Many of the Mets360 readers participate in Fantasy Baseball Leagues. Others like yours truly are active in Strat-O-Matic. And then there’s Sandy Alderson and his subordinates who are running the New York Mets. What we all have in common in building our respective teams is the knowledge that a team has its strengths and its [...]
Now this is how they drew it up. The Mets got wondrous pitching from Jacob deGrom and offense from a lot of guys not named Jay Bruce to give the Yankees a thorough 7-1 spanking. deGrom scuffled a bit in the first two innings, stranding two runners in each. The Mets had a hard time [...]
Lost amidst the flurry of deadlines deals in general, and the Jay Bruce trade specifically, the Mets and Pirates conducted a swap of disappointing lefties, with the Mets giving up Antonio Bastardo for Jon Niese. FanGraphs listed a summary of 25 deadline deals and this one didn’t make the cut. Yet could it be a [...]
The Yankees traded everybody the last two days. The Mets were playing with a short bullpen and a short bench. These two outmanned teams played a terrific ballgame, which resulted in another painful loss for the Mets. For the third time in a week, the Mets blew a lead in the eighth inning or later. [...]
The Mets sent Dilson Herrera and Max Wotell to the Reds for Jay Bruce. The newest acquisition has the power that Sandy Alderson likes but he'll mean playing either Michael Conforto or Curtis Granderson in CF for the foreseeable future. Where do you stand?
For the second straight year, the Mets have acquired an impact bat at the trading deadline, this time picking up OF Jay Bruce from the Reds in exchange for Brandon Nimmo and two other prospect. The deal is pending physicals. The Mets were rumored to be interested in Bruce this time last year, when the [...]
Braving the rain and terrible drivers in and around Brooklyn, I decided to catch a game in Coney Island to get to see my favorite rising star within the Met organization, Thomas Szapucki. The game time was 4:00 PM and the rain held off, for the most part, and I was ready to see Szapucki [...]