After shocking the baseball world by trading for Marcus Stroman and then surprising no one by giving away Jason Vargas to save a few bucks, the Mets stood pat at the trade deadline. Zack Wheeler's name was seemingly brought up more times than Donald Trump's in the past 48 hours. But despite rumors having him [...]
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The Mets made headlines ahead of today’s trade deadline by sending their top two pitching prospects to the Toronto Blue Jays for Marcus Stroman. Now, at first glance one might think that the Mets overpaid by giving up Anthony Kay and Simeon Woods Richardson for the veteran right hander. However, a deeper look reveals that [...]
Jeff McNeil and Michael Conforto hit back-to-back homers in the 11th inning to lift the Mets to their fifth-straight win, a 5-2 decision over the White Sox in the opener of their three-game series. The win broke a streak of seven straight extra-inning losses for the Mets. Noah Syndergaard, the subject of numerous trade rumors, [...]
Met shortstop Amed Rosario, although usually consigned to the 8th spot in the batting order, has been putting in a pretty good year with the bat. For the season he has assembled a slash line of .270/.312/.439, not bad for a bottom of the order hitter. But if we look more recently, we find even [...]
The Mets made another move today, sending Jason Vargas to the Phillies for veteran minor league catcher Austin Bossart. I had the chance to watch Bossart play for two seasons in the Coastal Plain League. At no point did I think he was an MLB prospect. This was a salary dump. And it's unfortunate because [...]
About a month ago the Mets360 podcast host asked me for a “Crazy Prediction." My “Crazy Prediction” was that Andres Gimenez would fall out of the Top 5 Met prospects by the start of the 2020 season. This was, in part, because of my frustrations with Gimenez’s performance but also because the Mets success at [...]
SNY and other media outlets are reporting that the Mets have traded for Blue Jays All-Star pitcher Marcus Stroman. Going to Toronto are two top 10 prospects in LHP Anthony Kay and RHP Simeon Woods Richardson. Stroman, a 5'7 RHP, is just 6-11 this season despite a 2.96 ERA and a 3.52 FIP. He's done [...]
The Mets put up a six-spot in the first inning but had to sweat out the ninth before emerging with an 8-7 win on Sunday and a sweep of the Pirates. The Mets are riding a four-game winning streak and are now 10-5 since the All-Star break, their best 15-game stretch of the 2019 season. [...]
The Mets have played well coming out of the All-Star break, going 9-5, which is a 104-win pace over 162 games. Of course, they haven’t played very much like that the rest of the 2019 season. In fact, it ties for the best 14-game stretch of the year. The only other time they went 9-5 [...]