September is upon us. The leaves are changing, the Mets are still on the edge of the playoff race, and major league teams can recall up to 40 players to the active roster. Four call-ups have already been confirmed by Betsy Helfand of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. I brought out my Magic 8-Ball to predict […]
Author: Jarrett Seidler
Nobody Believes Yoenis is Staying in New York (Except Me)
This week, Yoenis Cespedes once again reiterated to Matt Ehalt of The Record that he will does not plan to opt out of his Mets contract after the 2016 season, as is his contractual right. He later clarified that while no final decision has been made, he’d like to remain a Met. Cespedes has been […]
Neil Walker, Daniel Murphy, and Self-Scouting
Neil Walker, coming into the 2016 season, had been one of the most consistent players in baseball since becoming a regular. Behold, the consistency of Neil Walker, 2012-2015: Year G AVG OBP SLG wRC+ WARP 2012 129 .280 .342 .426 112 2.3 2013 133 .251 .339 .418 115 2.9 2014 137 .271 .342 .467 131 […]
Alex and The Mets
Do you know how for the last few years a lot of Yankees fans—and even some commentators—have casually considered it a fait accompli that Bryce Harper, once he reaches free agency after the 2018 season? It all sort of makes sense. Harper grew up as a Yankee fan. He’s going to get a mega-contract that […]
Dear Terry: Be Like Maddon
The Mets, coming out of the trade deadline, have a very strange roster. They’re carrying five outfielders—six if you count Kelly Johnson—yet all but Yoenis Cespedes are left-handed, and there’s no clear center fielder with Cespedes hurt. The infield looks more stable, but probably shouldn’t be, with James Loney and Matt Reynolds locked into regular […]
On the Comfort of a Good Announce Team
On a broadcast earlier this year, Ron Darling described the ideal baseball television broadcast as a casual conversation between friends. The SNY crew has a camaraderie and comfort level that exists on few other broadcasts. It’s been built over time — Cohen, Darling, and Hernandez have been broadcasting Mets games together since 2006. Darling and […]
Amed Rosario: To Trade Or Not To Trade?
Over at the Baseball Prospectus mothership, we do an annual series in July called The Trade Game. It’s a fun thought exercise where ten or so BP staffers pretend to be major league GMs and jockey to make the best deal. Some smart people (and this year, me) get to try and predict the market […]
Conforto and the Clock
We talk a lot about service time now. Over the past few years, a select group of teams have gotten very aggressive about call-up and demotion timing to “game” service time, to maximize both the six accrued major league seasons before a player can hit free agency and the two to three years where teams […]
Noah Syndergaard, All-Star Starting Pitcher?
Before this season started, I took a dive into the adjustments Noah Syndergaard had made during the 2015 season that caused him to graduate from being a top, but flawed prospect into a borderline ace as a rookie. 16 starts and a relief appearance later, we can basically can the borderline—like Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard […]
If the Mets Were Sellers … ?
Following their sweep at the hands of Washington, the Mets are in a strange position as of Thursday afternoon, almost exactly a month before the deadline. Six out in the division race, the Mets are right in the midst of an emerging hodgepodge of four teams with exactly 37 losses vying for the two berths […]