to record-shattering mound performances by the likes of Bob Gibson, Denny McLain and fine years by several other hurlers, including our own Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman. At that [...]
To explain exactly what it means to be a Mets fan over the past decade or so, you need look no further than Matt Harvey in 2013. Harvey was a name known to die-hard Mets fans when he came up in late 2012, where he posted a 2.73 ERA with 70 strikeouts and 26 walks [...]
We’re Met fans. We don’t really care if Alex Rodriguez plays in 2014 or beyond. Most of us would still love it if the Yankees to be forced to pay him, but we don’t care if he’s wearing pinstripes in the majors ever again. 60 Minutes did a report that troubled me, a Met fan, [...]
Now that all the anger and frustration stemming from last Tuesday’s Baseball Hall of Fame vote has died down somewhat, it’s time for one last article until we pack the topic of Cooperstown away for the next six months. The purpose of this article, as the title suggests, is not for me to express my [...]
