The dominant Mets officially died in 1993. They’d been in steep decline since 1991 and there were frantic attempts to stem the tide of the inevitable: the signings of Bobby Bonilla and Eddie Murray, the trade for Bret Saberhagen, the hiring of Jeff Torborg to manage. None of it worked. Management was slow to pick [...]
Steven Matz has been really good the parts of the two seasons we’ve seen him in the majors. Unfortunately, he’s also spent considerable time on the disabled list in both of those years. Matz had offseason surgery to clean out bone spurs in his elbow but what ended his season was irritation in his shoulder. [...]
Opening Day for the Mets is not until April 3rd when the Braves venture into Citi Field, but I'm going to be bold and make a long range prediction of what the Met batting order will look like that day. Barring injury, Atlanta will assuredly start their ace, right hander Julio Teheran, so there will [...]
But did he work on his core in a spin class?
To say that the 2016 season was a disappointing one for Met’s catchers would be a bit of an understatement. Entering the season, catcher seemed to be a position of strength with a healthy Travis d’Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki with another year of major league experience under his belt. Between injuries and poor play the [...]
Does the season hang on Matt Harvey? We seem to think that Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom will be both healthy and dominant. And while we haven’t projected Steven Matz yet, it’s probably safe to assume that not many will be throwing out 200 IP seasons for him. So, can Harvey recover from his surgery [...]
The Top 5 prospects, the best of the best and a land of few surprises. These should be nothing but players you know and expect to see within the Top 5. Expect to hear a lot about these players through Spring Training and throughout 2017. While the Mets do not have a Matt Harvey, Zack [...]
We’ve all seen players go on hot streaks. Often times on these hot streaks, there’s a ton of good fortune and not much else going on. But occasionally, we see something different happening beyond just “the hit gods smiled on him.” At the end of 2015, we saw Daniel Murphy turn on pitches rather than [...]
An infographic on some recent free agents
How successful Matt Harvey's 2017 campaign will be is hard to predict. Coming off an injury-shortened 2016 season where he had to have a procedure for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Harvey is hoping to bounce back for a successful season on the mound. A successful season could mean many things for Harvey and the Mets. For [...]
Asdrubal Cabrera was a strong offensive player in 2011 and 2012. Then from 2013-2015, he put up a combined .712 OPS, one that was that high only because of a monster second half of 2015, when a .348 BABIP led to a .916 OPS, after he posted a .627 OPS in the first half of [...]
Every season as a Mets fan always seems to feature one player who comes out of nowhere to have a terrific season. Maybe they were a career minor leaguer who finally got their chance (Terry Leach), a platoon player who got thrust into full-time duty (Xavier Nady), a marginal prospect who defied expectations (Dillon Gee), [...]