Here we are on the last day of December. Everyone is filled with happy thoughts about the promise of a new year. Throw out the old and welcome the new. It’s the way it’s always been. My belief is we should always welcome the new. Yet at the same time we should always celebrate that [...]
In what has been a busy offseason, many teams have improved themselves for 2015, and almost every team feels that they have a chance to make the playoffs. Some teams have made minor improvements (i.e. the Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, and Toronto Blue Jays), and some have made major improvements (i.e. the San Diego [...]
Recently, there was a report by Joel Sherman of the New York Post in which he had previously interviewed six MLB executives and one scout. One of his questions to the group was comparing the Mets and the Marlins: which of the two teams were more prepared for the upcoming season. The outcome was four [...]
Will Wilmer Flores see polar opposites in his defensive numbers from UZR and DRS in 2015?
The Top 4 prospects in the Mets farm system represents the immediate future of the New York call-ups. But it is far from definite that all these guys will be wearing a Mets uniform in the future. Some might get traded to upgrade the big squad, but who exactly might leave is anyone’s guess at [...]
Had the Mets not signed Michael Cuddyer or any other player that would cost them a draft pick in the draft in June, then they would have the 15th pick. From 2000 to 2009 every player that has been drafted 15th overall has made it to the major leagues. Some have performed better than others, [...]
A pleasant good Monday to you, the last one in 2014. Here's some news and notes to get your abridged workweek started. A picture went viral on Twitter showing that Las Vegas has the Mets at 12:1 odds to win the World Series in 2015. On one hand, those odds are probably skewed low by [...]
In 2012, the Mets called up 23-year old Matt Harvey, who seemed to take the league my storm. Likewise, in 2013, 23-year old Zack Wheeler was called up to the big leagues and performed fairly well. These two call-ups gave fans faith that this team had strong starting pitching coming up through the pipelines. Even [...]
It’s unusual to see a player make a transformation similar to the one that lefty-swinging Curtis Granderson has undergone in his performance versus lefty pitchers. Early in his career, Granderson experienced limited success versus southpaws. But in the second half of his career he’s handled them quite well. Last year he had a .742 OPS [...]
If you polled most fans about how they felt about the 2015 Mets bullpen, most would be fairly optimistic. The team has a good corps of relievers coming back and a lot of the dead weight from 2014 is either already gone or won’t make the team out of Spring Training. But is this optimism [...]
Grant Bisbee of SB Nation took a look earlier this week at three of the forgotten names in the free agent market: Asdrubal Cabrera, Stephen Drew and Colby Rasmus. While Rasmus, a lefty-hitting outfielder with good pop and not much else, doesn’t really serve as a fit on the 2015 Mets, Cabrera and Drew, both [...]
Like many, MetsBlog is a regular stop for me. Matt Cerrone has been very good to us here at Mets360. He was a guest on our podcast – back when we did them – and while MetsBlog doesn’t link to as many sites as it once did, we still get a few links, for which [...]