Tuesday night Jason Bay had a triple and a home run in the same game. It was the first time all year he had two extra-base hits in a game. Of course, you have to have at least two hits in a game to have a shot at that and Bay has had multiple hit [...]
You would think that after 40 years of watching the Mets’ brand of baseball, I’d be used to it by now. I was about six-years-old when I finally kind of caught on to what this “base-ball” thingy was. Since then, I’ve seen some seasons where it’s been awful from Jump Street: 1974, 1977 through ’79 [...]
In the month of June, six of the Mets eight regulars have an OPS over .800 and two regulars carry a sub-.600 OPS. It will surprise no one that Jason Bay is in the latter category. But many might be caught off guard that the other member of the poor-hit club this month is Justin [...]
Just in case you’re not buying into Jon Heyman’s prediction of 75-87, or most other writers’ pre-season abysmal expectations, you’ve probably noticed by now the Mets are hovering around respectability. They bumped into .500 after the first game in the 2011 Subway Series, and were just two games under as of Wednesday afternoon. Hell, they’re [...]
Last winter the Mets made the decision that Ruben Tejada was going to play shortstop in the minors and was not a candidate for the team’s second base job. Sandy Alderson kept true to this vision by including Tejada in the first round of cuts. The decision made sense. The 21-year old had not overwhelmed [...]
The Mets salvaged the final game of their three-game series against the Phillies as the bats finally came alive. The first two losses were tough to take, as the Mets held leads after seven innings in both games. They both fall into the category of toss-up games that I mentioned how the Mets are struggling [...]
Last year the Mets got rotten offensive production from the second base position. It did not matter who they threw out there, that person could not hit. Now when I say that, an idea probably comes into your mind of a couple of guys being bad and dragging down everyone else’s numbers. But that’s not [...]
This breaking news just in – Daniel Murphy can still hit. Last night’s 3-for-4 game raised Murphy’s overall numbers on the year to .286/.342/.486. His .828 OPS is tied for ninth among second baseman with at least 30 PA this season. Overall, 39 second basemen have reached that plateau and Brad Emaus ranks 39th with [...]
The Marlins have always annoyed me. As a Mets fan, I dislike how they had an easier path as an expansion team than the clubs that joined MLB in the 1960s. Also, I was not a big fan of how they won the World Series and then immediately stripped their roster. But mostly I disliked [...]
If we polled 100 Mets fans and asked them to name their favorite player, the top two responses would undoubtedly be Jose Reyes and David Wright. Those two players came up through the Mets farm system and are dynamic players capable of doing a bunch of different things on the baseball field. The perception is [...]
After four months without MLB, Spring Training is always a welcome sight. Even though the teams never have full lineups, the pitchers rarely throw at peak form and managers make moves they never would during the season – we can’t help but to look at the stats and look at things that jump out. There [...]
In this morning’s New York Post, Mike Puma wrote a column based on a person “with direct knowledge of (Terry) Collins’ plans” saying that the Mets are going to name Luis Hernandez as the team’s starting second baseman. How many people saw that one coming two weeks ago? The last time we saw Hernandez, he [...]