The New York Mets have typically based their winning teams off of the sole component of starting pitching. From the glory days of 1969 and 1973, to the dominant years of the mid 1980’s, heck, even the 1999-2000 and 2006 Mets had top-five team ERA’s. This tradition has carried over into 2015 with a 16-10 [...]
One good and one great article on exit speeds.
In games the Mets have won so far in 2015, they have walked 60 times and struck out an even 100. In those games the team line has been .260/.340/.395 with 13 home runs. In games lost by the Mets, the team has walked just 18 times, and struck out 80. That team batting line [...]
What if during Spring Training someone gave you the following bullpen line: 65 IP, 2.77 ERA, 12 SV, 20 BB, 71 Ks and a 0.923 WHIP If given three guesses, in order they likely would have been: Bobby Parnell, Jeurys Familia, Jenrry Mejia. Parnell would have come first because you might have assumed it would [...]
This season we’ve seen Rafael Montero, Kevin Plawecki, Jack Leathersich and Dilson Herrera ascend from AAA to the majors. The two biggest names still in Sandy Alderson’s back pocket are still out in Vegas and they have taken things up several notches recently. I’m talking, of course, about Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz. They are [...]
The past couple of months have been an adventure for Noah Syndergaard. It started in January, with Triple-A Las Vegas manager Wally Backman saying that Steven Matz is the “best pitching prospect” that the Mets have to offer, according to Bill Price of the New York Daily News. Backman would go on to say that [...]
Back-to-back 1-0 shutouts for the first time since 1973
Before the season started if you were to make the case for using Wilmer Flores at shortstop you would say he looked sort of okay defensively, he makes good contact and he showed in September with regular playing time that he could be an asset offensively. Besides, no one really wanted to see Ruben Tejada [...]
In yesterday's game the Mets struck out 12 times and left eight men on base. Today the offense struck out 10 more times and left 10 runners on base, providing zero offense to back their pitcher. Jon Niese pitched around a lot of traffic on the bases, but managed to give up just one run [...]
Early last month we wrote about some select Mets prospects that the team had been uncharacteristically aggressive in promoting to start the 2015 season. It was uncharacteristic in the sense that the team has generally been somewhat conservative with many of their prospects under General Manager Sandy Alderson's regime. It's unclear whether it was a [...]