Wednesday catch-all thread (5/26/21)

Please use this thread to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. Francisco Lindor is batting .185 with a .565 OPS. Early in the month it looked like he was breaking out but in his last 12 games, he's slashing .152/.220/.261 in 50 PA. Lindor's not even drawing a lot of walks like he was [...]

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Mets Minors: Ronny Mauricio keeps top ranking, barely

This column will be a ranking of the organization's top prospects and contain interesting trends and developments to these rankings on the fourth week of each month, doubling your Mets360 minor league content. Thanks to MiLB.com and modern broadcast abilities we are now starting to be able to see a lot of these players on [...]

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Gut Reaction: Rockies 3, Mets 2 (5/24/21)

It’s the theme of the moment – Mets pitchers pitched well enough to win but the offense just didn’t do enough. This time, the Mets fell, 3-2, to the Rockies Monday night at Citi Field. In an effort to get more righties in the lineup, the Mets played James McCann at first base, despite McCann [...]

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A detailed look at umpires and missed ball/strike calls

Every game watched results in someone inevitably saying, “the umpire screwed us.” Most fans acknowledge that calls go both ways most of the time, but do they really believe that? Does it all even out over the long run? With Statcast tracking everything via radar, the precision with which umpires are being tracked has continuously [...]

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Mets take protecting SP to a new extreme with Joey Lucchesi removal

Back in the 1980s Bill James observed that throughout MLB history, catchers have been asked to do more and more while pitchers have been asked to do less and less. With catchers, improved protective equipment has made the position easier to play than it was in, say, 1902. And at the same time, those pitchers [...]

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Gut Reaction: Marlins 3, Mets 1 (5/22/21)

Garrett Cooper belted a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth, sending the Marlins to a 3-1 victory over the Mets Saturday afternoon in Miami. The Mets were lucky to have the game tied. The only run they scored was aided by a blown strike call. Richard Bleier certainly looked like he had Dominic [...]

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