The Mets came into 2015 with an offense that likely didn’t have any superstars but which compensated by not having any sinkholes. It was a reasonable plan, at least until David Wright, Travis d’Arnaud and Daniel Murphy all hit the DL. Then the Mets had an offense with no superstars and three sinkholes. But d’Arnaud [...]
At 22 years old and playing his first full season in the minors, Michael Conforto is already the best outfield prospect I’ve seen in the past fifteen years. He hits for power, he hits for contact and he’s not seasons and seasons of sustained play away from helping the major league franchise. What has he [...]
The New York Mets have had many concerns throughout the 2015 season, starting with injuries to key players, an inexperienced shortstop, and a struggling offense. The starting rotation has overcome Zack Wheeler’s injury nicely, and the bullpen has not been bad, although they struggled yesterday when Jeurys Familia was unavailable. Wilmer Flores has been solid [...]
Whew! If last night's loss left a bad taste in the mouth, the start to Sunday's game was like drinking acid. Dillon Gee got severely knocked around for 11 hits and eight runs over just 3.2 innings of "work". His value to both this team or any other has got to be at a career [...]
Since the end of World War II, there have only been 39 second basemen to come up and get 100 PA in the majors by their age 21 season. Of those, there are only nine players to amass an OPS+ of 100 or more in this time span. Eight of them have played at least [...]
The scoreboard doesn't always tell the truth about a game. You could tell by Jacob deGrom's line that he had a great day, going seven strong innings of one-run baseball. He ended his day by striking out nine, walking one and only a first-inning Freddie Freeman home run to blemish an otherwise perfect afternoon. What the [...]
Every season I try to attend a few of the Mets' minor league affiliate games to see the future in action. This past week I did just that and had the pleasure of catching a Double-A Eastern League game between the Binghamton Mets and the Orioles' Bowie Baysox on June 11 in Bowie, Maryland. Please [...]
This article originally started out as one entitled “Can the Mets’ dyfunctionality be fixed?”. It was going to first describe the dysfunction starting with underfinanced ownership that won’t or can’t put enough money towards payroll to field what should be a big market team. From there it would discuss a General Manager who knowingly has [...]
Once again Bartolo Colon took care of business, as he went six innings and only allowed two runs. The Mets ended up beating their division rivals 5-3. The Mets offense had a good showing against Alex Wood, as they scored five runs, and took advantage of an errant pickoff throw from Wood. Wilmer Flores started [...]