On teams with a losing record this far into the season finishing with close to 90 wins

Earlier this season, ChrisF and I were discussing how we should look at the wins versus the Phillies. The crux of the issue was: Could we claim them as “good” wins as the Phillies were under .500 at the time the Mets played them? This discussion came to mind yesterday while reading this comment from [...]

The red-hot Pete Alonso, the struggling Chris Bassitt and the hits falling in for Tomas Nido

Pete Alonso has been on fire here recently. In his last 17 games he has a .349/.429/.762 line in 76 PA, with 8 HR and 24 RBIs in that span. It’s brought his season-long OPS+ to 160, which is tops on the club among the 15 hitters to have amassed at least 15 PA this [...]