After 74 games played here in 2023, the Mets are 34-40. If you hadn’t watched the games, you might think this was borderline impossible given the talent on the team. But the pitching has been abysmal, half the team isn’t hitting and the closest thing we see to passion is Jeff McNeil getting mad at [...]
In an ideal world, winning and development go hand in hand. We would love it if the Mets’ minor league system had a team like the 1983 Lynchburg Mets, who went 96-43 and had 15 future MLB players on the roster, including Lenny Dykstra and Dwight Gooden. But the reality is that development is so [...]
It’s officially finger-pointing season for the 2023 Mets. The pitching moves, while mostly defensible at the time, simply haven’t worked out in reality. Players need to look at themselves in the mirror. But so does the general manager for some of these moves. So, if we knew what we know now back in late October, [...]
“There’s no cure for bad pitching.” That’s what Gary Cohen said during the game. And given that the Mets had 10 hits, eight walks, eight runs and still lost, it’s kind of hard to argue with that. Tylor Megill turned back into a pumpkin and the Mets’ troubles continue to mount with a 10-8 loss [...]
Is the Mets minor league system broken? That’s hard to quantify. By the only metric that matters, which is players reaching the majors and having impacts, it is not. Brett Baty and Francisco Alvarez have both graduated the minors this year and are entrenched into the lineup for the major league team. Is the Mets [...]
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For the second year in a row, Framber Valdez handcuffed the Mets over eight innings and while the Mets put up some offense late, they fell to the Astros by a 4-2 score Tuesday night in Houston. Valdez was perfect thru 5.1 IP until Mark Canha ripped a clean single to right. But the next [...]
It was a tough week of poor pitching and a lack of timely hitting that has brought us to this turning point in the season. Max Scherzer disintegrated last Tuesday against the crosstown rivals, and what was worse was with TV blackouts, only the YES network, with Yankee broadcasters, played the game on TV. Justin [...]
Max Scherzer posted 8 IP, 1 ER, 1 BB and 8 Ks last night versus the Astros. This is the type of start most fans envisioned from him this year. Perhaps not quite this good but in this ballpark. And not only from Scherzer but Justin Verlander, too. And fans hoped that other pitchers would [...]
Max Scherzer bounced back from two bad outings with eight strong innings and the Mets batted around twice, leading to an 11-1 win over the Astros in the opener of a three-game series Monday night in Houston. The Mets had lost their last seven games versus their fellow expansion mates. Scherzer went more to his [...]