With Daniel Murphy seemingly destined to start the season on the disabled list after suffering a hamstring injury, the Opening Day second base job most likely belongs to Ruben Tejada. With Wilmer Flores sporting a walking boot after fouling a ball off his foot on Sunday’s game against the Yankees, Matt Reynolds appears to be [...]
The Mets have suffered some devastating injuries to their pitching staff this spring, including Josh Edgin and Zack Wheeler. However, the starting lineup has an injury that will impact the first couple of weeks. Daniel Murphy may be placed on the disabled list with a right hamstring injury, creating a need to find a second [...]
Look, all I know is what they taught me at SABR Blogging school. There are certain rules about baseball. Rule number one is young pitchers get hurt. And rule number two is strategy can't change rule number one. Now is an appropriate time to re-work this M*A*S*H quote. It seems all that anyone wants to [...]
Part of the fallout of the news of Zack Wheeler's impending Tommy John (TJ) surgery has been the commentary on the way in which the Mets managed his innings and (later reported) ailments last season. There have been plenty of Monday morning doctors, fueled by tidbits of information spun into speculation by the media, suggesting [...]
MLB.com has released its top 30 Mets prospect list, which you can see here. The best thing about the list is the pictures that accompany each player. If you're looking for analysis, you'll be disappointed. But that's okay. At this point you likely know who all of the guys are, anyway. The Mets' system is [...]
After a terrific regular season in 1972 and a nail biting rush to the division title with the Pirates, the Mets had fallen short of returning to the World Series, again falling to the Big Red Machine from Cincinnati, as they had in 1970. After losing out to the Reds twice in three years, the [...]
Given all the questions surrounding the Mets – unproven players, key contributors coming back from injuries, etc – it’s not easy to objectively predict what the 2015 season has in store for them. Here are some predictions from three perspectives. The 2015 Mets – the Rose Colored Glasses Edition Matt Harvey continues his spring dominance [...]
The experts say the Mets are lacking at shortstop, have been since Jose Reyes took his talents to South Florida after 2011. Considering that Reyes had just won the Mets’ first batting title in 50 seasons of baseball and that his initial replacement was Ruben Tejada, the experts have not been wrong. Tejada put up [...]
After the news broke of Zack Wheeler’s injury some people panicked and said that this was another Generation K, while others looked at it as a way to test the depth. In any case, the Mets should still be able to absorb the loss and attempt to compete 2015. But from this loss, what have [...]