I love baseball. Yeah, football is awesome too, but there’s something magical about the lack of a game clock and lazy, hazy days of summer. And as the leaves transform into a spectacular canvass and the New York Mets routinely heading out for golf courses in Florida, I get a bit blue after game 162. [...]
Next up in our projection review series, we’ll take a look at first base. When 2014 dawned, the situation was murky, to say the least. Projections could only be made based on strong opinion, rather than history. Nobody had any idea how much playing time was going to be doled out between the nominal incumbent [...]
The 2014 New York Mets had an outstanding bullpen at times and was overall a strength of the team. It didn't start that way and it certainly didn't look that way at times during the season. There are a few pitchers that made the bullpen so questionable early on. As we continue our look into [...]
In 2015, the Mets expect to have Matt Harvey back in the starting rotation. They also expect to call up Noah Syndergaard from Triple-A Las Vegas and place him on the Major League roster. This leaves them with the dilemma of having more than enough pitchers to try and fit in a five-man starting rotation: [...]
It is no secret that the Mets will be looking to improve in two areas in 2015. They either need a shortstop or an outfielder, but the Mets most likely won't pursue both. Shortstop has young options in Wilmer Flores and Matt Reynolds, or they could fall back on Ruben Tejada. And there's always free [...]
Postseason teams are typically stacked with talent from the man getting paid the most to the 25th man. These great teams have a knack for being able to pick out the best players to ride on the bench. While this may be a waste of talent at times, a well-rounded and talented bench can make [...]
It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma… That is a famous quote by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, made in 1939. He was trying to forecast what Russia would do in the face of confrontation with Hitler’s Germany, but he may as well have been talking about the 2015 off-season for [...]
Next up in our projection series is second baseman Daniel Murphy. Murphy had a very good year by his standards, which is to say a high average with some minor power and underrated speed. While both of those statistics went down for Murphy in 2014, he still made the All-Star team for the first time [...]
As it seems Lucas Duda proved his worth, at least for the time being in the eyes of the Mets management and fanbase, this season by putting up 30 homers, albeit hitting poorly against lefties. He hit well against righties with a slash line of .273/.372/.543, but against lefties he only managed to have a [...]
Next up in our projection review series is the captain, David Wright. Coming off of two MVP-caliber seasons in a row, Wright suffered through arguably the worst season of his career in 2014, with his numbers falling off across the board. Of course, Wright was dealing with a severe shoulder injury for a majority of [...]
Looking at the Mets pages over at Baseball-Reference and FanGraphs and I’m constantly surprised at the things that jump out at me. Here are 10 things that made me do a double-take. Among players with at least 100 PA, Lucas Duda led the team with a .349 OBP and Kirk Nieuwenhuis was second with a [...]
With an eagerness and hunger to make it into the playoffs next season, the Mets need to have a successful offseason. Sandy Alderson will be looking to get either a shortstop or left fielder to help make the Mets’ offense better than it was this season. Even without signing a free agent, the Mets will [...]