Everyone loves a list, regardless if it’s a “best of,” or “worst of,” or “top ten.” Recently, The Athletic’s Marc Carig came up on Twitter with his best MLB lineup of all time and seemingly everyone followed suit. Now, Carig is far from the first one to ever do it. But he did it at [...]
The Narrative: This one is half-based on the famous 1973 World Series photograph of Willie Mays and half-based on my experience at a Shea Stadium Camera Day. It sort of ties in what a kid or a fan feels during a game, what a player feels at the end of a season or a career, [...]
One of the weaknesses of advanced defensive systems was how they handled things when a team was playing a shift. This wasn't too big of a problem earlier in the decade but as more and more teams embraced shifting on a wider basis, it was something that needed to be addressed. Defensive Runs Saved has [...]
Rick Porcello made 32 starts in 2019, the eighth time in his 11-year MLB career that he topped the 30-start plateau. He’s never had fewer than 27 starts in a season, a pretty remarkable run of health and durability. In his 2,037.1 lifetime IP in the majors, Porcello has amassed a 99 ERA+. Put it [...]
You would be hard-pressed to find a Mets fan who has never criticized the Wilpon Family for one thing or another in their tenure as primary owners of the ball club. Just a few weeks ago they attracted a ton of negative publicity for the new MLB clubhouse at Clover Field, which they won’t allow [...]
We’re not there yet but the Mets are going to have to make some decisions about a positional logjam in the next one-to-three years. It was a point of emphasis by Sandy Alderson to acquire as much high-end shortstop talent as he could, especially in the international free agent market. And now those shortstops are [...]
On March 12th, 2020, a thing happened that no one anticipated or had seen in our lifetimes. The major league baseball season was delayed for something that had nothing to do with the game itself. COVID-19, the strain of Coronavirus that is currently causing innumerable changes to the United States, took down, from the outside, [...]
If you’ve been reading the site for any amount of time, no doubt you’ve seen me mention my fantasy team. Yeah, yeah – I know – no one wants to hear about your fantasy team. But with the season being delayed, my belief is that you would rather hear about my team than my views [...]
Last year when Brandon Nimmo missed over half of the season – and played for a month when he really shouldn’t have – the Mets struggled tremendously filling the center field position with anyone who could hit at an acceptable MLB level. MLB GMs are like generals – always fighting the last war. The Mets [...]
So much has been made about how the six players vying for the starting rotation are faring that we lose sight that most of the bullpen is doing well, too. One of the starting pitchers will be in the pen and bring his good numbers along, too. Here's how the expected relievers, with two notable [...]
Opening day for the Mets’ 2020 season is drawing closer. It is scheduled for March 26 at Citi Field when the Mets will faceoff with the defending WS champs the Washington Nats. It is likely the Nats will start right-handed ace Max Scherzer. Let's see what the Mets’ batting order might look like for the [...]
If anyone listens in when I join Brian on the Mets360 podcast you are aware that there is a history on the player Patrick Mazeika. When the Mets drafted the “hitting” catcher in the 8th round of the 2015 draft and assigned him to Kingsport you would rightly assume he was just a depth piece [...]