It’s 2017, the year that will make a decade of suffering and terrible baseball a fair trade. The only catch is nobody told fate and instead the New York Mets are injury-ravaged and playing scrappy baseball to stay alive. Eventually some health will return and the breaks will fall more in their favor, but it’s [...]
The ship is taking on water and we need our captain more than ever. Injuries are sapping momentum. Young players are behaving badly. Veterans are fighting through slumps. The wisdom and contagious enthusiasm of David Wright could save the day. As the 34-year-old battles back from a shoulder impingement, that derailed his comeback from a [...]
By now, we pretty much know what happened, short of being tableside at the club 1 Oak with Matt Harvey and his cronies on Friday night, May 5. The details have been played out across the entire media spectrum since mid-morning on Sunday and there’s really no need to rehash them here. The absolute bare [...]
The Mets snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, allowing four runs in the ninth inning en route to a 6-5 loss to the last-place Giants. For the third time in the last four series, the Mets had a chance for a sweep, only to lose the last game. Plenty of blame to go around [...]
It’s been an up and down season for the Mets so far, but unquestionably one bright spot has been T.J. Rivera. The 28-year-old rookie has been holding down the fort at first base while regular first sacker Lucas Duda has been on the DL. Duda has been working in extended spring training and his return [...]
For one night, at least, the Mets have nothing to apologize for. They raced out early, then cruised home on the recovering right arm of Zack Wheeler. The sun had barely begun to set over Citi Field when the Mets put their stamp on this game. After Wheeler retired the reeling Giants in order in [...]
Back in late January, before the Mets had finished assembling their 25-man roster, there was a discussion in the comments section of one of our articles, where MattyMets said: “On paper we have 7 starters, but who’s next in line – Ynoa and Montero. Yikes.” My reply to him was, “I do expect a guy [...]
Jacob deGrom and the bullpen held the Giants to three runs and the Mets offense, after stranding runners on the bases all night, finally came through with a big walk off win to take the opener of this three-game home series. deGrom only lasted six innings due to a high pitch count, but his solid [...]
This offseason Brian Joura and I both turned in Top 50 prospect rankings. I ranked Patrick Mazeika 12th overall and Brian ranked him 33rd. Neither of us thought that he couldn’t hit, Brian merely had no faith in Mazeika’s power, saying: “Lefty-hitting catcher, good AVG, no power.” Where as I described him as: [...]