Gut Reaction: Mets 4, Padres 0 (7/25/19)

Jacob deGrom continued his daylight mastery, with seven shutout innings Thursday afternoon, pitching the Mets to a 4-0 victory over the Padres and a win in the rubber game of the series. The Mets are now 7-5 since the All-Star break. The Mets scored four runs in the first inning, aided by a couple of [...]

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Robinson Cano’s recent power rise shouldn’t be a surprise

On Tuesday Night Robinson Cano was the center of attention as he delivered three home runs which accounted for all of the Mets’ scoring in their 5-2 win over the Padres. With the Mets making a nasty habit of losing games late into them, it was refreshing to see them not blow this one away [...]

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Yasmani Grandal and the Mets who never were

Sometimes the best deals are the ones that never were, and sometimes teams are left kicking themselves for not shelling out extra to close a deal. The 2018-2019 offseason was an incredible failure of potentially gigantic proportions, however the front office will now be judged on how they handle the pending trade deadline and offseason. [...]

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Chili Davis is having an impact

One of the first moves the new Mets front office made in their first season was to release batting coach Pat Roessler and replace him with newly fired Cubs’ batting coach Chilli Davis. So far it’s fair to say that’s one offseason move that is working out. Roessler had been with the Mets since 2015, [...]

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Mets Minors: What to expect of Thomas Szapucki

Through the tail end of 2016 Thomas Szapucki was the darling of Mets360.  Writers here were over the moon with his dominant numbers in Kingsport and Brooklyn and the scouts all agreed that his “stuff” had gotten significantly better.  2017 saw injury and despite working through a rehab regimen to avoid Tommy John surgery, we [...]

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Gut Reaction: Giants 3, Mets 2 (12 INN) 7/21/19

For the third time in four games, the Mets and Giants played extra innings and for the third time, the Giants came out on top, this time by a 3-2 score Sunday in San Francisco. Mike Yazstrzemski delivered a walk-off homer to left field in the bottom of the 12th to send the Mets to [...]

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