Tylor Megill did his best Jacob deGrom imitation, hurling five shutout innings to get the Mets back on track with their amazing Opening Day record, as the Mets downed the Nationals, 5-1, Thursday night in Washington D.C. Megill hit 99 mph with his fastball and didn’t seem fazed at all with the Opening Day start. [...]
Each year with the predictions column I start by going back to the previous year’s piece. The goal is to get more than 50 percent right, while not making boring predictions. Not once in all of the years of doing this have more turned out right than wrong. Out of last year’s batch, only four [...]
The Mets seemingly have three choices for their primary designated hitter – Robinson Cano, J.D. Davis and Dominic Smith. Originally, my thought was that Davis would get the majority of time at the new NL position. But news came out that Smith played through an injury last year and when we saw him in Spring [...]