I don’t know much, but I know Noah Syndergaard is an extremely effective pitcher. Yes, his talent appears to be off the charts, but that’s different from how he applies that talent to the sport of baseball, and he applies said talent in a way that is astoundingly effective—even more so once you factor in […]
Author: Erik Malinowski
Second to One: The Relative Importance of Neil Walker
I’ve been thinking a lot about Daniel Murphy lately when I should be thinking a lot more about Neil Walker, since the former decamped for a new contract in D.C. while the latter is in Mets colors for the here and now. But after last season’s playoff run and Murphy’s subsequent departure for the Mets’ […]
The Unbearable, Irrepressible Hope of Opening Day
If coming out to Opening Day is the purest and most exhilarating form of unsullied optimism, then I’ve mainlined raw, uncut Mets hope exactly twice in my life. The first was in 1993, when my father and I drove the two-plus hours from northeastern Pennsylvania into Queens … and I remember this day well because […]