Over at the Baseball Prospectus main site, our own Jarrett Seidler wrote about Tim Tebow after watching him play in Lakewood over the weekend. Here’s a sample of what he saw and you can read his column for the full report: “I genuinely don’t even know how to evaluate Tebow as a prospect. He’s 29 […]
Author: Jarrett Seidler
My Hands Are Tied / The Billions Shift From Side To Side
If you’re reading this, you’re probably aware that Jose Reyes is off to one of the absolute dirt-worst starts in baseball. Entering his benching in Thursday’s series opener in Miami, Reyes has opened a horrific 2-for-37, with just one walk and one extra-base hit compared to 11 strikeouts. It’s hard to completely give up on […]
WBC 2017: The Biggest Game of Seth Lugo’s Career
Seth Lugo’s had a lot of “biggest games of his career” in the past year, given that he was fighting to stay in the majors for much of last season. But last night, he took the ball representing Puerto Rico in what might forever be the biggest game of his career, the World Baseball Classic Championship […]
Broken Matt Harvey
Over on the main Baseball Prospectus site today, I wrote a piece about when spring training matters: the answer is “usually not much,” and particularly I don’t think traditional statistics like ERA or FIP are of any great concern. These are minuscule samples against varied competition with players often not exerting at full capacity. As […]
The Mets Have To Play Their Second-Best Outfielder
Coming out of the 2015 season, I never would’ve thought we’d still be sitting here in spring 2017 talking about why Michael Conforto can’t find full-time work with the Mets. It was obvious that they’d make room somewhere. Sure, Terry Collins kept finding silly excuses to play Michael Cuddyer, even into the playoffs, but talent […]
I Can’t Get No Relief
Meet the 2017 New York Mets! They’re pretty much the same as the 2016 Mets, minus Bartolo Colon and a few guys filling out the bottom of the roster. An unusually stable offseason saw the Mets re-sign most of their own key free agents, and not acquire a single player on a MLB contract who […]
Ten Prospects We Want to See in 2017
Over on the main site, the BP prospect team runs themed Monday Morning Ten Packs this time of year, picking 10 prospects who fulfill some criteria or another. Our BP Mets prospect team of Jeffrey, Skyler, and I decided to blatantly rip this off and write a “ten pack”-style article on the ten Mets prospects […]
The Improbable Prospect List Rise of Robert Gsellman
You may have been surprised to see Robert Gsellman, erstwhile Jacob deGrom clone—seriously, have you seen how much the two look alike with deGrom’s new heel beard?—and contender for the Met fifth starter position, pop up in the top handful of pitching prospects in baseball in the recently released Baseball Prospectus 101. On the other […]
Mets Top Prospects: No. 21 to No. 30
Welcome back to the conclusion of our BP Mets top 30 list. This list was put together by Baseball Prospectus Senior Prospect Writer Jeffrey Paternostro, BP Mets Prospect Contributor Skyler Kanfer, and myself over the course of the past few weeks. Full reports for prospects 1-10 are available on the main Baseball Prospectus site, we […]
Mets Top Prospects: No. 11 to No. 20
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be expanding the Mets top 10 prospect list from Baseball Prospectus out to 30 names. Joining me in this endeavor will be Baseball Prospectus Senior Prospect Writer–and my podcast co-host–Jeffrey Paternostro and new BP Mets minor-league contributor Skyler Kanfer. To recap where we’ve started, here’s the Mets top ten […]