For the second straight year, the Mets have acquired an impact bat at the trading deadline, this time picking up OF Jay Bruce from the Reds in exchange for Brandon Nimmo and two other prospect. The deal is pending physicals. The Mets were rumored to be interested in Bruce this time last year, when the [...]
Braving the rain and terrible drivers in and around Brooklyn, I decided to catch a game in Coney Island to get to see my favorite rising star within the Met organization, Thomas Szapucki. The game time was 4:00 PM and the rain held off, for the most part, and I was ready to see Szapucki [...]
The struggling Mets got of the schneid (whatever that means) with a 6-4 win over the Rockies to end a four-game losing streak and close out a frustrating month of July. On a day when the Mets lineup resembled a b-team with Alejandro de Aza leading off, James Loney batting third, and not an All-Star to [...]
The 2016 Mets were supposed to be a team built on pitching, specifically starting pitching. The starters had the potential to be great and the thought was that while the bullpen might be a question mark, the starters would go deep enough, often enough, that the bullpen could be kept from being exposed. As it [...]
The Mets lost to the Rockies 7-2 at Citi Field tonight after retiring Mike Piazza's number, dropping the first three games of the four-game set. It's also their fourth loss in a row overall. Bartolo Colon started this one for the Mets. The 43-year-old had a stellar, efficient outing in his last start so the [...]
I'm tired of talking about the Mets' hitting, particularly with runners in scoring position. You're tired of reading about it. This is where we are, though. Their RISP impotence is no longer some weird quirk in the stat line that the team should just work on improving. It's essentially a full-blown crisis. Don't believe me? [...]
Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare
With the trade deadline looming, Mets' GM Sandy Alderson seems focused on adding a bullpen arm if anything at all. You could easily make the argument that the Mets and their feeble offense are more in need of a bat than an arm, but that's easier said than done as every position in the field [...]
Until last night, the Mets had been 48-0 in games they led after eight innings. They are now 48-2. Jeurys Familia let another game slip away this afternoon, but this one is on Terry Collins, with an assist from the offense's ineffectuality with runners on base. Jacob deGrom rebounded nicely from his dud outing in [...]