Hello again Met fans! Very excited to be bringing you another year of Mets Minor League correspondence. 2016 will be quite a different beast than many I’ve covered in my time writing about the minor leagues. 2016 has no “Ace” pitcher, ready to ascend to the majors and join the storied Met rotation. We don’t [...]
As sharp as the 2016 Mets looked in their '86 throwback uniforms, it's hard to imagine how they can look at themselves in the mirror after dropping two of three at home to the rebuilding Phillies. Matt Harvey was okay, giving up 3 earned runs in 6 innings. He wasn't overpowering, but kept his team [...]
When we last saw the Mets in 2015, they didn’t hit well, they didn’t pitch well and they didn’t field well. That’s a tough trio of things to overcome and unsurprisingly, they lost four of their final five games. Flash forward to 2016 and the fielding has been sort of okay, the hitting has been [...]
Raise your hand if you predicted a pitching duel between Bartolo Colon and Vince Velasquez. Well, that's exactly what we witnessed in Colon's first start of the 2016 season. Unfortunately, the Mets lost the duel 1-0. The aforementioned Colon carried over his dominance of the Phillies from 2015, striking out seven over six innings. His [...]
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The Mets' offense came alive, scoring in three different innings and putting up crooked numbers in two of them, which led to a 7-2 win over the Phillies in the team's home opener on Friday afternoon. New York pounded out nine hits, with Michael Conforto and Neil Walker contributing two apiece. Conforto had 3 RBIs [...]
In comparing 2016 team payrolls, the Mets sit squarely in the middle, ranked 15th of 30 teams. At the top are the Dodgers ($248 million) and Yankees ($228 million), followed by the Red Sox and Tigers, each just a whisker under $200 million. The next group of teams with payrolls ranging from $158 million to [...]
For the Mets, it’s been an odd start to the 2016 season. First off, no one has ever opened a season with, basically, a continuation of the World Series. If Lucas Duda’s infamous throw had been on the money in game five, they would have headed back to Kansas City on November 2. Instead, it [...]