At this point last season, Jason Vargas and Todd Frazier had become the latest laughingstocks in a long line of embarrassing misses in free agency for the New York Mets. Vargas had proved to be unreliable on the mound, and the once reliably healthy Frazier showed that even he was susceptible to injury once donning [...]
The first game against a tougher schedule did not turn out so hot for the Mets, as they dropped a 5-1 decision to the Rockies Friday night at Citi Field. After threatening previously to break up the successful Jacob deGrom-Tomas Nido combination, the Mets did it this game and the results were less than good. [...]
Brian is scheduled for the Gut Reaction
Note: The below post was written a few days ago before the Mets *ahem* stepped it up and took two straight games at home against an awful team. Mickey Callaway screwed up yet again, but it's not time to fire him. His premature pulling of Noah Syndergaard on Tuesday night led to another bullpen avalanche [...]
Last night, Jason Vargas defied the world in hurling a five hit, complete game shutout. Among fans, that led to some early daydreaming: if Vargas can do that, what will Zack Wheeler do tomorrow? Well, Wheeler did his part and the Mets' home run bats did the rest. Power and pitching were on full display [...]
Todd Frazier hit an unlikely two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to lift the Mets to a 7-3 win over the Giants Thursday afternoon at Citi Field. It was the third homer of the game for the Mets and it gave them their second rubber-game win in eight tries this season. With the [...]
Brian is scheduled for the Gut Reaction
Speaking from experience, fans love to play manager while watching games. The only thing they love more is to scream at the actual manager when he makes a contrary move. This happened Tuesday night when in Flushing skipper Mickey Callaway pulled Noah Syndergaard with two outs in the sixth inning while around the world fans [...]
Well Mickey Callaway looked like a genius in this one. Starting Jason Vargas was all that was needed to seal this victory and to even the series at one game apiece. Vargas pitched a gem going for the shutout, his first in a Met uniform, as he scattered five hits and a walk on 117 [...]
Brendan scheduled for the the Gut Reaction
The Mets have now selected 63 first-round picks in their illustrious drafting history. Sometimes these selections yield a franchise guy like David Wright or Michael Conforto, sometimes they are less fortuitous and yield a Lastings Milledge or Reese Havens and sometimes we get the baseball player version of a ‘shruggy’ emoji, Matt Harvey and Ike [...]