Last summer, the Mets faced up to the grim reality that their injury riddled team would not be able to compete for a playoff spot in 2017 and unloaded some veterans on expiring contracts. By season’s end the team resembled the 2015 White Sox. That is, they still had two frontline starting pitchers, a quality [...]
Fourth place?! How the heck did we get here and how do we climb out?
What in the world was going on? During an afternoon Mets game on May 9, 2018, your intrepid columnist was busy at work. Fortunately, his job affords him the luxury of internet access and the ability to follow a game online via MLB Gameday. So the afternoon was planned out: finish up outstanding projects, while [...]
A game that started with high comedy ended with dark drama for the Mets, who lost two-out-of-three to arguably the worst team in baseball. And of course, they wasted another terrific starting pitching performance in the process. The comedy took place in the first three hitters of the game. After Brandon Nimmo led off by [...]
You know you’re off to a rough start when you allow 4 ER in 4 IP and your ERA goes down. But that’s what free agent acquisition Jason Vargas is going through right now. He’s made three starts, managed just 12.1 IP and has allowed 19 ER, which works to a 13.86 ERA. He’s allowed [...]
On a night when the Mets somehow figured out how to get value for Matt Harvey, they couldn't figure out a way to get Jason Vargas to only pitch the even-numbered innings. For the third start in a row, Vargas gave up a passel of runs early. The first inning started with bloop singles by [...]
The Mets’ 2018 season has been up and down, with a graph of the wins and losses showing a sharp rise to start followed by the prolonged downturn we have been in. Inevitably, some of the fans are clamoring to see the Mets “tank,” a scenario in which the front office trades off some of [...]
The Cincinnati band box was just what the doctor ordered and the Mets ailing bats came to life in a 7-6 win over the Reds. Everything not hit on the ground seemed to sail over the wall at Great American Ball Park with the Mets out-slugging the Reds four home runs to three. The Mets [...]
If you weren’t paying attention, you might have missed that the Mets have started their 2017 Top Draft Pick in Columbia, instead of aggressively promoting him to Advanced A. Often times you see collegiate pitchers skip over the Full Season A leagues because teams are eager to get them to the majors. Afterall David Peterson [...]