For half the season, if not more, Mets fans clamored to see Amed Rosario get a promotion to Queens. The Mets’ defense at shortstop was not good and Rosario did a lot of damage offensively in the friendly environment of Las Vegas and the Pacific Coast League. It seemed like the perfect confluence of events. [...]
In a game that began with a weird pitching experiment, the Mets hung tight but blew the game in the 10th inning on a go-ahead home run by, who else? Daniel Murphy. The game began with Noah Syndergaard making his first major league appearance since tearing his right lat muscle on April 30. As GM [...]
Going into the 2017 season, Dominic Smith was one of the top prospects in the Mets organization. As the team started to perform poorly, fans clamored to have him join the big league squad. There want to have Smith up with the team became bigger after the trade of Lucas Duda, the original starting first [...]
For the Mets, all had appeared lost after starter Rob Gsellman allowed a total of six runs in five innings. It was a bit of a rough start for Gsellman, who walked three, allowed four hits, and gave up a three run home run to Adam Lind. This should be troubling for a pitcher who [...]
A scrappy shortstop in college and minors, His energy was evident to all scouts and signers. What he lacked with the bat he made up for with grit, He stole bases, and dazzled with a mitt. A big league player he was not meant to be, But coach was another role he could see. He [...]
In yesterday’s article about Brandon Nimmo, a side thread in the comments section developed about Nori Aoki, specifically his contract status and the viability of bringing him back as a reserve outfielder in 2018. Commenter Pete In Iowa expressed this opinion: What’s all this crap about the $7 – $8 million Aoki would get being [...]
Matt Harvey has left us. Or, better stated, the Harvey we loved has. A combination of untimely injury – really, when is an injury ever timely? – slow recovery, diminished effectiveness and a little bit of his own bad judgment have conspired to threaten what was once limitless potential. Those first three conspirators are connected, [...]
The Mets lost 9-2 to hand the Marlins the sweep in one of the ugliest series they've played in a long, ugly season. The good news is we don't have to face the Marlins again until 2018. Rafael Montero struggled, allowing five runs in just four innings and Erik Goeddel threw gas on the fire, putting [...]
You who are on the road Must have a code that you can live by Even if you’re not on the road, it’s good to have guiding principles. Take Sandy Alderson, for instance. We know his guiding principle is that power is of utmost importance, for both hitters and pitchers. We also know that he [...]