The first five months of 2016 the Mets couldn’t hit with RISP and it was painful. In 2013, Terry Collins wrote the names John Buck, Ike Davis and Ruben Tejada into the lineup day after day after day when all three were hitting worse than pitchers. It was so bad – they were dubbed here [...]
As we head to the last day of April, the Reds lead the National League with a 5.33 runs per game average. Meanwhile, the NL has a 4.31 rpg average. And the Mets? As you might have guessed, they are last in the 15-team league with a 3.00 mark. It makes a certain preseason prediction [...]
Benjamin Franklin was a comedic philosopher. Certainly, he is known as a Philadelphian, but he certainly had the Mets on his mind during the early 1700s. Yes, Poor Richard’s Almanack was printed from 1732 to 1758, and Franklin’s witticisms found therein are largely from the first half of the century. Side note, Franklin was born [...]
The Red Sox came in to this brief two-game series with one of the best offenses in the game. So, the Mets hold them to a total of three runs and somehow end up getting swept. Wednesday night the Mets lost, 1-0, and stop me if you’ve heard this before but they wasted another big [...]
Of the Mets' eight primary starters, three check in with an OPS of .850 or better while five are at .710 and below. Three of the five hitters who are struggling can point to the hits not falling in. Which brings us to Michael Conforto and James McCann. Conforto has a lifetime .305 BABIP and [...]
Red Sox pitchers fanned 13 without allowing a walk, leading Boston to a 2-1 win over the Mets Tuesday night at Citi Field. David Peterson gave a strong effort, a nice bounceback from his last outing, but it wasn’t enough, as he allowed 2 ER in 6 IP. The Mets got three scoreless innings from [...]
The 2021 season is a long way from its end, but Jacob deGrom sure seems like he is on his way to an epic season, and perhaps to accomplish a feat that has never been done before. Specifically, that would be deGrom winning the Cy Young, MVP, Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards all in [...]
We know all the negatives. There's the shaky defense, the less than stellar bullpen, the surprising lack of power and the struggles with RISP. But there's been some good things, real good things happening. We take Jacob deGrom's magnificence for granted but he's been good, even for him. James McCann has been a great defensive [...]
The Mets picked up their second shutout in three games, as they blanked the Nationals, 4-0, Sunday afternoon at Citi Field to take the rubber game of the series. J.D. Davis gave the Mets the early lead with a two-run homer in the first inning. Davis singled and scored a run in the fourth. The [...]