Bartolo Colon won six of his first seven decisions and we had visions of 2013 dancing in our head. Unfortunately, things didn’t remain this rosy the rest of the year. Of course, six of those first seven games were against NL East clubs and the seventh was a home game against an Orioles squad that [...]
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The Mets thought they had something special when they drafted Steven Matz back in 2009. But because of injuries, he didn’t make it onto a mound for his professional debut until 2012. His number were good in both 2012 and 2013 but he didn’t pitch a ton of innings in either season, plus he was [...]
ESPN's Adam Rubin posted an interesting story yesterday regarding Matt Harvey's potential performance in 2016. Specifically, he highlights manager Terry Collins' comments that Harvey has shown more spin on his slider and more late life on his fastball this spring than he had all of last season. If this is true, this is a very [...]
Some scouts thought he would need to move to the outfield.
Sandy Koufax, widely considered among the most dominant pitchers in baseball history, had his career end at age 30 due to unbearable pain in his left elbow. It was thought to be incurable arthritis, but we now know it was likely a torn ulnar collateral ligament – the all-important elastic piece of the elbow that [...]
This time a year ago, Michael Conforto was one of the prospects who made the Mets’ system one of the best in the game. Few imagined that he would make his MLB debut in 2015 and virtually no one expected him to no longer maintain rookie status for 2016. Conforto had an outstanding rookie season [...]
On a snowy Friday night in late January, 2016, the New York Mets announced that they had re-signed slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to an extremely lucrative three-year contract. As most on the east coast were socked in, holed up at home amid mountainous snow piles, Met fans danced in the streets – well, the streets [...]
The Mets will play their 8,617th regular season National League game when they open the 2016 season in April. This old timer of a fan has seen the majority of those games on TV. While it has not always been the case that I have a favorite player or players each year there have always [...]
Closers have been hot commodities throughout this past offseason. Craig Kimbrel was traded for a package of solid players in order to close out games in Boston this upcoming season. Aroldis Chapman joined Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller in the backend of the Yankees’ bullpen in order to shorten the games. The Kansas City Royals [...]
Dave Cameron ranked the offseason moves of all 30 teams. Here's what he had to say about the Mets: The Mets had one of the weirdest offseasons of any team in baseball. After watching their defense betray them in the World Series, they doubled down on poor defenders, bringing in Asdrubal Cabrera and Neil Walker [...]
Steven Matz made his MLB debut last year in late June and was impressive in two starts before landing on the disabled list with a torn lat. He was sidelined for three months but came back to make four more starts in the regular season and three more in the playoffs. It’s a rather unique [...]