There are a little over two weeks to go in spring training, but if you listened to Mike Puma in the New York Post yesterday, you’d think that Mets’ ace Jacob deGrom is ready for the season to start right now. Against the Houston Astros on Thursday, deGrom broke 100 mph on three consecutive pitches [...]
The Mets don’t seem to believe in J.D. Davis as a starting third baseman and after his performance in September of 2020, it’s not too difficult to understand why. After looking good initially upon his return to 3B, he got progressively worse defensively. And in his last 28 games, Davis put up a .202/.336/.330 line [...]
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NC State begins its 2021 postseason with a noon game Wednesday against Syracuse in the second round of the ACC tournament. Outside of the start time, the draw worked out as well as State could have hoped for. No one wants to play a noon game, pretty much ever. The lousy game against Virginia Tech [...]
Last week Sandy Alderson was interviewed with regard to Francisco Lindor’s extension. Alderson offered that the Mets will start extension talks soon concerning not just Lindor, but Michael Conforto and Noah Syndergaard as well. Because we have learned that Alderson’s messages are often brutally honest (like the “what outfield? We will build a wall behind [...]
With spring training underway, the Mets seem to have a mostly set starting lineup for the upcoming season. It is reasonable to assume that the starting lineup most days would include an outfield of Michael Conforto, Brandon Nimmo, and Dominic Smith. James McCann is set at catcher, and the infield would include Pete Alonso, Jeff [...]
It feels like March of 2020 never ended. There are memories of setting up preseason tracking documents and making predictions and then there is this long empty space where the minor league season was supposed to be and we’re right back to March. Only this March is looking to be different. This March we have [...]
Juan Lagares was and is a better defensive player than Brandon Nimmo. And even though he’s no longer on the team, the specter of Lagares and his defensive play still hangs over us, both the fans and – it seems to me – the actual decision makers of the club. No one is suggesting that [...]
When I was a kid, I loved the Olympics. Dave Wottle in ’72, the U.S. Olympic boxing team in ’76 and of course the U.S. hockey team in ’80. Things started to change in ’84., although the U.S. basketball team was still a big deal. The nationalism which is at the heart of the Olympics, [...]
Back in December, in an article about starting J.D. Davis at 3B, the idea was broached that this Mets’ lineup could score 1,000 runs in a season, a feat that’s only been done once in MLB history. Now, two assumptions went into that piece, the first being that there would be a DH in the [...]
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After truncated seasons in 2018 and 2019, Taijuan Walker pitched a full year in 2020. Of course, 2020 itself was a shortened campaign. So, with three years where he combined for just 67.1 IP, how will the computer models forecast him for 2021? Will any of them project him to surpass 150 IP, which is [...]