The Mets went all-in on Michael Cuddyer, signing him to a multi-year deal and surrendering a first-round pick. It was a bad decision at the time and one that only looks worse after watching him up close for a year. With that in mind, check in on our original piece to see what we thought [...]
This is the first entry in our Top 50 prospect list. Four writers contributed to these rankings and what follows is a consensus derived from a fair amount of back and forth among the group. It's not the list any of us would have come up with individually. At the end of the project we'll [...]
We all know the story, and we all remember the headlines. We probably remember the frustration we felt, like the wind was knocked from our guts when we heard that Jenrry Mejia would be suspended a second time, resulting in a 162 game suspension. Although he will not be back until August next season, there [...]
In April of this year, the Mets signed Juan Lagares to a five-year deal with an option. It was quite a change from a year previously when Chris Young was brought in for insurance. The insurance route turned out to be a disaster and the “all eggs in the Lagares basket” didn’t work out exactly [...]
Major league baseball general managers have some things in common with high profile politicians. They both have a public profile used while facing the press or, in the case of politicians, in debates. But they also have to answer to the “money interests.” The politicians have the big donors to court while the GM’s are [...]
Prior to last year, Zack Wheeler was thought of as an essential part of the Mets’ future. The hard-throwing, 4-pitch righty has as much #1 potential as the 2015 stalwarts who pitched us into the World Series. While Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz dominated on the mound and the back pages [...]
Baseball America recently released its list of minor league players who declared free agency. About two weeks ago, news that Vic Black was leaving hit and this details guys like Black, who spent time in the majors, along with guys who fall into the category of minor league lifers. In all, 23 former Mets farmhands [...]
Next up in our projection series is Curtis Granderson. The Mets’ big free agent signing prior to the 2014 season, Granderson was a disappointment in the first year of his four-year contract. But Granderson was actually pretty good for two-thirds of the year. He had a miserable April and August wasn’t much better. So, check [...]
INTERVIEW WITH JEFF GROSE: PART 2 Last week in this space we featured part 1 of our discussion with Jeff Grose. We heard about his early days with the Mets, Spring Training memories, and the onset of arm troubles. We wrap up today with his recollections of some of his teammates, the emotional end of [...]
The 2015 Mets were full of holes; no fan or analyst could argue that. Obviously the team improved at the deadline, but they still didn’t quite have the team to win it all. In the postseason, many things went right for the Metropolitans in the first two rounds. However, in the World Series the bats [...]
Next up in our projection series is Wilmer Flores. Perhaps no player was more polarizing than Flores and our individual projections are a good indication of this. Take a minute to review our original projection for Flores prior to the 2015 season. Here was our group forecast: PA – 484 AVG – .265 OBP – [...]
Next up in our projection series is Daniel Murphy. This may have been our last year with Murphy as a Met but his fans can be comforted that he went out with a bang, having played marvelously down the stretch during the regular season and continuing the strong play through the NLDS and NLCS. Take [...]