The question plaguing the Mets right now is: How do we get more offense? The company line is to wait for the injured players to come back and hope that Michael Cuddyer reverts back to 2013. The rest of us aren’t so hip to that plan. Often times we try to package our trash for [...]
The Mets needed a great performance today for any hope of tying the series up. What they received was a deGrominate one. The reigning Rookie of the Year showed just exactly why he won the award, striking out 11 over eight innings, and allowing just one hit all day. Those 11 Ks were the most [...]
It occurs to me that there are so many issues in the Mets organization and in baseball that get debated constantly behind the scenes by fans and media, alike. It's with that mindset serving as a backdrop that we present a conversation between me and Brian Joura. Frank - It seems the desperation level in [...]
The offense is MIA and the SP has no command
Throughout this career, Jon Niese has been nothing short of an effective left-handed pitcher for the New York Mets. With a career winning percentage aournd .500, Niese currently finished only two of his eight total seasons with more losses than wins. Niese is also the only lefty in the Mets’ starting rotation, but with Steven [...]
2002 TOPPS BRUCE CHEN It is always bittersweet when a human time capsule like Bruce Chen retires. You look back at his first career start-- a 21-year old lefty for the division-leading Braves facing a distant-second Mets squad in an essentially meaningless September game-- and the names that float through the box score speak of [...]
Through the first quarter of the season, there have been surprises and disappointments across the league. From the .406 hitter in Gordon and the one walk from Colon to the .143 batting average from Chase Utley and 5.76 ERA from R.A. Dickey, this season has proved to be interesting thus far. However the biggest surprise [...]
To quote the Bubble Boy from Seinfeld: "How ya doing over there? Not too good!" This game was really about one thing, Jon Niese and his recent inability to limit damage. In his last 11.1 innings he's allowed 14 runs, all but two of them were earned. I guess the bright side is that he's only [...]