Yankees would make sense as Tommy Pham trade destination

The second half of the New York Mets’ season is now underway. There’s still no signal as to whether this team will add or subject at the soon-approaching deadline. On one hand, the starting pitching has slowly started to reel it in, despite another disappointing start from David Peterson and another big game absence from [...]

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The quiet resurgence of the Mets’ pitching over the last month

Between June 4th and June 9th, the Mets played five games, lost them all and allowed 46 runs. That brought the team’s year-long ERA to a 4.80 mark. In the 26 games since then, the Mets’ staff has a 3.38 ERA, which is a marked improvement. Additionally, that ERA came while facing predominantly winning teams, [...]

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The Mets can buck the five-man rotation both in the future and now

For whatever reasons, the Mets were dumped by two Triple-A affiliates in Norfolk and Buffalo. After those cities chose other teams, the Mets were left in the less-than-ideal position of having their top affiliate in the PCL, first in New Orleans and then in Las Vegas. And then the Mets did something really smart. They [...]

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Mets Minors: Colin Houck and drafting talent over need

When I wrote up my draft preview I listed only pitchers around all of the Mets top picks in the 2023 draft. The Mets farm system is no longer the breeding ground for Aces it was in years past and it seemed time for the Mets to focus their attention on rebuilding this aspect of [...]

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Mets 2023 midseason report card

It’s the All-Star break, which seems like as good a time as any to determine mid term grades for the Mets players and management. This is a subjective process, which will factor in not only performance but also how the individual is doing compared to expectations. We’ll list batter, pitcher, and management sections, each done [...]

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What are your complaints about the 2023 Mets?

Several years ago, Mets360 shut down for a bit because everyone was so amazingly depressing that reading the negative comments day after day after day was affecting my mental health. At the risk of opening up that can of worms again, please use today’s article to vent about anything and everything that’s disappointing you about [...]

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Gut Reaction: Padres 6, Mets 2 (7/9/23)

Well, if you didn’t particularly like the results from the Wild Card series last year, my hope is that you didn’t watch this game. The Mets continued to make Joe Musgrove look like a Hall of Famer while Max Scherzer continued to serve up gopher balls. The end result was a 6-2 loss in the [...]

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Francisco Alvarez shows us what all the fuss is about

It took a bit of convincing. The early evidence flew in the face of what we’d all heard. A lot of us – myself included, of course, or I wouldn’t mention it – fell into the trap of thinking that how it is in the moment is how it will be forever. Patience is a [...]

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