At the risk of angering the gods, this post is about how today’s starting pitcher has been pitching great. Sean Manaea, despite his uncharacteristic struggles with walks, has the best ERA and FIP among all Mets starting pitchers. And unlike Jose Butto, who was getting the majority of his starts in the 2024 extreme pitcher’s [...]
Things can always get worse. A few days ago, the GR for the game against the Phillies called it the most disappointing loss of the season. In this game, Carlos Mendoza and Edwin Diaz said, “hold my beer,” and proceeded to deliver an excruciating loss, as the Mets allowed four runs in the bottom of [...]
Brian Yesterday at 4:04 pm Nimmo batting third today with Lindor leading off Boo Yesterday at 4:12 pm Rejiggering the batting order,11 out of 44 games have scored 1 or fewer runs! Brian Yesterday at 4:13 pm And Nimmo's first time batting 3rd this year comes with two runners on Boo Yesterday at 4:14 pm [...]
If you ask anyone on the New York Mets or in their orbit about the performance of the team so far this season, you’d get a consistent resounding response that it has been disappointing so far. They are under .500, and spare for some bright moments, the team has not felt like a cohesive unit [...]
The Marlins jumped Christian Scott with a four-run second inning and cruised to an 8-0 win in the opener of a three-game series Friday night in Miami. The one concern with Scott this year in Triple-A was his tendency to give up the gopher ball. After keeping the ball in the park in his first [...]
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The only thing that matters is what actually happens between the white lines. But there are things that happen because of skill and there are things that happen due to luck. At one point, fans likely believed that the overwhelming number of things that happened either in a game or over a season were due [...]
Jorge Lopez shut the door in the 10th inning and Jake Diekman got a strikeout with the tying run on third base as the Mets defeated the Phillies, 6-5, Thursday night in Philadelphia. The victory gave the Mets their first win in the finale of back-to-back, home-and-home, two-game series between NL East rivals. After going [...]
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Old baseball wisdom states that you’re going to win one-third of your games no matter what you do and lose one-third in the same fashion. It’s what you do in the other third of the games that determine your season. What if we took that same mindset and applied it to how teams handle their [...]
The Mets got some hits and scored some runs but it was another pitiful outing, as they fell to the Phillies, 10-5, Wednesday night in Philadelphia. They’ve now lost five of their last six games and are now 4-9 in the month of May. The Mets scored two unearned runs early and had a 2-1 [...]
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