Mets 3, Rockies 1 (5/25/21)

Jacob deGrom returned from the IL and got a no-decision, as the Mets beat the Rockies, 3-1, and tied their series at one game apiece Tuesday night at Citi Field. deGrom was given an early lead when the Mets scored in the bottom of the first but he gave it right back, allowing a solo [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Marlins 5, Mets 1 (5/23/21)

The Mets lost the rubber game of the series to the Marlins by a 5-1 score. If on April 1, someone told you that a team in the Mets' system used Jordan Yamamoto, Robert Gsellman and Yennsy Diaz in a game, your response would probably have been - how did Syracuse do? Alas, they were [...]

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 [...]