The last time the Mets were without a first round pick (2009) they selected Steven Matz a left-handed pitcher from Sony Brook, NY. Matz had fallen to the second round for two reasons, he was a player from the Northeast (an area that you can’t play baseball year-round) and he had an awkward delivery that [...]
At 42 years old, Bartolo Colon’s career is in its third act. Act one featured a young flamethrower with the Cleveland Indians, the Montreal Expos, the Chicago White Sox and the Anaheim-then-Los Angeles Angels. It was in this opening act that Colon was crowned the American League Cy Young Award winner in 2005 after going [...]
As a Mets fan, you never know where you’re going to find yourself. Oh, sure, you have a general idea of what will happen: history tells us that more often than not, they’re going to be bad. But even being bad carries with it some surprises. As far back as 1963, the brilliant baseball essayist [...]
Colon has two fastball types, and he has command of them both. Most simply, Colon throws a lot of his fastball. More accurately, Colon throws a lot of two fastballs. Most accurately, Colon throws a whole array of fastballs. Nothing about the batter-pitcher matchup is as black and white as you want it to be. [...]
The New York Mets (18-10) have gotten back into their winning ways with a sweep of the Baltimore Orioles in the rare two-game series. As they travel to Philadelphia to face off with the lowly Phillies, the Mets are far from bulletproof sitting at the top of the NL East. After riding an 11 game [...]
Dilson Herrera hammers as Jacob deGrom finds his deGroove. The Mets swept this abbreviated series with a decisive victory over Baltimore. For a game at least, the hitting looked almost formidable. Herrera gave us a glimpse of what has the scouts so excited for his future, turning in three-for-three performance, including his first home run [...]
There’s been some grumbling lately about the lack of production from the team’s corner outfielders. And when you take a look at their lines so far, it’s not hard to understand why. Michael Cuddyer has a .695 OPS while Curtis Granderson checks in with a .690 mark. When the two guys signed to (relatively) big-money [...]
2005 TOPPS HERITAGE BRETT HARPER So who's your favorite Harper? Perhaps you melt for Atticus Finch, have preordered your copy of Go Set a Watchman, and can think only of Harper Lee. Or maybe you're a publishing nerd with a soft spot for John and James Harper, 19th century forebears of the Harper & Brothers/Harper [...]
Bartolo Colon put the "sink" in Cinco de Mayo. And the Orioles were sunk. Colon pitched masterfully, leaving the game with two outs in the eighth, having struck out nine men and walked none. The offense came alive -- for them, anyway -- with a three-run uprising in the fourth to give the Mets just [...]
The New York Mets have typically based their winning teams off of the sole component of starting pitching. From the glory days of 1969 and 1973, to the dominant years of the mid 1980’s, heck, even the 1999-2000 and 2006 Mets had top-five team ERA’s. This tradition has carried over into 2015 with a 16-10 [...]
