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It’s impossible to draw any conclusions from one game. But coming into the season, it seemed like the Nationals replaced the Marlins as the team you need to beat up on in order to be successful in the NL East. And Opening Day did nothing to refute that idea. It’s Juan Soto and a bunch [...]
Tylor Megill did his best Jacob deGrom imitation, hurling five shutout innings to get the Mets back on track with their amazing Opening Day record, as the Mets downed the Nationals, 5-1, Thursday night in Washington D.C. Megill hit 99 mph with his fastball and didn’t seem fazed at all with the Opening Day start. [...]
Each year with the predictions column I start by going back to the previous year’s piece. The goal is to get more than 50 percent right, while not making boring predictions. Not once in all of the years of doing this have more turned out right than wrong. Out of last year’s batch, only four [...]
The Mets seemingly have three choices for their primary designated hitter – Robinson Cano, J.D. Davis and Dominic Smith. Originally, my thought was that Davis would get the majority of time at the new NL position. But news came out that Smith played through an injury last year and when we saw him in Spring [...]
Edwin Diaz is a pretty good closer. Unfortunately, the Mets paid a heavy trade price to get him and now his salary is no great bargain, either. The money is no real issue these days. But can Mets fans be content with Diaz if he’s somewhere around 5-10 among closers rather than the best in [...]
Please use this thread to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. In Sunday's top 50 prospects column, one of the players mentioned was Colin Holderman, a reliever with good stuff who's been dogged with injuries. Holderman got into Tuesday's blowout game against the Nationals and the Washington announcers almost immediately talked about how he was [...]
What do the Mets have in James McCann? He was a non-descript catcher with the Tigers for parts of five seasons, as he posted a .240/.288/.366 line in 1,658 PA. That’s an okay AVG, a poor OBP and a poor SLG. Then McCann goes to the White Sox and puts up an .808 OPS. He [...]
The mood among Mets fans today is more pessimistic than it was just a week ago, due to the news about Jacob deGrom being out for at least a month and Max Scherzer now questionable for Opening Day. It’s certainly right to be depressed about the news about the starting pitchers. Perhaps this is the [...]
We’re going to try something new this year with the top prospect list. There are still 50 names but instead of trying to put them in a ranked order, they will be grouped in levels and listed alphabetically. All prospect lists are a snapshot in time. Just because Player X is in one group in [...]
When the news broke about Jacob deGrom, Mets fans' inner Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe came out. “This stinks. This is total B.S.!” That inner demon that inhabits the back of our minds, insisting that our team will never win, that something will always happen, began to laugh maniacally. Many of us heaved a resigned sigh and [...]