Last year when the Mets needed to reach into their system and call up pitchers they weren’t expecting to, they got great results from both Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo. That fortune has not repeated itself this year with either Tyler Pill or Chris Flexen. It’s not a big surprise with either, as Pill doesn’t [...]
The easiest thing in the world to do is to say you knew something was going to happen, after it happens. Everyone's an expert after the fact. What I want to do here is have everyone weigh in on what they thought at the time about the Mets' most recent top picks. There's no sense [...]
Two weeks ago we talked about Peter Alonso and how he turned a disappointing season around shaking off an injury and proving that his successful 2016 campaign in Brooklyn was not a fluke. His line for the season is now .291/.367/.534 and he continues to show prodigious power. Additionally, you might notice that his walk [...]
The Mets and Dodgers have played against each other for 55 years before this season and L.A. had never swept them. Well, the 56th year apparently is the charm, as the Dodgers shut out the Mets, 8-0, Sunday night to complete the seven-game series sweep. The game was moved to the national ESPN game, which [...]
On Saturday, broadcaster Keith Hernandez called 36-year-old Curtis Granderson frisky. For those of us who grew up watching “Happy Days,” that word has a little bit different meaning. But clearly Hernandez meant it that Granderson was feeling good, as twice when he was on base he was looking to run. He got picked off by [...]
The Dodgers continue to bash their way to wins over the Mets, as they clubbed five homers en route to a 7-4 win Saturday afternoon at Citi Field. The Mets used three solo homers in the first inning to jump out to an early 3-0 lead. Michael Conforto led off with a blast and with [...]
For Sandy Alderson, the waters of the 2017 Trade Deadline were tricky to navigate. While only he knows the true intentions of the organization and what direction they want to go, it was expected by many that the Mets would sell at the deadline. Well, the Mets did sell. They shopped first baseman Lucas Duda [...]
The Dodgers continued their mastery over the Mets with a 6-0 win Friday night. Los Angeles has won five straight over the Mets this season and their last seven games against New York. This season the Dodgers are clubbing the Mets into submission and the move to New York did not change things. The visitors [...]
If the season ended right now this writer would have accurately picked five out of six division winners. We all had high hopes for the Mets coming into this year. We've been dealt a really bad hand in 2017. The 2015 season is starting to look a lot like 2006 and we're trying to bluff [...]