The 2022 season is really humming along, isn’t it? The Mets are 21 games over .500, in first place in the NL East and, according to Fangraphs, have a 98.9% chance to make the playoffs. Baseball-Reference.com is less sanguine, putting their odds at 98.4%. As has been exhaustively chronicled, the Mets faced down their daunting [...]
Tomas Nido, who picked off a runner in the top of the 10th inning, tied the game in the bottom of the 10th with a two-out double and he scored the game-winning run when the pitcher threw errantly to first base on what should have been the final out of the inning, lifting the Mets [...]
Didn’t expect to have to publish today so here are some random thoughts about the Mets now that we’ve passed the halfway point of the season. At the beginning of the year, Buck Showalter got a lot of praise for keeping everyone involved. That was a good move on his part. But what’s the flip [...]
It was another glimpse at the 2021 offense for the Mets, as they hit two solo homers but went 0-7 with RISP en route to a 5-2 loss to the Marlins Friday night at Citi Field. Chris Bassitt pitched well in his return from the Covid IL, going 6.1 IP nd allowing just 2 ER. [...]
Starling Marte has been on a tear the last 11 games. In that span, he’s slashed .409/.469/.636 in 49 PA. It’s been enough to raise his season-long OPS 53 points. He’s now tied with Brandon Nimmo for the team lead in bWAR, with a 2.7 mark. While fWAR (1.8) isn’t nearly as bullish, it still [...]
The unheralded players came thru for the Mets on Thursday. Trevor Williams pitched seven shutout innings while James McCann and J.D. Davis both delivered homers with men on base, leading the Mets to a 10-0 win over the Marlins in the opener of a four-game series. Williams gave up just two hits and did not [...]
You hear people say all the time that the Mets need to trade for a reliever. While virtually every team could use another quality arm in the pen, it seems to me that the idea that it’s a key need for the Mets seems … backwards. Just who would the Mets cut if they picked [...]
Brandon Nimmo singled and scored the tying run in the ninth inning and he delivered a three-run homer to ice the game in the 10th, leading the Mets to an 8-3 win over the Reds and another series win. Nimmo lined a single to left field with one out in the ninth inning. Then the [...]