Starling Marte showed no dropoff in the batter’s box in his first season with the Mets in 2022. After posting a 132 OPS+ in 2021, he recorded a 132 for the Mets last season. But his stolen base numbers fell off considerably, which we learned was in part playing thru groin injuries. And he went [...]
It’s been my opinion that the Mets made a big mistake by having their final three bullpen spots be (essentially) a competition among relievers with options remaining. My preference would have been to have more stability among the back end of the pen with pitchers who have successfully performed in the majors. But that ship [...]
With the age of the expected starting five for the Mets, there was little doubt that David Peterson was going to get a few starts in 2023. We hoped that before the regular season started that he wasn’t going to be pressed into duty right away. Alas, the injury to newly signed Jose Quintana, which [...]
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At this point on the calendar, the Mets spring training record sits at 9-12 with six games left to play before opening day in Miami on March 30. While we always hope for a strong spring we usually end up, in a good year, close to .500. It would be nice to start off with [...]
Throughout Spring Training there has been much attention paid to the new playing rules implemented for the 2023 season by Major League Baseball. While the pitch clock, larger bases and banning the shift have been the alterations that have garnered the most attention, there is one that has flown somewhat more under the radar – [...]
At the Winter Meetings in 2012, then-GM Sandy Alderson was asked if the Mets’ top priority was adding to an outfield that consisted of Lucas Duda, Kirk Nieuwenhuis and not much else. Alderson decided to respond with a joke, which didn’t exactly succeed the way it might have inside his head. He said, “Outfield, what [...]
Now that it seems like the shock of losing Edwin Diaz for the 2023 season has settled, it is time to accept and move on. The fact is that despite losing Diaz, the Mets still have a roster strong enough to have excitement heading into the season. In spring training, the young talent consisting of [...]
It was a conscious decision not to write about Edwin Diaz on Thursday. The announcement that his injury was season-ending was horrible and everyone needed some time to process the news in their own way. Some will curse the WBC, a few will mourn the Mets’ luck, while others will declare that the World Series [...]
While waiting to hear how bad the Edwin Diaz news is, what better time to look at the most positive player on the Mets in Brandon Nimmo. The seemingly annual question of how many games Nimmo can play was answered last year with a career-high 151 games. He missed some time while on the Covid [...]
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Branch Rickey was undoubtedly the greatest and most important baseball executive of all time. He turned two teams into perennial powerhouses, he invented the farm system, was a peerless judge of talent and, oh yeah, he managed to integrate MLB despite the unanimous opposition of the other owners. Rickey was once asked his thoughts on [...]