The Mets notched their third straight win and their 12 victory in their last 16 games with a 3-0 shutout of the Rockies Wednesday night. Jacob deGrom continued his marvelous streak of pitching, hurling seven shutout innings with 10 strikeouts. The only negative was he ended the team's streak of walkless innings. In fact, he [...]
The New York Mets have been dubbed the biggest story of 2015 by many sports writers, and rightfully so. This season, the Mets have gone from the best team in baseball, to one of the worst teams, and back to one of the best. The Mets’ recent success is mostly due to the additions made [...]
One of the hardest things a manager has to do is run his bullpen and there are very few skippers who do it well year in and year out. There are a number of reasons for this and one of them is the sample size issue. It’s rare for a current reliever to exceed 80 [...]
The ghost of my older brother is usually pretty silent. Sure, it makes some noise around the holidays, slipping into the credenza to rattle the commemorative Norman Rockwell dishes that he bought for our mother inexplicably each Christmas. And sadly I hear it now making sounds of distressing assent while Donald Trump cheapens the democratic [...]