Mets Minors: Organizational pitching depth looks weak

The Mets have the best pitcher in baseball, Jacob deGrom supported by Marcus Stroman and Taijuan Walker who are both looking like All Star caliber arms and the pitchers I’d rank as 2nd and 3rd best on the team, Carlose Carrasco and Noah Syndergaard haven’t pitched a single frame in the 2021 season. Outside of [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets win behind deGrom and split with Atlanta (6/21/21)

The Mets came within a foot of sweeping the Braves, dropping the nightcap 1-0 after winning the opener, 4-2, Monday at Citi Field. The Mets loaded the bases with one out in the seventh inning and Kevin Pillar hit a laser beam that Austin Riley was able to dive and catch, nearly turning a double [...]

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A week rehabbing with the Syracuse Mets

The Syracuse Mets are mired in one of the worst stretches for a team in minor league baseball. They have lost 12 consecutive games and 15 of their last 17, four of those on walk-offs. Syracuse is 11-30 and wakes up Monday 18.0 games back in their division, the clunky-named Triple-A East Northeast. The team [...]

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Gut Reaction: Nationals 5, Mets 2 (6/20/21)

Kyle Schwarber clubbed three home runs to lead the Nationals to a 5-2 win over the Mets Sunday afternoon in Washington. Taijuan Walker didn’t have his best stuff and the first three hitters for the Nats all hit rockets. Schwarber led off with a homer, the next batter hit one two steps deep on the [...]

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Looking objectively at Jacob deGrom, Francisco Lindor, Robert Gsellman, Sean Reid-Foley and others

Jacob deGrom has left early in both of his last two starts, leading the armchair doctors to speculate that it’s all because of the effort/velocity which he throws his pitches. Never mind that deGrom himself has said that swinging the bat is what has caused him the most trouble. Never mind that that neither one [...]

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Mets win the opener and split with the Nationals (6/19/21)

Francisco Lindor homered twice and drove in all five runs, leading the Mets to a 5-1 win in the opener of the doubleheader with the Nationals and ultimately a split of the twinbill Saturday night in Washington. Lindor gave the Mets the early lead when he hit a two-run homer in the top of the [...]

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Mets value buys pacing the way this season

Everyone loves a good bargain. It doesn’t matter whether or not you’re shopping as an individual or as a team in Major League Baseball. In the past, especially in the post Bernie Madoff years, the New York Mets were known throughout the league as a team that consistently shopped down the bargain aisle. And whenever [...]

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Gut Reaction: Nationals 1, Mets 0 (6/18/21)

You’ve got to score to win and for the second straight night the Mets were shut out, losing this time, 1-0 to the Nationals Friday night in Washington in the opener of a four-game series. Luis Rojas made his second mid-inning pitching change of the game, bringing on Seth Lugo in the eighth inning. Lugo [...]

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