Quick! Name the last three Mets to win the major awards bestowed by the Baseball Writers Association of America. You’ve got Jacob deGrom’s 2014 Rookie of the Year and R.A. Dickey’s 2012 Cy Young. And then? You have to go all the way back to 1985 to find Dwight Gooden’s CYA. (We don’t count the Rolaids […]
Author: BP Mets Staff
Mets Madness
There’s something paradoxical about Spring Training. It feels great at first. We have pitchers, catchers, and sun shining on outdoor sports again. The season is full of hope. Then we get to the actual games … a whole lot of games that do not count. After a week or so, the novelty can wear off. […]
From BP: Short Relief: Ty Kelly Cannot Advise You on the Subject of Rivers
Over at the Baseball Prospectus main site, Patrick Dubuque and company are rolling out a new daily collection of short posts “… concerned primarily with the aesthetic, the metaphorical, and the ridiculous aspects of baseball as an unproductive labor that induces such devotion and contentment.” Every weekday, expect a couple of quick hits on a […]
What Would Not Surprise Us About the 2017 Mets
Way way back many centuries ago, not long after the blogging began, Will Leitch started a site called Deadspin. He relied upon tips from the common man. Will’s vision for Deadspin was to publish sports news that never made it into the public domain “because of either corporate obligations or just plain laziness.” Deadspin needed […]
From BP: Monday Morning Ten Pack – The Next Top 101 Prospects
Over at the Baseball Prospectus main site, there’s a snippet of Mets content for the die-hard prospect watchers. The BP prospect team breaks down 10 players who could pop up on the Top 101 next year, and that list includes Mets first-round pick Justin Dunn. Jarrett Seidler writes it up: Honestly, Dunn would’ve fit in last […]
How Jerry Dipoto Would Run the Mets
There was joy in Flushing when Sandy Alderson and the Mets re-signed Yoenis Cespedes to reprise his role as “Mets Offense” for the 2017 season. Since the Cespedes announcement on November 30? Literally nothing but a bunch of minor-league free agent signings and invitations to spring training. We appreciate @MetsGM for his professionalism and perseverance; it’s hard to work […]
Our 2016 Mets World Series MVP
It’s a long wait until Wednesday. At press time, it’s unknown who the Mets will defeat in the Wild Card game. It’s unknown how many games it’ll take for the Mets to beat the Cubs in the Division Series, and whether the Mets will beat the Dodgers or the Nationals in the NLCS. Though the American League champion could […]
Game recap September 28: Loney and Bruce and Familia, oh my!
In a sentence: The Mets did exactly what they needed to do and beat the Marlins 5-2, taking two of three games in the series. The good: Seth Lugo went 5.1 innings of five-hit ball, allowing just two earned runs and lowering his ERA to a 2.67. Sure, it was against the Marlins, and eventually the […]
Our Wild Card Nightmares
Let’s stipulate up front that with 13 games remaining and a Wild Card berth seemingly in hand, Mets fans are most afraid of this and this. To be in a position to worry about collapses is better than the alternative, of course. Three Sundays ago the Mets had lost to the floundering Phillies, were stuck behind the mediocre Marlins, and […]
Terry Collins’s Stretch-Run Wish List
<Extremely Movie Trailer Voice> IN A WORLD where the names of disabled Mets are more prestigious than those still on the active roster </>, you’d expect to long ago (or at least two weeks ago) feel like injuries decimated the team’s playoff chances. Instead, entering Sunday’s slate of games, BP’s playoff odds page gave the Mets a near-two-thirds […]