Sandy Alderson took a stroll down Sabermetric Lane yesterday, much to the delight of the “LOLMets” crowd. His main point was basically to say, “Hey, look. We’re not as bad as we seem. We’ve only been outscored by four runs so far this season. Things are due to even out, so stick with us.” As [...]
Abraham Lincoln once said, “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt." Apparently nobody ever told that to Mike Puma of the New York Post. Not only has Puma gotten himself in trouble this year for an unprofessional and unfunny joke about Mets starting pitcher Bartolo [...]
In 2013, the Mets took Dominic Smith with their first-round pick in the annual draft. A high school product, Smith was assigned to the Gulf Coast League, which the Mets operate as the lowest of their three short-season clubs. He got a cup of coffee at the end of the year with Brooklyn Kingsport, which [...]
Yesterday a firestorm was started when Terry Collins was asked about the promotion of Noah Syndergaard. His non-commitment to an answer worried fans that maybe Syndergaard would not be promoted this season. A little bit later in the day, a report surfaced that a scout inside the Mets organization believes that Syndergaard should stay in [...]
The list of adjectives to describe outfielder Chris Young’s 2014 season is endless: awful; disappointing; miserable; painful; rage-inducing and sad. Underperforming expectations is more likely the phrase Mets ownership would use, and yet somehow it’s far too merciful. But negativity aside, what exactly is Young doing as a Met? The numbers expose some interesting trends [...]
Jeremy Hefner is doing well in his Tommy John rehab…if anybody cares. Not to be rude, but it seems that nobody really cares about Hefner and his Tommy John surgery. When Matt Harvey had the same surgery, all eyes were on him (and they still are). But Hefner has seems to have completely fallen under [...]
Mike Draper and the mad men of the '93 Mets.
As the season starts to drift away once again, the Mets must start to take a step back, take stock, and decide who has delivered and who has not. The pitching has actually been worse than expected, ranking very well among the league’s best in ERA, but terrible in walks issued. Due to the extreme [...]
The Mets went to Atlanta last night having lost four of their last six games. It’s never good news when the Mets travel to Georgia – it hasn’t been since that chamber of horrors opened in 1997 – and particularly bad when they go in reeling. So it came as no shock that a pretty [...]
Monday night's performance was fairly typical for Zach Wheeler this year. He pitched a fairly short outing of 6.1 innings because of high pitch counts, accounting for 113 pitches thrown, five walks, four strikeouts, and one earned run. On a better team, that could have easily led to a win, but Wheeler plays for the [...]