Raise your hand if you predicted a pitching duel between Bartolo Colon and Vince Velasquez. Well, that's exactly what we witnessed in Colon's first start of the 2016 season. Unfortunately, the Mets lost the duel 1-0. The aforementioned Colon carried over his dominance of the Phillies from 2015, striking out seven over six innings. His [...]
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The Mets' offense came alive, scoring in three different innings and putting up crooked numbers in two of them, which led to a 7-2 win over the Phillies in the team's home opener on Friday afternoon. New York pounded out nine hits, with Michael Conforto and Neil Walker contributing two apiece. Conforto had 3 RBIs [...]
In comparing 2016 team payrolls, the Mets sit squarely in the middle, ranked 15th of 30 teams. At the top are the Dodgers ($248 million) and Yankees ($228 million), followed by the Red Sox and Tigers, each just a whisker under $200 million. The next group of teams with payrolls ranging from $158 million to [...]
For the Mets, it’s been an odd start to the 2016 season. First off, no one has ever opened a season with, basically, a continuation of the World Series. If Lucas Duda’s infamous throw had been on the money in game five, they would have headed back to Kansas City on November 2. Instead, it [...]
When baseball fans, especially those with decades of viewing experience, discuss players they often use a shorthand approach to describe players. They use comps which is short for comparables. The more experienced the player is the easier it is to find someone comparable but for the newbies, rookies, and those who haven’t even arrived in [...]
It's pretty simple - all the Mets have to do to defeat the Royals is start Noah Syndergaard. He combined with three relievers on a dominating outing, leading the Mets to their first win of the year, a 2-0 victory over Kansas City Tuesday afternoon. The big difference in this game from the opener was [...]
The season has finally begun, and the teams are off to compete for a playoff position. Of course it is early to analyze players based on a one game performance, so instead, we can have a discussion about a theme that may be going on throughout the season. It did not mean much to see [...]
It was Groundhog Day for the Mets, as they re-lived some of the darker moments from the World Series in dropping a 4-3 game to the Royals in Kansas City. Royals took an early lead with an unearned run that scored on a weak single. Two singles and a SF for their second run. Their [...]