Barring any last-minute disasters, 24 of the 25 Opening Day roster spots have been decided for your 2017 New York Mets. There’s still one single open question–we’ll get two the two pitchers duking it out later on–but most everything seems set in stone for Day One. Feel like reviewing the roster containing the first New York Mets […]
Author: Bryan Grosnick
From BP: Looking Back on Tomorrow – New York Mets
This week, Baseball Prospectus is wrapping up our season preview series … and today I have the Mets’ side of things. The conceit of these season previews is that we’re trying to figure out what the 2017 season will be remembered for; when it comes to the Mets it seems obvious that the remarkable, talented […]
T-D-A and P-E-C-O-T-A
Ask any Mets-watcher at the end of last season, and they might’ve told you that the team’s Achilles heel was the catcher position. Not only has Kevin Plawecki played his way from top prospect to offensive cipher, but the (original) centerpiece of the famous R.A. Dickey trade completely cratered after a breakout-but-shortened 2015 surge. Travis d’Arnaud […]
From BP: Four More Years! Four More Years!
By now you probably heard the news: Yoenis Cespedes has re-signed with the Mets on a four-year, $110 million contract. Over at Baseball Prospectus, I broke the move down as best I could through the waves of jubilation and the shock that the Mets are finally acting like a big-market team again. It’s a brave […]
From BP: The 2017 New York Mets Top 10 Prospects
Today’s a big day for us Mets fans: Baseball Prospectus has published the list of the team’s Top 10 prospects for the upcoming season. If you’re interested in who made the list, now’s a great time to subscribe to Baseball Prospectus and read this article. Our Jeffrey Paternostro–BP’s Lead Prospect Writer–writes up the team’s 10 […]
From BP: You Can Predict Ball
We were promised greatness. Leading into this game, the prospective Madison Bumgarner vs. Noah Syndergaardmatchup was supposed to be the clash of aces that makes for must-see baseball. The game’s most notorious postseason pitcher–one of the greatest of all time already–faced off against the hardest-throwing starting pitcher in the game, a young ace who carried his team on […]
A Brief Review of Jose Reyes’ 2016 Performance
It seems impossible to believe, but the Mets have replaced David Wright as the team’s everyday third baseman with a minor-league free agent, and that minor-league free agent is one of the team’s 10 greatest on-field performers in history*. Jose Reyes has come in and done almost exactly what the Mets advertised he would do: […]
Projecting the Possible Mets Wild Card Roster
There are two and a half weeks left in the season, and that’s going to feel like a long, long time. While the world sits and watches and bites their nails to see if the Mets will stay in their skin-of-their-teeth second Wild Card spot, the team will be struggling to needle out every possible […]
BP Mets Unfiltered: Signing Tim Tebow Isn’t Bad, It’s Just Kind of Funny
I’ve got to be honest, I didn’t see this coming at all. The Mets are in the middle of a tight pennant race, surging to become a better-than-50-percent favorite to make the playoffs. That seemed impossible once the injuries started piling up and James Loney was in the mix. The focus has been on the […]
BP Mets Unfiltered: Listing All This Front Office’s (Major) Transactions
The Mets have taken a bit of a beating with their mid-season acquisition of corner outfielder Jay Bruce … and sure, I’ve piled on a bit too. But I wanted to examine whether or not the current front office, as a whole, has done a good job of acquiring major-league talent through trade and/or signing. […]