Two fine pitchers going against two good offenses. At least on paper.
The Mets were one of 10 teams to replace their manager this past offseason. Let's check in and see how those clubs are doing. The first number will be the team's winning percentage in 2019 and the second number will be the 2020 winning percentage: Angels - Joe Maddon: .444, .408 Astros - Dusty Baker: [...]
In a matchup of former Cy Young Award winners with lousy current ERAs, Jake Arrieta did a better imitation of a top pitcher, leading the Phillies to a 4-1 win Tuesday night in Philadelphia, sending the Mets to their third straight loss. In two games against the Mets this season, Arrieta is 2-0 with a [...]
You can't sweep if you don't win the first game.
Play better. That’s easier said than done. While the Mets have won more of deGrom’s starts this year compared to the horror shows of 2018 and 2019, they’re still not a playoff caliber team. The offense looks good as the Mets are doing much better with RISP. Jeff McNeil is finding his power and his [...]
The Mets have a few problems looming ahead of them as they look towards the end of the 2020 season and beyond. Some of them are very bad problems, like the pitiful rotation pieces after Jacob deGrom and Seth Lugo but, some of them are good problems to have. One such “Good Problem” has been [...]
Jeff McNeil left the game with stomach issues and the rest of us got them once the relievers came into the game, as the Blue Jays took the rubber game of the series with a 7-3 win. After an off day on Monday, the Mets will resume action in a major league city, as they [...]
Peterson looks to rebound from his worst start of the season.
It used to be that you talked about a team’s performance with runners in scoring position and people’s eyes would glaze over. And then 2016 happened, when for nearly five months out of the season, the Mets had the worst performance in the category since the expansion Padres in 1969. Then people started taking notice. [...]
If you like lousy hitting, poor baserunning, bad umpiring and terrible defense, boy this game was for you. It sure didn’t resemble major league baseball, which is fitting since the game was played in Buffalo. The Blue Jays won the game on a pickoff play, one that was originally called safe and overruled by replay, [...]
With his HR last night, Wilson Ramos moved into sole possession of 10th place on the Mets' all-time HR list for catchers. He's now one behind Ron Hodges and Jason Phillips.
2020 is definitely a weird neighborhood to find yourself in. When you’re talking about this year, everything is in question and anything you thought you’d believed in is up for grabs, be it politics, health, societal norms and yes, even sports. To wit: we are in the home stretch of the 2020 baseball season, but [...]