Timing is everything. David Cone should be remembered as one of the best Mets pitchers ever. But because he didn’t play on the 1986 team – along with an unfortunate issue or two during his Mets tenure – he’s rarely among the first pitchers fans tick off when listing the team’s greats. The fact he [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. It appears the Mets are replacing Dominic Smith and Michael Conforto with Mark Canha and Starling Marte. Here's that quartet's production in fWAR for 2021: Smith - (-0.5) Conforto - 0.8 Canha - 2.6 Marte - 5.5 Few expect Marte to repeat [...]
Two years ago, MLB instituted a new rule where a relief pitcher had to face a minimum of three batters, or finish an inning. It was presented as an idea to speed up the game, with the hope of cutting down on mid-inning pitching changes. Unintended consequence or not, it severely cut down on LOOGY [...]
About the only thing that Brodie Van Wagenen did right and that paid off in spades was bringing up Pete Alonso to The Show for the 2019 season in what might have been considered an “early” move that would start expending Alonso’s controllable time window. Since that decision, Pete went on to win the Rookie [...]
Losing Aaron Loup to free agency leaves a big hole in the bullpen. Many will focus primarily on which hand he pitches with but the real issue is that he was dominating. In 125 PA when he did not have the platoon advantage, Loup limited opponents to a .211/.290/.257 line last year. And he had [...]
When one tells the tales of the greatest Mets teams of all time, one of the terms that is consistently a part of those storylines is resilience. The 1969 Mets overcoming a 10 game deficit in the standings on August 14th to win the division and then beat one of the greatest teams of that [...]
