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With how often I fawn over a certain first base prospect, you might forget that I ranked Andres Gimenez #1 overall in the Met system. You might also forget this because my mentions of the young shortstop have been few and far between. That can be credited to his learning curve in Advanced A (Port [...]
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It was déjà vu all over again for the Mets, as they were unable to hold two multi-run leads en route to an 8-7 loss Sunday against the Brewers. After taking the first game in the series, the Mets dropped the last three games, with all three being very winnable contests. The offense has been [...]
Many years ago conventional wisdom in baseball claimed that a player’s peak occurred between the ages of 28-32. When researcher/author Bill James looked at the issue in his essay, “Looking for the Prime,” he concluded, “If you must assign a five-year peak period to all players regardless of description, the best shot would be 25 [...]
On a day where things started out good for the New York Mets, they got absolutely destroyed by the Brewers 17-6. Although the final score may something completely different, the game began quite well for the Mets. They built an early 3-0 lead in the first inning of the game, and it seemed that this [...]
Do you consider the Mets' 2015- ? run to be over?
Sports are a beautiful thing. Besides American Football, most sports compete on an international level. Whether it be at the Olympics, and/or specific competitions for the specific sports, when teams representing a country compete against another nation, it brings those watching together. No sport does it better than soccer, who holds the FIFA World Cup [...]
The Mets never seem to run out of ways to lose ugly. They let this winnable game get away thanks to AJ Ramos walking in the winning run in the 10th inning. Noah Syndergaard looked awful early (more on that later) but settled down to go six innings, allowing three run and striking out eight. [...]