It’s been a while since Jacob deGrom has been the second pitcher tackled in the projection series. That doesn’t mean that deGrom is necessarily the second-best pitcher on the staff. It would be wrong to think that if deGrom made 30 starts that any pitcher would provide more value than he would. Of course, after [...]
It's no secret that the Mets are ready and willing to move J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil and Dominic Smith. That sentence would have been nearly unimaginable this time last year. Sure, they might have been willing to deal Davis but not the other two. But then 2021 happened. Is the team's willingness to deal guys [...]
Just as we were enjoying one of the most exciting Mets off-seasons in years, the MLB lockout shut off the gas on the hot stove. Have you ever been really into a movie and the cable or the power goes out? Now we have awkward, speculative conversations while we sit and wait...and wait. While team [...]
Wednesday night, the Knicks played a nationally televised game against the Heat. They got blown out, in large part because of the coach’s stubborn insistence to play starters more minutes than they deserve. But what was interesting to me about the game was the commentary from Jeff Van Gundy. If you’re a Knicks fan, you [...]
The second-biggest free agent signing to date by the Mets has been nabbing Starling Marte on a four-year deal. Marte has been rumored to the Mets before but it’s difficult to know if that was just newspaper/fan speculation or if there was legitimate interest from the club. Back in 2020, the last time the Mets [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. Since the last open thread, the Mets have finalized their coaching staff. At the GM meetings, Sandy Alderson opined that it was going to be tougher to fill out a coaching staff than it was to get either a manager or GM. [...]
Baseball America’s Top 100: Baseball America, as would be expected, ranked the top three Mets prospects amongst their Top 100 once again. Francisco Alvarez comes in as the 13th best overall prospect with Brett Baty coming in at 39th and Ronny Mauricio falling all the way back to 92nd in the standings. Baseball Prospectus likes [...]
I grew up in rural North Carolina, played Little League and collected baseball cards. My dad and I would watch weekend baseball games and during the summer we would watch Monday Night Baseball with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek. My dad was a Yankees fan, as were so many North Carolina mill town kids that [...]
Recently, TexasGus made the following statement in an Open Thread: The Mets got alot of intriguing arms last year, maybe more than ever in one draft. It’s going to be awhile before any of us are completely over the loss of Kumar Rocker. But today, the focus isn’t going to be on Rocker, or any [...]
Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer at the top of the Mets’ rotation seems too good to be true, even if we consider the health concerns of the former and the...advanced baseball age of the latter. There are multiple question marks beyond their two aces, however, and perhaps none are quite as bewildering as Taijuan Walker. [...]
Earlier this week, Baseball America released its annual Top 100 prospects list, and the New York Mets had three players appear in the rankings. Mets top prospect catcher Francisco Alvarez (No. 13), third baseman Brett Baty (No. 39) and shortstop Ronny Mauricio (No. 92) all appeared in the rankings. The consensus has been for a [...]
I really dig the 1990s Topps Finest offerings but it would have been illuminating to have been in the meetings that led to the creation of the 1996 Finest set. Topps - Okay, we’re going to have 359 cards and we’re going to release them in two series. The first one’s going to have 191 [...]