Living and (mostly) dying with the Baby Mets

We all know that the bullpen is horrific and Buck Showalter’s unwillingness to push his starting pitchers to give more only slightly better. But as Woodrow says over and over again, the offense leaves an awful lot to be desired, too. In the last 14 games, the Mets have scored 49 runs, an average of [...]

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Gut Reaction: Twins 5, Mets 2 (9/8/23)

It was an even game until the bullpen got involved. But Sean Reid-Foley and Grant Hartwig combined to give up three runs in the seventh inning and the end result was a 5-2 loss to the Twins in the opener of a three-game set in Minnesota Friday night. Kodai Senga started for the Mets and [...]

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Digging into Mark Vientos’ performance since returning from wrist tendinitis

In the seven games since his recall from the minors after a one-game rehab, Mark Vientos sports a .318/.423/.682 line, thanks in part to a triple and two homers among his seven hits. The other part is that he’s required a .417 BABIP to produce that .318 AVG. But besides being lucky with his hits [...]

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The Mets should not bring Edwin Diaz back this season

The New York Mets clearly have had a disappointing 2023 season, playing well below their high expectations. One of the biggest factors to that, has been the injury to their closer Edwin Diaz, which happened during the World Baseball Classic back in March right before the regular season started. It clearly has affected the bullpen, [...]

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Gut Reaction: Nationals 3, Mets 2 (9/6/23)

It’s tough to manage a bullpen. It’s even tougher when your bullpen, you know, stinks. It seems like one way to combat that would be to avoid going to your pen if humanly possible. However, that’s not the way that Buck Showalter manages. Jose Butto was really good thru six innings but ran into some [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 11, Nationals 5 (9/5/23)

Francisco Alvarez hit a 3-run homer in the first inning, one of five homers on the night, to back strong pitching from Jose Quintana to lead the Mets to an 11-5 win over the Nationals in a game that wasn’t that close. The Mets have now won four of their last five games and hold [...]

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What does David Peterson have to do down the stretch for the Mets to consider him for the 2024 rotation?

It’s tough to make sense of David Peterson’s year here in 2023. Penciled in to be a depth starter before the season started, Peterson was pressed into duty right away due to the injuries suffered by Jose Quintana and Justin Verlander. And, quite simply, he was awful. Peterson made eight starts before he was sent [...]

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