Biography: Currently ranked the number one prospect in the Mets organization and the number one prospect in baseball by a number of scouting organizations, Francisco Alvarez is on the very cusp of his major league career. The Mets brought him up to play in a small handful of games at the end of the season [...]
In an elimination game, the Mets were one-hit by Joe Musgrove (and two relievers) and they fell to the Padres, 6-0. Yes, the same Musgrove they knocked out in the sixth inning back in the regular season. The Mets were so incredulous that this pitcher was dominating them that Buck Showalter had the umpires conduct [...]
With a bad loss on Friday night, Charlie had to write the doom and gloom piece on Saturday. But with Saturday’s big win, it’s my fortune to write about how the sun is shining. It’s like on “The Great British Baking Show,” where I get to be Noel Fielding and announce who wins Star Baker. [...]
The Mets, with their backs to the wall, facing a wild-card elimination game against the Padres, sent ace Jacob deGrom to the mound. We didn’t see the vintage deGrom of his 2018-2019 Cy Young Award winning seasons, but neither did we see the deGrom of the last two weeks, fortunately. The Mets bats woke up, [...]
Baseball fans – and particularly Mets fans, I think – are a lot like dogs: if something happens once, it happens all the time, every time. It becomes instant tradition. It seems that’s how the Baseball Gods want it. We Mets fans used to listen to Ralph Kiner on the broadcasts and he would bluntly [...]
This morning’s article talked about the Mets getting a vintage performance from Max Scherezer. And that simply didn’t happen. Scherzer gave up 4 HR and 7 ER in 4.2 IP, putting the Mets in a hole they could not climb out of, as they fell to the Padres, 7-1 Friday night in the first game [...]
The Mets outscored the Padres this year, 772-705. The Mets had the better bullpen, with a 3.55 ERA compared to a 3.83 mark for the Padres. In FanGraphs’ Defensive Runs Above Average (DEF), the Mets led the Padres, 5.9-3.6. But with all of those advantages, the way the Mets beat the Padres is for Max [...]
What a ride 2022 has been for the Mets! They replaced an ineffectual manager with Buck Showalter, signed a bunch of impact free agents, traded for a starting pitcher who won 15 games and picked up a hitter at the trade deadline who posted a 139 OPS+. But it wasn’t all sunshine and lollipops. Their [...]
The Mets scored three runs in each of the first three innings and coasted to a 9-2 win over the Nationals in the final game of the regular season Wednesday night. The victory gave the Mets 101 wins, the second-best mark in franchise history. And it left them tied with the Braves for the top [...]