One night after a flat offensive performance, the Mets scored runs in the sixth and seventh innings to break a tie and emerge with a 5-3 win over the Rockies Saturday night at Citi Field. Perhaps the best thing that happened in this game was being more aggressive with the good pitchers. Much like with [...]
An incredible excerpt from the new book, "The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players."
At this point last season, Jason Vargas and Todd Frazier had become the latest laughingstocks in a long line of embarrassing misses in free agency for the New York Mets. Vargas had proved to be unreliable on the mound, and the once reliably healthy Frazier showed that even he was susceptible to injury once donning [...]
