Robinson Cano crushed three homers to back six shutout innings by Jason Vargas to lead the Mets to a 5-2 win in the opening game of a three-game series against the Padres in Citi Field Tuesday night. Cano hit a solo shot in the fourth inning and added two-run blasts in the sixth and seventh [...]
One of the first moves the new Mets front office made in their first season was to release batting coach Pat Roessler and replace him with newly fired Cubs’ batting coach Chilli Davis. So far it’s fair to say that’s one offseason move that is working out. Roessler had been with the Mets since 2015, [...]
Through the tail end of 2016 Thomas Szapucki was the darling of Mets360. Writers here were over the moon with his dominant numbers in Kingsport and Brooklyn and the scouts all agreed that his “stuff” had gotten significantly better. 2017 saw injury and despite working through a rehab regimen to avoid Tommy John surgery, we [...]
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For the third time in four games, the Mets and Giants played extra innings and for the third time, the Giants came out on top, this time by a 3-2 score Sunday in San Francisco. Mike Yazstrzemski delivered a walk-off homer to left field in the bottom of the 12th to send the Mets to [...]
Brian is scheduled for the Gut Reaction
Coming into 2019, we were expecting great things from Michael Conforto, based on his draft stats and what he had shown in varying lengths in previous seasons. In 2018, Conforto was coming back off a shoulder injury and was unimpressive early in the year. But after the All-Star break he put up an .895 OPS. [...]
There are points in a season where every winning team faces a turning point, and this point of the season is not usually recognized until a later point in time. The 2015 season saw the almost trade of Wilmer Flores and a sweep of the Washington Nationals propel the Mets all the way to the [...]
Brendan is scheduled for the Gut Reaction
Well, the Mets ripped defeat from the jaws of victory and I’m partially to blame, as I started to write this piece during the top of the 16th inning when the Mets took the lead. But both teams went through their entire bullpens and Chris Mazza simply had nothing left when he took the mound [...]
Brian is scheduled for the Gut Reaction