Monday’s win feels like a watershed moment for the Mets

It’s easy to identify big moments late in the season or in the playoffs. But identifying watershed events in the first month of a baseball season is another matter entirely. It’s possible we witnessed one of those Monday night in Miami. Coming into the season, most people had the Mets and Marlins pretty much even. [...]

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Wilmer Flores: Where does his future lie?

With the Mets current record running at an impressive 15-5, not many things have gone wrong- except the injuries, of course. This start even more impressive considering the team received more criticism for the questions surrounding the team than praise for the talent that lies on the roster. One major question that was consistently dogging [...]

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Lucas Duda is your Mets MVP candidate

Disclaimer, this article was written before Sunday’s game. When discussing pure power, Lucas Duda measures toe to toe with some of the elite hitters in the game. His two home runs so far this season have traveled 369 ft and 436 ft, and his average home run traveled over 403 ft last year, well above [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 3 Marlins 1 (4/27/15)

Daniel Murphy's 3-run homer in the top of the 9th gave the Mets a most improbable and much needed win in the series opener in Miami. The Mets arrived in Florida at 4:30 AM and the offense showed it. Through 8 innings, the New Yorkers could only muster 2 hits, a 2 out single by [...]

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Gee or Montero, who deserves the fifth spot in the rotation?

Since before the beginning of spring training, Dillon Gee has been told many different things about what his role for the 2015 Mets will be.  He started out as the sixth man in the rotation with Rafael Montero in the bullpen.  Then it was rumored that he was going to be traded, but then it [...]

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The coming conundrum: Travis d’Arnaud or Kevin Plawecki?

It's often been said that it's a good kind of problem to have when as a baseball team you have a surplus of high end talent at one position. I tend to agree with that statement in most cases because usually there are workable ways to trade your surplus to fill an area of need [...]

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Mets Minors: Dilson Herrera is knocking at the door

Kevin Plawecki is already in the majors, proving the bevvy of talent that was stock-piled in AAA.  Next in the queue waiting for a shot at the majors is Dilson Herrera.  How long it takes him to reach the majors depends on many things but, at this point most of them are beyond his control. [...]

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Gut Reaction: Yankees 6, Mets 4 (4/26/15)

The Yankees took the rubber match of the series with a 6-4 win Sunday night. With the loss, the Mets' record drops to 14-5. Jon Niese didn't pitch great but it might have been better than it looked. He had a 73.7 GB% and the defense had four errors behind him. For the outing he [...]

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Can the “new” Jon Niese continue his success versus the Yankees?

Jon Niese goes to the mound tonight as the Mets look to take the rubber game of the road series against the Yankees. Niese has had pretty good success versus the Yankees in his career, with a 2.05 ERA and 5 BB and 22 Ks in 26.1 IP. He’s also 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA [...]

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