In the immortal words of the Talking Heads in their seminal song “Once in a Lifetime”, David Byrne observed his large automobile, his beautiful house and his beautiful wife and asked, “How did I get here?” Looking at the Mets’ two-thirds of the way through the baseball season, another part of the lyric shouts out [...]
My wife and I spent the weekend in upstate New York and took a trip into Cooperstown to take a turn around the museum. I’ve written for Mets360 for years and cover the minor league systems of the Mets. I am also an avid baseball fan and have been since the Mike Piazza era of [...]
It was a matchup of two starting pitchers without either great results or great stuff. And the game lived up exactly to its billing, as both pitchers seemed more interested in racking up big pitch counts early than putting hitters away. And in this game of death by a 1,000 cuts, the Mets came out [...]
Brian Yesterday at 4:11 pm Lindor starts us off with a walk Metsense Yesterday at 4:12 pm They should win today Because the Because the picture stinkspictur stinks Brian Yesterday at 4:13 pm what do you have against the picture? Metsense Yesterday at 4:14 pm The Pitcher Is terrible Hi Brian Brian Yesterday at 4:15 [...]
We’re so used to the Mets’ bullpen needing to add quality relievers that we’re not really prepared for what happens in the next week to 10 days, where the Mets will have to decide how to handle adding three relievers coming off the IL to a group that’s been more good than bad the past [...]
Huascar Brazoban gave up a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Mets fell to the Angels, 5-4, Saturday night in Anaheim. The Mets had just taken a 4-2 lead, thanks to a grand slam by J.D. Martinez in the top of the seventh. Carlos Mendoza opted to go to his pen, removing David [...]
Brian Yesterday at 9:39 pm Let's score first! Wow what a leaping grab by Pillar to rob Lindor JD with a dink and Pete with a walk and we have a two-out rally for Winker K to end the inning Brian Yesterday at 9:55 pm And Pillar drives in a run to put the Angels [...]
Most teams and managers give lip service to playing their entire roster. And every team does that with their pitchers but how many do with their hitters? Friday night, all 30 teams played and eight teams did not make a hitting or defensive change to their starters. Assuming that’s a normal day this time of [...]
It was a successful Mets debut for Paul Blackburn, who put a bunch of runners on base but came out mostly unscathed. The Mets had a bunch of hits and wound up with a 5-1 win over the Angels to start out their 10-game road trip Friday night in Anaheim. Blackburn gave up six hits, [...]
ChrisF Yesterday at 9:21 pm Test Brian Yesterday at 9:34 pm Hey Chris - I see you ChrisF Yesterday at 9:34 pm Evening Brian hope all well your way Brian Yesterday at 9:34 pm Where are you these days? I'm ok - just staring down my youngest getting ready to leave for college ChrisF Yesterday [...]
People love lists, especially ranked lists. And it’s easy to understand why, as these lists help bring order to things. But some things lend themselves quite well to lists – like, say, who has the most home runs or strikeouts. And some things simply don’t. It’s my opinion that top prospect lists are like that. [...]
Here are two players for your consideration: Player A: 310 PA, 103 OPS+ 1.3 rWAR, 1.5 fWAR, $10.5 million Player B: 233 PA, 96 OPS+, 1.5 rWAR, 0.6 fWAR, $2.025 million They’re pretty similar. Perhaps you’d prefer Player A due to his fWAR advantage, at least until you looked as their respective salaries. The players [...]