The Mets' 2023 season is something that many fans wish they could put in their rear-view mirrors. It was a painful season and the most expensive team in baseball history collapsed to a degree that could never have been anticipated. While everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong, the Mets used their owner’s [...]
Pete Alonso hit two home runs and Kodai Senga pitched six strong innings to lead the Mets to an 11-2 win over the Cubs Monday night at Citi Field. The win snapped a six-game losing streak for the Mets and it was their first victory since the trade deadline. Alonso got the Mets on the [...]
It’s always good to consider things from different angles because no one has a monopoly on truth. So, who better for me to have a discussion about the Mets trade deadline deals than Chris Flanders? Having the Mets be sellers was, in my opinion, a defensible decision, even if not the preferred path for me. [...]
Jose Quintana was very good. But it didn’t matter because he was done in by shaky fielding, an unspectacular pen and a non-existent offense. The end result was a 2-0 setback to the Orioles Sunday afternoon in Baltimore. The Mets have now lost six in a row since the trade deadline, showing almost no heart [...]
If you’ve watched the Mets play since the end of the trade deadline, you’ve seen a club go from bad to worse. It wasn’t too difficult to predict, that an under-performing veteran club would see whatever little wind was in its sails disappear completely. Yet while it was predictable, that doesn’t make it any easier [...]
The good news is there was a Jeff McNeil sighting. McNeil had two hits including just his fourth home run of the season and drove in all three runs for the Mets. Also, the Mets tallied seven hits after five and four the last two games, respectively. One of the hits was Brandon Nimmo’s one-out [...]
About 10 days ago, I wrote an entirely different column than what appears here. The previous version was a decently upbeat assessment of the Mets’ short-term future and a maybe too rosy look at the talent the team obtained by trading aging superstars. Then I watched the first two games of the Royals series – [...]
The Mets didn’t get David Peterson stretched out in the bullpen to prepare for his return to the starting rotation. So, he left after three scoreless innings. The option relievers continued to be less than good and the end result was a 10-3 loss to the Orioles Friday night in Baltimore. John Curtiss was the [...]
