Opening day is 10 days away. The anticipation for that first pitch is rising and we’re all ready to settle in for seven more months of baseball. With that in mind, it’s time to see where this team stands in general as we countdown to opening day. So, here’s what I see as being the [...]
Justin Turner truly defined what a utility player actually could be last year. He played 23 games at third base, 18 games at shortstop, 15 games at first base, and 12 games at second base. He didn’t have as many at bats as in previous years, 200 AB, but he still managed to hit .280 [...]
Fact: Matt Harvey is rehabbing his Tommy John repaired right elbow. Fact: the rehab will take a long time, most likely all summer. Fact: Port St. Lucie, Florida is dreary and kind of deserted in summertime. Fact: the New York Rangers do not play hockey in Port St. Lucie. Fact: very, very few supermodels tend [...]
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The Mets front office has set some pretty lofty expectations for 2014. Sandy Alderson and other members of his staff have stated that they think the Mets can win 90 games this year. As expected, it didn’t go over to well with the media and with the public. Columnists, reports and fans laughed at the [...]
For Mets fans, the majority of the offseason was spent talking trade rumors. Names were thrown out on the trade block such as Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, Daniel Murphy, and Ruben Tejada. Right now, the Mets seem to be happy with Murphy, and content with the Davis/Duda/Josh Satin platoon. But Ruben Tejada still seems to [...]
In these days to be an oddity, be hunted down like a scarcity...
Since 2011, Sandy Alderson has received a ton of heat for his picks in the first round of the draft (excluding 2013). Many criticize his willingness to pick players that have high risk in high school. Some fail to realize that the draft is a huge risk in and of itself and just because a [...]
The final two weeks of spring training are crucial for every team. This is when we start to see fewer split-squad games. This is when we see regular lineups on a regular basis. This is when pitchers are fully “stretched out,” in the modern parlance – close to any pitch count or innings limit. This [...]
Kris Medlen is a very good pitcher. You will be forgiven for not knowing that because he’s rarely on the field enough to display this talent. Last season he started 31 games for the first time in his career, and it seems like he was well on his way to fully recovering from his 2010 [...]
Normally, drama surrounding the Philadelphia Phillies would give the average Met fan a cause for schadenfreudic celebration, but the most recent controversy – surrounding the benching of shortstop Jimmy Rollins by manager Ryne Sandberg – is a more somber occasion. Not necessarily because the situation isn’t funny, it is, but because some have called for [...]
Should the MRI prove that Jonathon Niese’s elbow is “A-Okay” later today, the Met front office cannot rejoice. Niese, thus far, has proven his arm is a liability in 2014 and sooner or later we will be waving goodbye as something will need to be done to fix the issue. While that remains a possibility, [...]