Last night, Jon Niese cruised through seven innings in a cold, windy and rainy game in Philadelphia. Niese picked up his second victory and dropped his ERA to 2.20. In his career against the Phillies, Niese is 7-6 in 16 starts with a 3.00 ERA. For a man who has been with the Mets for [...]
The Mets have long been known to have high standards for homegrown pitching, and recently there has been an influx of starters that have come up and made an impact. Matt Harvey was the first of the recent influx and has been extremely successful, Zack Wheeler came up next and is currently making progress to [...]
The first month of the MLB regular season has come to an end, and the Mets have finished with an above .500 record. Although it got off to a rough start, the Mets began to emerge as threat despite their struggles offensively. So what is to come in the month of May for the Mets? [...]
The Mets enter tonight’s play sporting a 14-11 record. Being over .500 “this late” wasn’t something most people were betting on, for sure, but it’s also a matter of whom they’ve beaten as much the raw number of Ws. If someone had told you in late March that the Mets would be guaranteed a winning [...]
The Mets' bullpen seems to be in a constant state of flux so far in 2014. The heralded closer Bobby Parnell was supposed to be fully recovered from neck surgery, only to blow out his elbow in his first appearance of the year and be sidelined with Tommy John surgery. Jose Valverde stepped up, and [...]
By now, most of Mets’ Nation is aware that an incident took place last weekend involving the players and the media. The players rallied behind Bartolo Colon and declined to speak to the media until after Mike Puma of the New York Post departed. The issue was that Puma had written, "if Colon’s neck were [...]
The Mets drafted Brandon Nimmo is the 1st round (13th overall) in the 2011 draft. Nimmo had not played a lot of baseball because he’d grown up in Wyoming, but he’d shown a ton of promise in his small showcase. The issue? Some scouts saw Nimmo developing into a powerful corner outfielder and others saw [...]
It has been a rough start to the season for two-thirds of Sandy Alderson’s “big” free agency acquisitions. While Bartolo Colon has gotten off to a decent start, Chris Young and Curtis Granderson have stumbled somewhat in the early going. Young’s struggles have been much less alarming than Grandersons, mostly because of the much smaller [...]
Dillon Gee was masterful Sunday afternoon against the Marlins. He became the first Mets pitcher in 2014 to complete eight innings as he hurled eight scoreless frames in the team’s 4-0 win. With the outing, Gee lowered his ERA for the year to 2.88 and in six games this season, he’s hurled four quality starts. [...]