In 2012, Matt Harvey came up and announced his presence with authority. Last year Zack Wheeler came up, dominated the Braves and by the end of the year had established himself as ready for prime time. These two may have created some unrealistic expectations for future rookies that the Mets promote. Right now we are [...]
Evaluating defense has always been imperfect. Primitive statistics, such as number of errors or fielding percentage, were very flawed. Newer statistics -- such as UZR and DRS -- are better, but still are flawed. It takes three years for UZR data to become a reliable sample, and three years is a good amount of time [...]