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The Mets have five terrific prospects and it would have been six if they hadn’t dealt Jarred Kelenic in the offseason. In addition to the loss of their 2018 first-round pick, the Mets also shipped out two other guys who would have been in the top 10 – Justin Dunn and Luis Santana – as [...]
Baseball free agency is a slow moving, ugly dance. Arbitration hearings show the ugliest side, although they are advertised as a civilized meeting to get to a contract agreement. In reality, they prove often to be “justified” character attacks on players by teams who often don’t want to budge on their contract offers. This moves [...]
For teams in deep rebuild like the Marlins and half the American League it's easy to just point to the lack of talent as the reason why they can't finish over .500 and compete for the playoffs. For the rest of MLB, talent can win some games, but to make the playoffs you have to [...]
Certainly we’ve all heard that Mets slugging prospect Peter Alonso might start the year in Triple-A Syracuse to avoid achieving “Super Two status,” but you may still be wondering what does that exactly mean. While we hope Alonso becomes a super player for us, avoiding Super Two status would save the Mets money on Alonso [...]
Happy Valentine's Day to all those who call Mr. Met their soulmate. Curious question. Let’s say the guidelines for rookie contracts and arb eligibility change with the new CBA. Maybe we eliminate super 2 status, or shorten the duration of rookie contracts or arb eligibility. Does the change impact current arb eligible players and those [...]
Throughout the last two regular seasons, the topic of the Injured List (formerly the Disabled List), has been discussed more than anything else surrounding the Mets. Each season, they have appeared second overall in Roster Effect Rating, which measures the amount of value lost due to injury according to Roster Resource. While the ratings are [...]
It was a good news/bad news type of year for Steven Matz in 2018. The good news is that he was healthy and made a career-high 30 starts. The bad news is that after enjoying good fortune in the first half of the season, Matz didn’t have quite the same luck after the break and [...]
Mickey Callaway’s rookie managerial season skippering the Mets had some ups, and a lot of downs. He and the team had a sizzling start, then a dreadful June, before rallying to a respectable pace the latter part of the year. Perhaps the low point for Callaway was the infamous lineup mixup in Cincinnati that likely [...]
Once upon a time, in 2016, there was a left-handed pitching prospect named Thomas Szapucki. He pitched 52 innings between the Kingsport Mets and Brooklyn but set the scouting world abuzz with 86 strikeouts and a WHIP securely beneath 1.000 overall. Then, injury seemed on the horizon and his 2017 season was held to under [...]
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The average fan has a warped view of Scott Boras. They see him as arrogant, even by Sith Lord standards, and somehow think if he wasn’t around that ticket prices would go back to 1970 levels. It doesn’t help that he looks like the relative with obnoxious political views who always corners you at family [...]