The two roads the Mets can go down after the demotion of Travis d’Arnaud

.557. .557 was the OPS of Carlos Zambrano in his first of three silver slugger seasons. Travis d’Arnaud had an OPS of .544, a number many call “atrocious.” At one point, d’Arnaud was the prized prospect in the Philadelphia and Toronto farm systems- and even ours. He was traded for two Cy Young award winners: [...]

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Quick Hitter: Thoughts on David Wright

After playing in the first 63 games of the season, and not performing anything close to what we have come to expect, Terry Collins finally gave David Wright a day off. Combined with the scheduled off day, Wright had two days to reflect, decompress, chill or whatever it is that pro players do when they're [...]

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An apology to Ruben Tejada

A few weeks ago, I claimed that Ruben Tejada's time with New York was done. His rather putrid offensive and defensive numbers had been improving only slightly by that article's publishing and there was no realistic indication that those improvements were going to stay. He had rebounded to have a few nice games, but for [...]

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