In the past three years, the expectation of most fans was that Yoenis Cespedes would be the team's best hitter. But with Cespedes likely to miss at least half of the year, who will be the team's best position player seems to be a wide-open race. We're going to measure this by fWAR, which will [...]
Now that David Wright has moved from the field to the front office, we can assemble an all-time team of players who played their entire MLB careers with the Mets. Each player must have played at least one game at the position to which he is assigned. 1B… Ed Kranepool was an easy choice here. [...]
We often talk about minor leaguers and their ETAs (Estimated Time of Arrival) in the majors. A player like Ronny Mauricio may be a top tier, top quality prospect but his ETA is currently projected for 2022. (I’d probably call that ETA aggressive.) Today, we are going to look at players who are in line [...]
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There was a New York Post article where former GM Sandy Alderson was quoted as saying that he wished he had re-signed Daniel Murphy. It’s an easy thing to say in hindsight. Murphy was great in 2016 and 2017 before an injury-marred year last season. But you don’t get to make decisions in hindsight and [...]
For some, having a misconnection with millennials can cause a rift in communications. For Chili Davis, it costed him his job as hitting coach of the Chicago Cubs. The hitting coach has now been fired in consecutive seasons, first with the Boston Red Sox after the 2017 season, and then after the past season with [...]
As of this moment, FanGraphs has the Mets pegged for 85 wins and the NL East looking like this: Nationals 92-70 Mets 85-77 Braves 82-80 Phillies 79-83 Marlins 67-95 Given that hot stove rumors attach all of the top remaining free agents to our division, thing could tighten up in a hurry. In fact, depending [...]