Well, he’s still out there. Following a down 2021 season in which afterwards he was expected to command a big-time salary, Michael Conforto still remains a free agent entering the 2022 season. With Freddie Freeman, Kris Bryant, and Kyle Schwarber off of the market, Conforto is one of the best names still available in free [...]
The 2015 Mets, the last team in franchise history to make the World Series, had 14 homegrown players on the Opening Day roster. This year’s Mets will have fewer than 10 homegrown players when the season gets underway, despite there being an extra roster position this time around. Nowhere is that discrepancy more noticeable than [...]
The beauty of the projection series is that there’s no order they have to be done in. However, generally all of these years it’s followed the pattern of alternating pitchers and hitters. Previously, four starting pitchers were done for the Mets. Fortuitously, the Mets just went out and traded for the final starting pitcher of [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. Those of you who follow the NBA know that New York City has an ordinance which has kept Kyrie Irving from appearing in home games for the Nets this year since he chooses not to get the vaccine. This was probably a [...]
In broad strokes, one of the riskiest gambles you can make in the MLB Draft is to take a high school pitcher in the first round. It’s a high-risk, high-reward proposition. More college pitchers go in the top half of the first round than high school pitchers in a normal year. Draft experts – which [...]
The Mets just made a significant move leading up to Spring Training and the 2022 season. They acquired Chris Bassit for J.T. Ginn, their #5 prospect and top rated pitching prospect as well as Adam Oller (ranked 24th overall by Mets360.com). Bassit immediately steps into the rotation with Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, Carlos Carrasco and [...]
Spring Training camps open today. I expected to write that a month ago, but whaddayagonnado? The principal players in the bad production called “The Odious Baseball Lockout of 2022” provided the drama and suspense needed for good theatre, but the audience certainly suffered for it. At least there was a happy -- if unsatisfying for [...]
The Mets acquired All-Star pitcher Chris Bassitt from the A's Saturday night, sending J.T. Ginn and Adam Oller to the A's to complete the deal. Bassitt finished eighth in the CY Award ballotting in 2020 and made the All-Star team last year, a season which he ended up going 12-4 with a 3.15 ERA and [...]
Once the lockout was lifted, one of the first free agents signed was Carlos Rodon, who inked a 2/$44 deal with the Giants, with an opt-out clause after the first season. Rodon was my preferred pitcher for the Mets to add. There's no denying Rodon's injury history. But with guys like Tylor Megill and David [...]
The Athletic’s Evan Drellich wrote an article which the headline writer titled: How MLB players won, and why it also feels like they could have won more. Drellich points out how in the 26 years since the last labor dispute that cause MLB games to be missed, that owners in all of the major U.S. [...]
One of the hardest things to do is to accurately rate your own players. When you watch a guy on a daily basis, you develop both favorites and non-favorites. All of us who watched Pete Alonso explode on the scene in 2019 would put him in the former category. How can you not like Alonso? [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. The players and owners had another marathon bargaining session that lasted into Wednesday morning and more progress was made. The owners upped their CBT proposal to $230 million, with increases to $242 million by the end of the five-year deal. However, that [...]