The Mets finally did the impossible on Tuesday: they outrighted Eric Campbell off the 40-man roster. Campbell cleared waivers–duh–and was assigned to Las Vegas in a paper move. He’ll declare minor-league free agency in a few days, so this is the functional equivalent of a straight release. I’m not here to celebrate the end of […]
Author: Jarrett Seidler
The Future of the Mets’ 40-Man Roster
Baseball season still goes on for two teams in Cleveland and Chicago, but every other team is already deep in offseason planning. Last week we looked at the first decision the Mets will have to make this offseason: what to do about the qualifying offer. This week we’ll look at the next big group of […]
The One About The Qualifying Offer
Last week, Major League Baseball set the qualifying offer for 2016-17 free agents at $17.2 million, up from $15.8 million last offseason and slightly above earlier estimates. To sum up the qualifying offer system: teams may offer any player who spent the full 2016 season with their squad a one-year contract at $17.2 million within […]
Goodbye, Stefan Sabol
Over the course of the past few months, as we’ve discussed the Tim Tebow signing on the BP Mets podcast, For All You Kids Out There, two names frequently came up as players comparable to Tebow that might be adversely affected by his signing: Stefan Sabol and Vicente Lupo. The Mets released both Sabol and […]
Don’t Look Back In Anger
Sometimes, you just run into the wrong pitcher on the wrong day. Madison Bumgarner is probably the greatest pitcher in modern postseason history. He was very good in 2010, had his only two bad playoff appearances ever in 2012 backed up by a sensational World Series start, and turned into this millennium’s Old Hoss Radbourn […]
How To Achieve Maximum Thor
So you think you’re going to be in the Wild Card Game? As the Mets pull towards the end of September, they sit in a tight three-for-two scenario to get a berth in the Wild Card Game next Wednesday night. With Bartolo Colon being moved up to start Friday’s opener in Philadelphia, the options for […]
BP Mets Unfiltered: Baseball’s Greatest Loss
This was supposed to be a column about the National League Cy Young race. I’ve been putting it off for a few weeks while I looked at Mets pitching development, but I’ll outline what I was going to do. I was going to compare Noah Syndergaard to Max Scherzer (and perhaps Madison Bumgarner or Kyle […]
Try Try Try To Understand (Warthen’s A Magic Man)
For a few years now, it’s been something of a given that the Mets develop pitching well … but it’s not often discussed how. Are they getting elite pitching talent into the system and just watching it grow? Are they excelling at bringing the most out of what they have? Intuitively, years of watching and discussing the farm […]
The One That Didn’t Work Out
Last week in this space, I looked at the difference between Robert Gsellman as a prospect and as a major league pitcher. Gsellman’s improvements in the upper-minors and at the MLB level are fairly typical of what the Mets have imbued on a number of pitching prospects over the past few years, leading to outcomes […]
Gsellman is Ggood!
Robert Gsellman came into the season as roughly the 11th guy in line for starts for the 2016 Mets. The Opening Day rotation—Harvey, deGrom, Syndergaard, Matz, Colon—looked pretty locked in. Zack Wheeler was supposed to come back before the All-Star break. Logan Verrett and Sean Gilmartin had already proven their mettle in the majors in […]