The Royals held serve and got a sweep of the first two home games with a convincing 7-1 win over the Mets Wednesday night. The series resumes on Friday in New York. Johnny Cueto dominated the Mets throughout the game. Some believed he was on the ropes early but the Mets got very few good [...]
After this morning’s 5-4 Kansas City Royals victory over the New York Mets, game two of the 2015 Major League Baseball World Series will begin tonight at 8:00pm E.T., and it has potential to be fantastic. The pitching matchup will feature Mets’ ace Jacob deGrom, and Royals’ “ace” Johnny Cueto. Since July 26, the day [...]
1986 TIM CORCORAN POSTCARD The 1986 Mets scored 783 runs, and if you're over 40, there's a good chance that you have fond memories of at least 700 of them. Perhaps you recall game 26 of that magical season, a matchup between Sid Fernandez and Rick Mahler. Fernandez was dominant for seven innings, striking out [...]
The Mets have played 24 World Series games, with their overall record standing at 12-12. Tonight, the Mets will begin the 5-9 day adventure on to whether or not the Mets will have a .500+ record on MLB’s biggest stage. Yes, we all eagerly await the biggest game the Metropolitans have played in over four [...]
If there is one last intangible in the game of baseball, it is the role of the manager. I'm sure contribution can be totaled by calculating the odds of one move versus another in some endless algorithm. Many of us over the years have played an armchair analyst or Monday morning quarterback regarding Terry Collins [...]
Continuing the review of Sandy Alderson’s drafts we reach 2012 and a draft that was much maligned at one point in time. The overall tune of scouts and pundits has begun to swing around as Alderson seems to have snuck some value into his picks, even if that value was not immediately apparent. Gavin Cecchini, [...]
Sending a message to players is important to do if there are individuals who think they are above the team. The Mets have had many ups and downs with one of their young starting pitchers throughout the past couple of seasons, whether it was because of stuff posted on social media, comments made to the [...]
The best thing about the World Series is that the Mets will be playing in it for the first time since 2000. That’s enough to make any Mets fan happy. What makes it even better for me is that the Mets got there by essentially abandoning one of the front office’s core beliefs: That the [...]
One of the main (baseball-related) story lines for the Mets National League Championship Series (NLCS) against the Cubs was high-end pitch velocity. Specifically, the Cubs as a team hit poorly (.228 BA according to Baseball Savant) as a team against pitches 95mph and above. The Mets, as a team, threw 2,510 pitches at 95mph or [...]
Pretty much all fans of professional football dislike the fact that most years there is a built-in two week wait separating the NFC and AFC championship games and the Super Bowl. There have been a few years when the wait was only one week and it seems that these years have had more entertaining and [...]