What if the Mets added only one SP in the offseason?

We all want the Mets to be active in free agency and begin the 2024 season with five starters capable of making 30 starts, providing they remained healthy. We thought that’s what the Mets had coming into 2023 but remaining healthy – and still on the team past the trade deadline – proved easier said [...]

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Mets Minors: Offseason deep dive on Kevin Parada

Biography: We wrote about Parada last season and nothing has changed about his biography except he is another year older and another league more advanced. While watching another Met catching prospect (who is younger than him) ascend to the majors, he spent most of his year in Advanced A. Resume: 2023 was a slightly down [...]

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Diving into Drew Gilbert’s 2023 home/road splits

Of the prospects that the Mets picked up in their numerous deadline deals, the one that had the most success after being acquired was outfielder Drew Gilbert, who was part of the package received from the Astros for Justin Verlander. Gilbert had forced an in-season promotion while with the Houston organization, going from Hi-A to [...]

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Looking back at Brodie Van Wagenen’s tenure with the Mets

Now that Billy Eppler is gone, and has etched his name into forgettable Mets lore, it might be just the perfect time to evaluate Brodie Van Wagenen’s performance as General Manager from October 2018 through November 2020. Yes, you read that right. While it is easy to judge a general manager in the immediate wake [...]

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A payroll-neutral look at the Mets’ arbitration-eligible players

This is the list of Mets eligible for arbitration, courtesy of MLB Trade Rumors. The number in parentheses is the service time the player has accrued, while the following number is MLBTR’s estimate of what the player will make in arbitration. Daniel Vogelbach (5.138): $2.6MM Trevor Gott (5.057): $2MM Elieser Hernandez (5.044): $1.6MM Drew Smith [...]

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It’s not easy to win the World Series

Now that we are deeply entrenched into the playoffs, one in which the Mets are again watching from home, it is easy to fall back into the “why again do we root for this team?” mode.  A little more than 60 years in existence, we only have two world series titles to show for our [...]

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A beginner’s guide to the ‘Phantom IL’

Shortly after the Mets officially announced David Stearns as their President of Baseball Operations and the surprising resignation of General Manager Billy Eppler, reports poured in that Eppler was under MLB investigation for improper use of the Injured List. MLB evidently took umbrage with his use of what is referred to in baseball circles as [...]

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A smart businessman’s approach to get under the draft-pick-penalty threshold

To date, we’ve seen 2024 Opening Day roster projections from two people here at the site – Steven and Denis. We might see one or two more, too. This piece today is going to be somewhat like that but more in the vein of what’s possible, rather than, “here’s what should happen.” In the post-Madoff, [...]

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