If asked to name the biggest fluke season by a batter in Mets history, you might answer 1996 Bernard Gilkey or Lance Johnson from the same season. But what if we framed the question in a different way? What Met regular – defined here as someone who amassed at least 2,500 PA in their Mets [...]
Over the past four weeks, The Last Dance documentary chronicling the life and career of Michael Jordan has captured the minds and viewership of millions of Americans. Over the course of the documentary, fans both young and old either rekindled fond memories of Jordan, or developed a new found admiration for the former Chicago Bull [...]
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” The world rewards confident people, especially confident men. It would be nice if a neutral party kept score on people’s outsized confidence and then they had to wear it, like a W-L record. [...]
There seems to be a lot of momentum for the MLB season to get underway in early July with a schedule of around 80 games. Of course, we still don't know all of the details, including where the games will be played. One recent proposal was for games to be played in MLB parks right [...]
The owners are looking to use the pandemic to force players to accept a proposal that they've always rejected previously. MLB wants salaries to be a percentage of revenue. The players have rejected this in the past because it's a de facto salary cap. But the luxury tax threshold acts in the same way. Should [...]
The very first Mets season, 1962, was a dreadful one. That team, which lost 120 games, is sometimes cited as the worst team ever in modern baseball history. But there is a case to be made for a different team to be the worst, specifically the 1945 Philadelphia NL franchise, which actually used the nickname [...]
The Mets finished in the middle of the pack in 2019 which leaves the team with a mediocre 19th overall pick in the 2020 draft. In today's post we are going to feature several of the more likely players for the Mets to select with their 19th, 56th and 86th overall picks. Last season Brodie [...]
In 2015, Bryce Harper put up a 9.3 fWAR. He was already a heralded player and this pushed him into a different stratosphere. Starting in 2016, Harper has put up the following fWARs: 2.9, 4.8, 3.4 and 4.6 in his first year in Philadelphia. Now, a 4.6 fWAR is a really strong mark, one that [...]
In the absence of baseball, survival strategies for managing the pandemic reign supreme. As a scientist, it is hard to imagine the pathway for getting teams in isolation enough to play anytime soon. Rather than making another rear-looking assessment of past incarnations of Mets or thinking about some pathway to a 2020 season, here is [...]
There are three main ways to improve your team. You can draft amateurs; you can trade for players and you can sign free agents. The Mets of the late 70s were terrible because they weren’t good in any of these three areas. The farm system that once cranked out players slowed to a trickle once [...]
Bill Weiss lived for baseball. You might be tempted to say he forgot more about baseball than anyone else knows, except he never forgot a thing. He didn't like or use computers but had an incredible ability to recall details. And he was willing to talk to anyone. For six decades, from 1945 to 2005, [...]
In 1958, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants made their debuts in California, leaving behind a gaping hole in the hearts and mind of baseball fans in New York City. This massive wound that was left in their perspective fanbases lead to a new baseball franchise coming into existence in 1962, the [...]