We're just a couple of days away from August, that hot and holiday-free bastard of a month. The air is thick with humidity, and damn if the Mets are not in the thick of a pennant race. The GM has made a couple of minor but meaningful moves to date, bringing in some versatile bats [...]
Jenrry Mejia's stupidity has cost the Mets his services for the foreseeable future. The Mets will not be reacquainted with Jose Reyes, nor will they be acquiring his new teammate, Carlos Gonzales. David Wright took a few tentative grounders on the Citi Field dirt. But none of that matters tonight. Let the rest of the [...]
Who killed every Mets executive and took over baseball activities? Seriously, who? The Mets have made two moves that have actually improved this team. The last time that Sandy “the Maverick” Alderson acquired a mid-season piece was back in 2013 when Eric Young Jr. came to Queens in exchange for 2014 ace and 2015 let-down [...]
Gary Cohen mentioned in Sunday’s broadcast against the Dodgers that Jacob deGrom is sitting on an impressive 1.48 ERA at home in 2015. In 2014 it was just a touch above at 1.70, for a combined career average of 1.59. That is utter domination, folks. His combined 2.05 ERA for the season is now second-best [...]
Clippard has a 2.79 ERA and a 1.190 WHIP in 38.2 IP for the A's this season with 17 Saves.
Back in 2012 the Mets traded R.A. Dickey, Mike Nickeas and Josh Thole to Toronto for John Buck and three minor leaguers. R.A. Dickey had just won the Cy Young award and was the knuckle-balling darling of baseball and Sandy Alderson traded him for a handful of magic beans. Those magical beans have proven pretty [...]
In Sandy Alderson's press briefing on Thursday he touched on a number of trade related subjects. And, of course, we have to dismiss much of what he says because his history (and that of most of his fellow GMs) is that he will often say one thing and do another. After all, Michael Conforto wasn't [...]
Jeurys Familia blew his second save in a week. The Mets didn't hit all that much against Zack Grienke. In fact, they had no extra-base hit at all, technically. And they won, anyway. Juan Uribe blasted a ball off the wall in the bottom of the 10th, scoring Curtis Granderson, who had led off with [...]
Sandy Alderson finally made a trade and acquired two veteran hitters in Kelly Johnson and Juan Uribe. The Mets were in need of some offensive pieces, and got two of them from their division rivals. As we continue to approach the trade deadline, Alderson said that he is still pursuing big moves to upgrade the [...]
Just about everything went right Saturday night. The new-look Mets lineup saw replacements Michael Conforto and Kirk Nieuwenhuis get four-hit games, import Kelly Johnson get two – including a homer – and struggling slugger Lucas Duda crack two long balls. The only thing we could have hoped for and didn’t get was a breakout for [...]