No, this isn’t about the number of bases-on-balls the Mets receive as a team – they’re just slightly above MLB average in that department, although there have been a few perfectly timed free passes. This is about how every time the Mets are left for dead, they’ll just keep coming back. It seems like for [...]
Curtis Granderson could not have picked a better night to stroke his 300th career home run. With the game tied 4-4 in the eight, Granderson cracked a line drive over the right field wall to give the Mets a 5-4 edge over the Chicago Cubs. It was a comeback effort all night for the Mets, [...]
The MLB All-Star game is less than a month away, it’s scheduled for Marlins Park in Miami on July 11. At the the beginning of this season, Mets fans could reasonably hope for players like Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom and Yoenis Cespedes to be serious contenders for the NL squad, with several others having decent [...]
It is very rare that you can look at an outing for a player and not be able to take any positives out of it. For Zach Wheeler, it was just one of those nights. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Mets 14-3. He was unable to make it through two innings, allowing eight earned runs [...]
In the 2016 MLB Draft, the Mets selected Justin Dunn out of Boston College with the 19th overall pick. A hard throwing righty, the Mets are looking to develop Dunn into a powerful starting pitcher. While at Boston College, Dunn started as a reliever for his first two seasons. When he became a starter though, [...]
A double play is a pitcher's best friend, as the hoary cliché goes. Jacob deGrom decided to have a few friends over tonight, with Neil Walker as the chauffer. deGrom induced 4-6-3 double plays in four straight innings in the service of throttling the World Champion Cubs, a complete game (!!!) five-hitter. The Mets won [...]
With the draft later today we’re going to look at some of the names that the Mets might be looking at in the draft with their 20th pick. Let’s take a peek at who the experts think the Mets are likely to draft: Baseball America - Trevor Rogers: A left handed pitcher out of [...]
Since the cavalry arrived in the form of – in order of appearance – Yoenis Cespedes, Steven Matz and Seth Lugo, the Mets are 3-0. And the reinforcements couldn’t have come at a better time, as the Mets are ready to embark on the toughest part of their schedule. The next 11 games come against [...]
Behind another strong pitching effort, the Mets won for the fourth time in their last five games with a 2-1 victory over the Braves Sunday afternoon in Atlanta. The Mets took three out of four against their division rivals. Seth Lugo made his first start of the season and he kept the team's recent string [...]