Zack Wheeler had an interesting 2014

Zack Wheeler had fairly a solid season in 2014. He's now had a year and a half of generally successful major league time, though he's still not the front-line starter that many had predicted he could become. He's still very young and has plenty of time to improve, but that doesn't mean we can't drill [...]

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Mets360 2015 projections: Zack Wheeler

Next up in our projection series is Zack Wheeler. Wheeler’s first full season in the major leagues was promising as it was frustrating – with him realizing improvements in most of his underlying peripheral stats including strikeout rate, walk rate, GB%, FIP and xFIP.  More importantly, Wheeler was able to toss 185.1 innings last year [...]

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Three weeks and a wake up: Spring training is near

The long winter is almost over, so on this Saturday morning you gets bits and pieces—we are all gearing up for February and that magical moment when actual players report for actual, official, baseball activities.  Pitchers and catchers report to camp on February 19th, signaling the beginning of Spring Training.  You just know that Daniel [...]

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Sandy Alderson ranks among greatest general managers of all-time

Sandy Alderson’s three pennants and one World Series championship, while a first-rate achievement, may not be quite enough to justify his ranking at number twelve. But Alderson’s place in history is enhanced by two considerations: he was the first modern GM to actively introduce analytics, though rudimentary by current standards, into a team’s decision making, [...]

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Evaluating BP’s forecast of an 82-80 record for the Mets

Baseball Prospectus recently came out with a prediction for the Mets record in 2015. They predicted that the Mets would win 82 games and lose 80. The question of course is whether this is possible or not. Potentially, this is actually a minimalist prediction. We’ll start with the concept of Pythagorean Won-Loss. This is one [...]

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Sandy Alderson’s signings: Good, bad and meh

Now in his fifth offseason as General Manager of the Mets, Sandy Alderson has a large enough sample size of free agent signings for us fans and critics to pass judgment. Following the 2010 season, Alderson was hired as GM and brought with him a dream team of lieutenants in former Toronto Blue Jays GM [...]

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Will John Mayberry Jr. signing hurt Eric Campbell, too?

Barring any Spring Training trade (ha!) or injury, the Mets’ 2015 Opening Day roster is pretty much set. There’s the usual battles for roster spots 23-25 but hopefully those are among players who have already seen time in the majors last year with the Mets. We all hope that the days of an NRI like [...]

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Mets360 2015 projections: Daniel Murphy

At this point in time, it’s safe to say that most of us are Daniel Murphy fans. That being said, the cold truth is that this time next year, we won’t be doing a prediction for him because he’ll be on another team. But we’ll blow up that bridge when we get to it. In [...]

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Ranking Sandy Alderson’s three best and worst Mets trades

Citi Field is currently buried in snow, as is the rest of the northeast, with many Mets fans only wanting to focus on warmer climates and when the team will head south. However, in these next three or so weeks is a chance for a GM to squeeze in a last-minute trade before his team [...]

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Can Michael Cuddyer really help the Mets?

When you run a baseball team in the biggest market in the world and your budget in 2015 is 19th in the sport, it’s a little insulting to the fanbase to shell out nearly 1/10th of that budget to a player who will be turning 36 before the start of the season, and who played [...]

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