There are two months left in the 2014 season, and it does not look like the Mets will be competing for a playoff spot. There have been flashes and streaks where the Mets’ play raises hopes and expectations for next year. If the Mets plan to compete next year, here are some questions that they [...]
Before the season started, we had an anonymous survey on the site where we asked various questions. One of them was: What should the Mets do about 1B? By far the most popular response among the four available answers was to go with Ike Davis. Here’s what you said: 54% – Go with Ike Davis/Josh [...]
Everyone’s an expert (or critic) after the fact. That’s why preseason projections are such a nice thing to have. Before the season started, the official Mets360 projection for Zack Wheeler was for a 3.48 ERA and a 3.68 FIP. Currently, he has numbers that are almost perfectly reversed, as he sports a 3.64 ERA and [...]
Michael Conforto is finally playing for Brooklyn and there is certainly a lot to like about what we’ve seen so far. What struck me about seeing him is how unlike the scouting report I’d read, he played. Conforto was pegged to be a power hitting outfielder who was good with the bat but in the [...]
When trying to project if a prospect will be able to produce at the major league level, it’s not as simple as looking at stats. Of course, you never really know how they will perform against the top level competition, but it’s also hard when the minor league stats are skewed because of where they [...]
Somehow it feels wrong writing this just days after Ruben Tejada took a mid-90s fastball to the head, but there’s no denying shortstop – and left field – has been a weakness for the New York Mets. Tejada’s numbers improved some as the 2014 campaign progressed, but a .235/.347/.292 slash with mediocre defense isn’t going [...]
It’s widely thought that Bartolo Colon will not finish this season as a member of the New York Mets. Colon helped this cause mightily by pitching a perfect game on Wednesday night into the seventh inning, before Robinson Cano broke it up with two outs. The only team directly connected to Colon has been the [...]
