Two Met starting pitchers, Steven Matz and Seth Lugo, are due to come off the DL this upcoming weekend. Manager Terry Collins has said both will be inserted into the starting rotation, which will mean changes in roles for other pitchers on the staff. Some reports indicate that Robert Gsellman could be shifted to a [...]
The mysterious downfall of Jacob deGrom continued in the Texas heat and the Mets gave us a painful Texas tease. The game started promisingly as Michael Conforto led the game off with a loud double to right field against our old friend Dillon Gee. After two outs, Neil Walker drew a walk and Lucas Duda [...]
There is one man at the epicenter of Terry Collins's "Circle of Trust" when it comes to the bullpen. That man is Jerry Blevins, and Collins is not shy about the usage of Blevins. In fact, Blevins has appeared in 30 games this season, which is tied for tops in the majors. During his tenure [...]
Coming into this season, Desmond Lindsay was considered one of the club’s top prospects. Drafted in the second round in 2015, when the Mets didn’t have a first-round selection, it was thought he was a first-round talent who fell because of injury. In both 2015 and 2016, Lindsay performed well when he was on the [...]
In a game that was all kinds of ugly, the Mets lost by double digits when the opposing team started a guy named Trevor Williams, as they suffered an 11-1 setback to drop the rubber game of the series with the Pirates. Williams gave the Pirates 7 IP while allowing a solo run. Mets starter [...]
If you ask Mets fans about Michael Conforto, they’ll tell you he’s a star who’s showing why he should have been Plan A from the start of the year. If you ask those same fans about Lucas Duda, you’ll get a much more subdued response. But what’s been the difference between the two players this [...]
The Mets snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the Pirates Saturday night at Citi Field. The Mets broke out the long ball, with Neil Walker clubbing a two-run shot in the first inning and Jay Bruce and Wilmer Flores contributed solo shots in the third and fifth inning, respectively. Robert Gsellman, [...]
What do you do when your team built on pitching is, well, bad at pitching? To be fair, it's more a case of "pitching badly" than "bad at pitching," but this team was explicitly built on the concept of run prevention vice run production. That was the understanding, anyway, with the hope that a possible [...]