Labor Day's game was pretty brutal. The Mets team had a tremendous six-error game against the hated Miami Marlins, in which young second baseman Dilson Herrera committed two of those blunders. He also had a spectacular day at the plate, however, hitting his first career home run, and first career triple, on his way to [...]
Surely you were aware the New York Mets were tied to trade rumors leading up to the waiver-trade deadline, with Bartolo Colon's name being front and center. With the Los Angeles Angels losing Garrett Richards for the foreseeable future, and them needing a quality, veteran arm, they needed another good arm for the stretch run. [...]
Sunday the Mets downed the Phillies, 6-5. The victory gave them a 2-1 series win and wrapped up the last time the two teams would meet in 2014. The Mets finished the year with a 13-6 record against their division rival. Here’s some other factoids in the Mets-Phillies rivalry. If the two teams did not [...]
“All I’ll say is we have higher expectations than we’ve had in the past.” -- Sandy Alderson, February 2014 Saturday’s night loss made it mathematically impossible for the Mets to win 90 games. If you recall, back in February, Alderson allegedly told team executives that the Mets should challenge for that many wins this season. [...]
Over 160 career ABs, Matt den Dekker has shown that he is most likely not going to be the Mets everyday LF for the foreseeable future. We all know he can play the position, but he can’t hit. His K rate has decreased in his current stint on the Mets, but he isn’t hitting for [...]
If you listen to people around the baseball world there is a general consensus. The Mets could be contenders in 2015 and all it will take is money. Sure, Sandy Alderson could get creative. He could trade some of the young talent and find ways of improving the anemic offense without spending money, but why [...]
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Thursday night the Mets reached down to Double-A to promote Dilson Herrera as the corresponding move to placing Daniel Murphy on the disabled list. This move is bold, completely unexpected and terrific news for those of us who want to get better sooner rather than later. In the past, we might have expected the Mets [...]
Currently the Mets outfield is made up of two players in the teams long term plans, Curtis Granderson and Juan Lagares. The third outfield position is manned by a make it or break it platoon of Matt den Dekker and Eric Campbell. The issue with this arrangement is that the Mets lack offense and they [...]