Draft night scouting reports are adorable. Teams tell the media what they liked about each player. Every breaking ball is plus, or projectable. No player is overweight, instead, guys are described as “large” or the analyst uses some other appropriate simile. Every swing will work: there are no hitches, weird hand paths, poorly timed or directed […]
Author: BP Mets Staff
Who We Believe Will Be on the 25-Man Roster Come August… But Isn’t Now
Travis d’Arnaud: rotator cuff inflammation. Lucas Duda: lower back stress fracture. David Wright: frogs, boils, locusts, darkness for three days. Not only are the Mets down three position players, they’re missing arguably their three most important ones. After all, Juan Lagares is a rather studly fourth outfielder. But the team’s infield depth was such a weakness entering […]
For All You Kids Out There – Episode 4
It’s time for another episode of “For All You Kids Out There,” hosted by Jeffrey Paternostro and Jarrett Seidler. “Too Many Kates (Too Many Kates)” refuses to live up to its name, as the number of Kates is just right! Friend of the Site Kate Feldman joins the guys to discuss James Loney and first base, among other items. Then Kate […]
How We Would Fix Matt Harvey
One hundred and one MLB pitchers have thrown 50 or more innings in 2016. Matt Harvey has performed better than 10 of them. (All is not lost; one of those 10 is Jon Niese.) But wait! Dan Warthen believes he identified the flaw in Harvey’s delivery. It was patently obvious. What, you didn’t notice Harvey was collapsing his back […]
What We’ve Learned From One Quarter of the 2016 Season
As Baseball Prospectus co-founder and current Newsletter/Sports Illustrated writer Joe Sheehan says, there’s little point in analyzing a baseball season until you’ve seen 40 games. At that point in the 2016 season, Mets fans would have cried to learn they’d be 1.5 games behind the tanking Phillies. Yet, four games above .500 and only 2.5 games out of first […]
For All You Kids Out There – Episode 2
It’s time for another episode of “For All You Kids Out There,” hosted by Jeffrey Paternostro and Jarrett Seidler. The guys managed to reduce the podcast’s run-time to that of a Paul Feig film, rather than a Peter Jackson movie, and this one is filled with terrific #content. This episode–Half-way Between Misery and the Sun–features copious talk about […]
Mets Stories: Volume 1
Long west coast road trips can be hard on Mets fans, and not just the ones where they have to watch the Mets go 4-7. After a run of games that run well past Colbert and Conan, all those sleepless nights start to add up and make us go a little loopy. So we’ve gotten […]
For All You Kids Out There — Episode 1
Hello there. We here at BP Mets are excited to announce the debut of our site’s podcast: “For All You Kids Out There.” It’s hosted by Jeffrey Paternostro and Jarrett Seidler, whom you may know from the Internet, or perhaps your local minor league baseball stadium. The first episode of the show–What Kind Of Month […]
The Biggest Mets Villains
The guy you love to hate. The one you’re most afraid of when he faces the Mets in a clutch situation. You don’t root for players to get hurt, but if he happens to miss the next Mets series with flu-like symptoms, you won’t object. Even the guys you wish were not in charge. These are […]
Our Favorite Moments From the Season’s First Month
Remember when the Mets opened the season with a 3-5 record and had scored only 2.5 runs per game? They’ve now won eight of their last ten and have the third-best run differential in the National League at +36. So long, Panic City. Any month that puts a team on pace for a 105-win season will generate lasting […]