What’s the one thing in sports that you can’t believe still happens in 2022? The answer to that question for me is easy – How does the NFL still measure a first down with two officials carrying sticks and a chain onto the field? If anything was meant for a laser in pro sports, you’d [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. MLB announced that there would be 28-man rosters for the month of April. The Mets have several different ways they could use these two extra spots, besides the default of just adding extra relievers. They could: Carry a third catcher given the [...]
It wasn’t a good year for Jeff McNeil in 2021, as he had easily his worst year in the majors from a production standpoint. And if that wasn’t bad enough, he got into a mid-game confrontation with double play partner Francisco Lindor. After the season, we found out that Lindor was frustrated with McNeil’s refusal [...]
In a day in age where a Major League manager’s most important job is managing clubhouse personalities, one of the biggest challenges that new Mets manager Buck Showalter faces in his inaugural season as the team’s skipper is navigating the Robinson Cano playing time situation. At 39 years old and having missed the entire 2021 [...]
From my office chair, the Mets needed to install Jeff McNeil as their second baseman without going thru any dog and pony show about how a hot Spring Training from Robinson Cano could result in some type of time share at the position. New manager Buck Showalter agreed and indicated that McNeil would get the [...]
Well, he’s still out there. Following a down 2021 season in which afterwards he was expected to command a big-time salary, Michael Conforto still remains a free agent entering the 2022 season. With Freddie Freeman, Kris Bryant, and Kyle Schwarber off of the market, Conforto is one of the best names still available in free [...]
The 2015 Mets, the last team in franchise history to make the World Series, had 14 homegrown players on the Opening Day roster. This year’s Mets will have fewer than 10 homegrown players when the season gets underway, despite there being an extra roster position this time around. Nowhere is that discrepancy more noticeable than [...]
The beauty of the projection series is that there’s no order they have to be done in. However, generally all of these years it’s followed the pattern of alternating pitchers and hitters. Previously, four starting pitchers were done for the Mets. Fortuitously, the Mets just went out and traded for the final starting pitcher of [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. Those of you who follow the NBA know that New York City has an ordinance which has kept Kyrie Irving from appearing in home games for the Nets this year since he chooses not to get the vaccine. This was probably a [...]
In broad strokes, one of the riskiest gambles you can make in the MLB Draft is to take a high school pitcher in the first round. It’s a high-risk, high-reward proposition. More college pitchers go in the top half of the first round than high school pitchers in a normal year. Draft experts – which [...]
The Mets just made a significant move leading up to Spring Training and the 2022 season. They acquired Chris Bassit for J.T. Ginn, their #5 prospect and top rated pitching prospect as well as Adam Oller (ranked 24th overall by Mets360.com). Bassit immediately steps into the rotation with Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, Carlos Carrasco and [...]
Spring Training camps open today. I expected to write that a month ago, but whaddayagonnado? The principal players in the bad production called “The Odious Baseball Lockout of 2022” provided the drama and suspense needed for good theatre, but the audience certainly suffered for it. At least there was a happy -- if unsatisfying for [...]