The Mets staked Zack Wheeler to a five-run lead on Tuesday but lost the game. But it wasn’t Wheeler’s fault, unless you want to ding him for not pitching a complete game. Wheeler was pulled in the seventh inning and the bullpen brought its usual trusty fire relief tools to seal the game. Who knew [...]
Early fireworks off the bats of the Mets were rained out by the performance of the bullpen, as the Mets fell in disparaging fashion 8-6 to the Toronto Blue Jays. For the first six innings of this game, the Mets had the game in their control. This of course was due to a great start [...]
A season that began with plenty of promise has turned sour for the Mets. A case could be made for several different times as marking a spot where things went south. On April 16, the Mets entered the game against the Nats with a 12-2 record, then opened up a big lead but dropped the [...]
The Mets' farm system was ranked in the bottom third of all systems in the majors last year, and rightly so. Two of the top five prospects had dismal down years and two other top prospects were elevated to the majors. The 2017 season was bad at both the major and minor league levels and [...]
Perhaps no hitter in the National League is more likely to pull a ball on the ground than Kevin Plawecki. He hits a grounder in 61% of his ABs and he has a 57.6 Pull%. Both numbers are top 10 marks in the league and guys who do one don't necessarily do the other. It's [...]
The Mets salvaged the final game of the series with the Marlins, earning a 5-2 victory Sunday. The win vaulted the Mets out of last place, as they leapfrogged the Marlins in the standings. If you imagined in your mind what a game between two teams battling for last place would look like, well – [...]
It’s July and the Mets are in last place. Anyone who said they saw that coming at the start of the season is full of it. But regardless of the insanity of it all, now’s the time to deal with the reality of the situation. And last place teams in July better be rebuilding or [...]
5-21. Five-and-twenty ... (wait for it) ...-one. That was the Mets' record for the month of June, 2018. 5-21. The Mets ended the third-losingest month in their history, with a whimper, not a bang. Having screwed up my schedule and not realizing this game was scheduled for a 4:10 PM first pitch, I ended up [...]
Yeah, yeah, we lost again. This time to the last place team. The one who traded away all their best players in the off-season. The one we'll be trading standing places with by Sunday if we don't right this sinking ship. Ace and constant topic of Yankee fan speculation (no you can't have him, especially [...]