Losers of five of seven after splitting a pair in Arlington, the scuffling Mets visit Atlanta’s new ballpark for the second time this season to play a four-game weekend set that includes a split-admission twin-bill on Saturday. Owners of the second-worst earned run average in the majors, a once-promising set of arms that has drawn […]
Day: June 9, 2017
Notes from the Field: Columbia Fireflies
After already writing up Thomas Szapucki, there are plenty of other interesting and less interesting prospects that I could write up from the Columbia Fireflies. However, I’m not going to go over again the same prospects that Jeffrey wrote up last month when he saw this same Columbia team. I could tell you again how […]
Jay Bruce and the journey to find his old self
In March, James Wagner of the New York Times published an article detailing Jay Bruce’s quest to better understand why he struggled when he first joined the New York Mets last August. Bruce was supposed to help the Mets down the stretch when he was acquired on August 1 from the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for Dilson […]