Luis Castillo - the electric young pitcher, not the retired second baseman - showed the Mets why he leads all Major League starters in ERA. With a mix of high riding fastballs and darting change ups, he kept the Mets lineup off balance for six innings. The Mets lone run against him at that point [...]
One of GM Brodie Van Wagenens’ big offseason moves was signing free-agent catcher Wilson Ramos. Most fans and analysts were pleased with the move, as Ramos was a proven hitter with passable defense. One-time starter Travis d’Arnaud was annointed as the backup catcher, once a brief minor league rehab assignment was completed. However, things have [...]
Jesse Winker jumped on a first pitch fastball from Edwin Diaz for a go-ahead solo home run in the top of the 9th, and the Reds’ bullpen was able to close the game out providing 5.1 scoreless innings. The Reds got off to an early start in this series opener with four runs in the [...]
We talk about Woods Richardson, Szapucki, Kay and Peterson often enough. These are the starting pitchers who are supposed to make impacts at the major league level and who, based on their draft or previous successes, are supposed to be the best pitchers. Which means that few people will ever talk about Harol Gonzalez. At [...]
Baseball-Reference has this nice visual component to their site where if you go to a team page, they display thumbnails of the top 12 players on the team in bWAR. In addition to livening up the pages that normally just have text, it informs, too. Viewing the 2019 Mets, we see something that no one [...]
The Mets hit the field on a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon, looking to salvage a game from a listless series against the Milwaukee Brewers and to avoid falling below .500 for the first time this season. Steven Matz was entrusted with that task and he was more than up to it and deserved a [...]
Can Gio Gonzalez continue his mastery (11-2, 1.75 ERA) at Citi Field?
There are always wild and wacky stats early in the year. Perhaps my favorite Mets-related one is that the team is undefeated when they have a lead after six innings. When starting pitching was supposed to be a strength of the team, this would seem to add up to a great record for the club. [...]
The underlying theme of the night for the Mets was errors and miscues, particularly on the defensive side of the ball. The game started out with a slow dribbler to J.D. Davis, who was unable to handle the ball against a speedy Lorenzo Cain. Cain later scored on a throwing error by Pete Alonso, in [...]