Normally my posts are in a positive light. We focus on who is doing particularly well in a given level and speak to their optimistic future. Today we are changing gears to talk about years that have gone wrong. Thomas Szapucki is a promising pitcher who emerged in 2016 as a potentially elite young arm [...]
Catch all trade thread
If it seems like the 2017 Mets can't win on Sundays, you're not imagining things. The Mets lost their fifth Sunday game in a row and are 5-12 for the season on Sundays. Seth Lugo didn't have his best stuff today, allowing five earned runs on eight hits in five innings. The Mets' bullpen - [...]
Glanville: "Having been a player is not a requirement for great commentary. And neither is being a man."
Relievers are fickle by nature. There are two main reasons for this. The first is that the better pitchers are most often starters and the second is that because relievers pitch fewer innings, they’re more susceptible to small sample size issues. When Jacob deGrom has a lousy eight inning stretch, he’s going to have 190 [...]
Usually, when the Mets are having a bad year, they become baseball's premier Hurler Health Spa: an MLB Lourdes where ailing pitchers go to get well. Such was the case this afternoon for veteran Seattle righty Yovani Gallardo. Gallardo only recently returned from a demotion to bullpen work and entered the game sporting a 4-7 [...]
Noah Syndergaard is as electric as they come in Major League Baseball. He has the personality of a mythical protagonist, and the type of velocity on a pitch that makes hitters shiver in their boots when they face him. After an astounding 2016 campaign, he was projected by many as the unquestioned ace of the [...]
In his return to where he is from, Michael Conforto shined. He had his fourth career multiple home run game, blasting two solo shots in his return. The more important of the two probably being the one that tied the game in the eighth for the Mets, as a rally that inning lead them to [...]
Remember the offseason when so many people wanted the Mets to sign Matt Wieters?