Baseball-Reference lists the starters by position for each team, each year. Jason Bay started the most games in LF for the 2012 Mets, so he is considered the team’s starter this season, despite the fact he made just 54 starts in left this year. Seven different players made starts in LF for the Mets this […]
My uncle, who drank liquor, smoked cigars and loved his trips to Atlantic City, never struck me as a particularly religious fellow. But he used to have a sign in his store which read: In God we trust, all others much pay cash. The stathead version of that credo is: In God we trust, all […]
Yesterday on Facebook, I shared George Takei’s photo of Confucius which said: Forget about the past, you can’t change it. Forget about the future, you can’t predict it Forget about the present, I didn’t get you one. But I have specific presents that I wish I could give out to the 2012 Mets which would […]
Hmmm… there was probably a better pun to be made there. Oh well, moving on. I’m among the minority of Mets fans that, even after his 2011 season, still liked Angel Pagan. I could certainly understand why so many other Mets fans were frustrated with him. But I never understood the logic behind the non-tender […]
I love writing about the Mets. However, writing is frequently a solo occupation and it can be a very lonely thing. Fortunately, writing on the Internet is somewhat interactive and we have the comments section where readers can chime in and tell you how brilliant you are. Of course, they can also chime in and […]
It’s no fun to contemplate the Mets without Carlos Beltran but as John Wooden once reminded us, “Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.” Plus with the recent revelations that owner Fred Wilpon thinks Beltran is “65 to 70 percent of what he was” when he signed him, there’s really only one conclusion to be […]
All of the speculation in Mets land recently revolves around who the new manager is going to be. There is a debate going on about how much autonomy the new manager will actually have, but seemingly one thing he will have control over is setting the batting order. Now, for the most part, lineup construction […]
It is hard to find a more polarizing figure in baseball than Jeff Francoeur. One group thinks Francoeur is great because he gives 100 percent all of the time, looks great in a uniform, gets a lot of RBIs, has a cannon for an arm, plays like he really loves the game, is a positive […]