Saturday, April 18th marked a significant anniversary for Mets first baseman Lucas Duda. One year ago on that day, General Manager Sandy Alderson officially made the commitment that Duda was to be the undisputed Mets first baseman by shipping Ike Davis to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Zach Thornton and a Player To Be Named Later, [...]
Editor's Note - This piece was written before Sunday's injury
This may be the 10th article you’ve read about Jacob deGrom in the last 12 hours. But he’s been so good he’s deserved every one of them. He’s one pitch away from having not allowed a run in three starts. Even with that gopher ball, he’s got a 0.94 ERA in 19.1 IP. Raise your [...]
We're still very early in the season, which means we're still deep into small sample size territory. That doesn't mean we can't start analyzing what's happened so far, though, especially against the backdrop of the questions with which we entered the season. One of those major questions regarded what we could expect from a post-surgery [...]
Howie Rose on radio and Keith Hernandez on TV occasionally sprinkle into their broadcasts mentions of the board, now computer, game simulation Strat-O-Matic. Obviously both played the game a lot when they were younger. Even some ballplayers, notably Cal Ripken Jr., have admitted to playing the game on planes during their playing careers. Keith will [...]
*Author’s note: This was originally written and is accurate as of Thursday afternoon. The plan was to run this story before the Mets bested the Marlins 7-5 that evening. That game exemplified almost everything written in this story, which did not run in time. New York came back twice in the game, even after yielding [...]
“Who’s on third?” is a question that’s been asked by Mets fans over the years as much as Abbot and Costello. According to the UltimateMets database, 153 Mets players have manned the hot corner since the team’s 1962 inception. Make that 154 while we wait for the webmaster to add backup catcher turned emergency third [...]
It’s been quite the couple of days, hasn’t it? Only nine games into the shiny, new season and Mets fans have already seen a month’s worth of action, seems like. A little over a week ago came the surprise series win over the Nationals. Then came the equally surprising 1-2 stumble against the Braves in [...]