The Mets aren’t built correctly

The New York Mets have been criticized throughout the whole season for the way that they have performed on the field. Most players, with the exception of Jacob deGrom and Brandon Nimmo, most players have fell very short of their expectations, or have not been on the field to execute those expectations. As an aggregate [...]

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Gut Reaction: Phillies 4, Mets 2 (8/17/18)

The New York Mets allowed the Philadelphia Phillies to run all over them, and the Phillies in turn defeated them 4-2. With Noah Syndergaard on the mound, you usually can expect two things: that he will throw a good outing, and that the opposing team will steal a lot of bases. Well, Syndergaard was not [...]

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This Mets season can’t be turned around, can it?

The Mets have been playing pretty good ball of late. After the worst June imaginable that derailed the season, the Mets have played .500 ball since July 1. We’ve got a healthy and mostly effective rotation, Michael Conforto is hitting again, we got dead cat bounces out of Jose Bautista and now Austin Jackson, and [...]

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Gut Reaction: Phillies 9, Mets 6 (G2) 8/16/18

The Mets couldn’t make it three straight double-digit offensive outbursts, as they dropped the second game of the doubleheader against the Phillies, 9-6. This was the third doubleheader of the year for the Mets and all three have resulted in splits. The game started off as a continuation of the first game, as the first [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 24, Phillies 4 (G1) 8/16/18

If you thought the Mets had an offensive explosion last night, you should have seen them Thursday afternoon, as they erupted for two dozen runs as they downed the Phillies, 24-4, in the first game of a doubleheader. Amed Rosario got things started with a leadoff homer. Rosario finished the day with a four-hit game [...]

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Dominic Smith and the Mets’ murky first base situation

It seemed like a great pick at the time. June, 2013 and it was Mets’ GM Sandy Alderson’s third draft, his third chance to get a first round pick right. Previously, he had drafted Brandon Nimmo – a relatively obscure kid from Wyoming, whose high school didn’t even have a baseball team – and Gavin [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 16, Orioles 5 (8/15/18)

The Mets offense jumped to life, scoring their most runs in a game since 2015, as they beat the Orioles, 16-5, Wednesday night in Baltimore. In the three previous games against the Orioles, the Mets managed just four runs. The Mets already had five runs on the board when they exploded for nine runs in [...]

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Michael Conforto heats up here in the second half

Coming into the season, the Mets’ offense was supposed to be led by the C & C boys – Yoenis Cespedes and Michael Conforto. But it hasn’t worked out that way at all. Cespedes has been limited to just 38 games and while he hit okay while active, the hope was that he’d provide more [...]

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