Noah Syndergaard returned to action with a flourish, pitching and hitting the Mets to a 4-2 victory over the Nationals Friday night. Syndergaard scattered seven hits over five innings and allowed just one run. He also delivered an RBI single that gave the Mets a 4-0 lead. The Mets gave Syndergaard an early lead, as [...]
Last Wednesday, position players Daniel Descalso and Alex Avila combined for a 4.2 innings of relief work. Max Rieper, of Royals Review, just posted a piece entitled, This is the year of position players pitching. Hey, it's got to be better than using Buddy Baumann (24.00 ERA) and Gerson Bautista (12.46 ERA) From the Joe [...]
Whether you chalk it up to coming back from a serious shoulder injury or not having protection in the lineup with Yoenis Cespedes, Jay Bruce and Todd Frazier injured, there's no denying that Michael Conforto's performance through the first three and a half months of the season has been a major disappointment. The 25-year-old outfielder [...]
Matt Harvey, Hansel Robles and Erik Goeddel are all pitching well since leaving the Mets. Can this just be chalked up to a needed change of scenery or is there something more to this?