The Mets are more than 10 games out of first place in the NL East and far enough out of the Wild Card that it will be a miracle if they can claim a spot. Their offense has been slacking all season and the bullpen is an inconsistent mess. Of course, the young players have [...]
1971 MILK DUDS BUD HARRELSON We children of the '70s needed to have something on which to spend our hard-earned dimes when it was not baseball-card season. My personal choice was to visit the local Ha-Cha and Park Island stationery stores and load up on my favorite candies: Bazooka Big Buddy, Spree (the smaller tablets [...]
If you can remember as far back as last week, you might recall that the Washington Nationals were in town for the first time since Opening Week. That series produced no wins for the Mets, and neither did the more recent one. You may have heard that the Mets record in their last 11 games [...]
Curtis Granderson, who we affectionately refer to as Granny on the Mets360 Game Chatters, first appeared in the leadoff spot for the Mets lineup on June 15th. It wasn't until July 5th that he retained that spot, seemingly for the rest of the season. Since that date, Granderson is batting .197/.276/.299 with three home runs, [...]
There’s no team that it’s okay to lose to yet if there’s one team that we should never accept defeat against - it’s the Cubs. They haven’t been to the World Series for 17 years before we played our first game. And the Mets’ franchise is over 50 years old. My wife’s grandmother is 103 [...]
During Sunday's matchup with the Chicago Cubs, the chatter in the SNY booth turned at one point toward the minor league systems of both the Mets and Cubs. This is understandable, as both teams are largely out of the playoff hunt (barring any miracles) and possess top-5 rated systems. Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez mentioned [...]
The Mets starting rotation has been solid this season, featuring Bartolo Colon, Jacob deGrom, Dillon Gee, Jon Niese, and Zack Wheeler. In a rotation featuring pitchers with ERAs below 4.00, there has been a consistency of good starting pitching throughout the season. Although pitchers experiencing streaks may be common, Wheeler is turning a corner late [...]
The evolution of the Mets’ bullpen from disaster to team strength has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2014 season. One of the big reasons has been the clearing out of older guys who either lost zip on their fastballs (Farnsworth, Valverde) or who never had it in the first place (Lannan, [...]