Primer Rain mercifully cut short the Mets’ time in Atlanta, saving our ears and our sanity from any more Tomahawk Chops until [checks schedule] ugh, late May. Instead, the team headed off to St. Louis to face the less-auditory-but-still-rage-inducing Cardinals with Luke Weaver on the mound. Zack Wheeler took the hill for the Mets, and […]
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Prospect Watch: Week One
Welcome to the first edition of the Baseball Prospectus Mets Prospect Watch! This weekly column will take a look at one pitcher and one hitter from each level of the Mets organization and offer thoughts on their performance thus far, as well as a brief scouting report with a future outlook. Triple-A Las Vegas 51s […]
Stat Preview: St. Louis Cardinals, April 24-26
The Cardinals and Mets enter the mid-week series atop their respective divisions. The Cardinals come in especially hot, sweeping the Reds over the weekend and having won eight of their last 10. They have allowed the third least runs in the National League, and their pitchers feature prominently in the following stats preview. To lead […]
What You Need to Know: April 23
The Mets are off to a stupefyingly good start. After rocketing to 12 wins in 14 games, the obvious question is: will this last? Can the rotation stay healthy? Somehow, the Mets’ mixed showings against their NL East rivals created more uncertainty this week. On Monday, the Mets suffered a brutal loss to the Nationals. […]
Game recap April 21: New season, same Mets
Jacob deGrom may be the unluckiest starting pitcher in all of baseball. deGrom turned in another fantastic start for the Mets Saturday night, as he struck out 10 and allowed only four hits in seven shutout innings. With the pitcher’s spot due up to begin the seventh, manager Mickey Callaway sent Wilmer Flores up to […]
Game recap April 20: Mets Make Mistakes, But Outlast Braves in 12
It wasn’t necessarily pretty, but the Mets persevered through a 12-inning marathon Friday night to top the Braves 5-3 and even their weekend series at Sun Trust Park. The game started with a bang for Atlanta, as after their starter Sean Newcomb tossed a scoreless first inning, second baseman Ozzie Albies greeted Mets ace Noah […]
Game recap April 19: They can’t all be good; It’s just that all of Harvey’s are bad
Braves 12, Mets 4 Final Just when the good feelings seem to be carrying Mets fans aloft, gravity pulls everyone back to Earth. The improbably ascendant Mets confronted the ongoing enigma that is their fallen ace as Matt Harvey dug an early hole the team could not climb out of, and they lost the opening […]
BP Mets Unfiltered: Five years later, Strasburg is better (but we’ll always have that night)
Five years ago today, the Mets beat the Nationals, 7-1. The Mets improved to 8-7 as Ike Davis and Lucas Duda each treated the Friday night home crowd to two home runs. Somehow the game feels like it happened yesterday, and simultaneously, a million years ago. The box score doesn’t indicate a game that would warrant […]
Stat Preview: Atlanta Braves, April 19-22
Atlanta enters the weekend series tied for second place in the NL East and three games back of New York. The Braves are tied with the Diamondbacks for first in the NL in run differential at +27, suggesting that their strong early play may not just be a flash in the pan. (The Mets’ run […]
Game Recap April 18: Redemption
The past few days have been a trying time in Metsland. After Monday’s heartbreaker in which the team blew a 6-1 lead in the eighth inning, followed by Tuesday’s frustrating loss, it was looking like the early-season mirage was over. The Mets were still the same old losers, and the Nationals still owned them. It was back […]