The Mets dropped the rubber game of their series with the Reds, by a 7-2 score Thursday afternoon in Cincinnati. It looked good for the Mets on paper, with a day game and Jacob deGrom on the mound. But deGrom surrendered a two-run homer to Scooter Gennett and also gave up two other runs. The [...]
The Mets have traded a bunch of productive offensive players and the ones they didn’t trade are on the disabled list. Therefore, it’s not a surprise that in their last 17 games the Mets are averaging just 3.7 runs per game. Sure, they’ve played good teams in that stretch. They’ve also played the Marlins and [...]
When you see that stat line of 8.1 innings pitched, with no runs, three hits, and 8 strikeouts from a Mets pitcher, you'd probably expect it to come from Jacob deGrom. Against the Reds tonight though, those stats were produced by Rafael Montero, who earned his third win of the season. He did not let [...]
The Mets got their first 2017 look at the Reds last night. The Reds are not very good; they were 21 games under .500 entering play last night. But the Reds are far from your typical bad team. Their pitching is atrocious but their offense is actually quite good. Yet as good as their offense [...]
In a season full of lows, it is often hard to find the deepest depths of that despair. Injury ridden and beaten down, the Mets limped into Cincinnati hoping to face a Reds team just as lowly as they were. What they found instead may have been their lowest point of the season, coming by [...]
Terry Collins' tenure as the Met’s Manager is likely winding down as his contract expires after this season. Even if the Mets wanted to keep him, the 68 year-old Collins would probably not relish the idea of running a team in rebuilding mode next year. Is there someone in the Met’s organization who could be [...]
"During surgery, we fix everything that's damaged," Ahmad said. "If the capsule is torn, we fix the capsule. If the labrum is torn, we fix the labrum. If the shoulder is extremely loose in general, we will tighten everything up with the stitching." Following surgery, the player does not swing a bat for three months [...]
If I look at the 2017 season objectively, there is very little that I come away happy with. The Mets have suffered an absurd string of injuries that makes one wonder why Ray Ramirez seems to never be fired, they’ve underperformed and the team is beginning to look like it’s giving up on making a [...]
You know, in baseball, when you score a couple of runs to take a lead, it's imperative that you keep the other guys off the board in their at bat, preferably in order -- what they call a "clean inning" nowadays. Well, the Mets took a lead and followed that with a disgustingly dirty, shabby [...]