Mets Minors: Draft preview and predictions

The MLB Draft is less than a month away and it’s time for me to highlight some of the players that the Mets might be looking at with their assorted picks. As with previous years I am going to provide the player ranked at the pick, a player the Mets may hope falls to them [...]

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Harrison Bader is clutch, and an unrelated Tomas Nido prediction

Off-season acquisition Harrison Bader has worked his way into the starting lineup, and he is getting the job done. Bader had a reputation as a good fielder with speed, but not much power. He was known as a good hitter against lefties. So far he has held up well defensively, he is credited with a [...]

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How do you solve a problem like Jeff McNeil?

First - kudos to David Stearns for putting Mark Vientos in the lineup and giving Brett Baty reps at second base in the minors.  Ronny Mauricio’s injury has come up as one of the major hindrances to the New York Mets season, as he was the plan to step in at second base. These are [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 5, Cubs 2 (6/23/24)

The Mets are so hot that even having Edwin Diaz ejected in the ninth inning before throwing a pitch and having his replacement have to leave at least in part due to an injury couldn’t keep the Mets from a 5-2 win over the Cubs Sunday night in Chicago. The victory gives the team the [...]

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Why do the Mets favor Tylor Megill over Jose Butto?

Who’s the worst starting pitcher in Mets history? Your answer likely depends on when you started watching, although there’s no doubt that a name jumps into your mind. Let’s make it so that the pitcher has to have thrown at least 250 innings for the Mets as a starter, to eliminate the James Baldwin-types. In [...]

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Gut Reaction: Cubs 8, Mets 1 (6/22/24)

One day after playing a terrific game with the offense and pitching clicking, the Mets figured they’d see how the other half lives. The pitching was lousy, the hitting was sporadic, at best, and the result was an 8-1 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field Saturday afternoon. Tylor Megill made the case for a [...]

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