Sure, anything can happen…right? Can the Mets increase their win total from 79 this year to 100 next year? A 21 win leap would be the 3rd largest win total increase from one year to the next. The 1968 Mets won 73 games, and then 1969 Mets won exactly 100, a 27 win jump. The [...]
Heading into the offseason, the chorus that’s been beaten to death by pundits, fans, and pretty much everyone, is that the Mets need to upgrade at both shortstop and left field going into 2015 if they want to compete. The consensus seems to be that what the Mets got out of those two positions in [...]
The New York Mets failed to earn a playoff berth in 2014 because they didn’t win enough games. Oh, you want more? What if I said it was because they didn’t finish above .500? Still more? The Mets missed getting a ticket to the dance because they were so worried about getting on base they [...]