Spring training is upon us, and barring any last minute additions, the Mets 26 player roster is starting to take shape. Once again, we approach the upcoming season with high hopes and low expectations. No one would have predicted a 101 win season back in 2022 but the Mets got there on the backs of [...]
New York Mets outfielder Starling Marte was one of the most disappointing players in 2023. After a great 2022 season where he batted .292 with 16 home runs and 63 RBIs, Marte slipped to .248 with 5 home runs and 28 RBIs in 2023. Injuries were a big factor in Marte’s 2023 regression. After playing [...]
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The New York Mets' bullpen struggled all year in 2023. They posted a 4.45 ERA overall, which ranked 22nd in the major league last season. Not having their dominant closer Edwin Diaz for the entire 2023 season put a dent in the bullpen and it seemed to affect every other Mets reliever performance. In 2024, [...]
Brian published his Top 50 and we’ve seen several other sites add theirs so I wanted to add my own to the mix. I created my own Top 50 several weeks ago and thanks to Brian and other baseball pundits have revised my list with a number of players I had missed. This list will [...]
Forget the commercials, I just want to see a ton of Taylor closeups!
In 1987, Nolan Ryan won two legs of the pitchers’ triple crown, as he led the NL in both ERA (2.76) and strikeouts (270) – which helped him to a 6.4 fWAR, the top mark in the league. Yet, Ryan posted a W-L record of 8-16, which seems unfathomable. But it’s just one of many [...]
It’s never fun to lose. But sometimes you can leave a loss with your head held high, knowing you executed the game plan and played close to the best of your ability. And this was one of those types of games for the Pack. They went on the road to play a team ranked 35th [...]
You may have heard about a football game coming up tomorrow, some minor affair involving teams from Kansas City and San Francisco. Besides the promised sideshow of the current hottest pop star on the planet cheering on her boyfriend and the attendant political theatre that has come along with it, this other-sport replay of the [...]
Over at FanGraphs, they published the median projected standings right now in the National League, according to the ZiPS projections. Now, this comes with the caveat that there are some big free agents still out there – no, the Mets are not going to sign one of those – that could shift things around. But [...]
For the second time in three years, Jeff McNeil turned in a disappointing season in 2023. He posted a .108 ISO last year, compared to a .109 mark in 2001. And McNeil’s BABIP was .288 a season ago, compared to .280 in ’21. Lifetime, McNeil has a .140 ISO and a .321 BABIP, numbers that [...]
I check SNY every day, sometimes more than once. And when you’re a frequent visitor to a site, it’s hard not to notice certain things. With newspapers, it’s common for people on the copy desk to write headlines. My guess is that it works the same way at SNY, at least with their “insiders.” Somehow [...]