When Michael Conforto strode to the plate in the second inning, the red-hot Los Angeles Dodgers had every reason to be worried. The Mets were already up 3-0 and had two runners on. Conforto had already homered in his first at-bat. Dodgers’ lefty Rich Hill couldn’t fool anyone with his straight 90 mph fastball. So […]
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Game recap August 4: A playoff baseball team (but not the one you’d like)
Primer After losing two in Colorado, the Mets return to Citi Field with Jacob deGrom on the mound, who looks to bounce back after having his eight-game winning streak snapped in Seattle. Opposing the Mets were the behemoth Dodgers and their newly acquired ace, Yu Darvish. The Mets are bad. The Dodgers are historically great. […]
Dodgers series preview August 4-6
Remember when the Mets beat the Dodgers in the playoffs two years ago? That was fun! Since then, the two teams have gone in opposite directions. The Mets got to the Wild Card game in 2016 and are now largely playing out the stretch in 2017. Meanwhile, the Dodgers are 42-11 since the start of […]
Game recap August 3: Shrimp
Mets 4, Rockies 5; Final In the end, even the arrival of Amed Rosario was too much good to be enjoyed. A lost season? Once-in-a-generation pitching on the shelf? All that was needed was a slapstick end to this road trip to make sure no one mistook this team for contenders any time soon. As […]
Game Recap August 1: Meet Amed
Mets News The best news. As if you hadn’t heard, Amed Rosario, midseason #2 prospect in baseball, was promoted on Monday, minutes after the trade deadline passed. Purportedly, it was Sandy Alderson’s plan all along to delay calling up Rosario “until the roster had solidified.” Alderson’s strategy, however, may not extend to instructing his manager […]
BP Mets Trade Deadline Roundtable: A Snapchat To Be Named Later
On Monday night, we decided to have a little fun. Instead of doing regular trade analysis (which Kate already did and it’s boring anyway), we (Justin Birnbaum, Noah Grand, Kate Feldman, Adam Kaufman, Lukas Vlahos, Seth Rubin, Dave Capobianco, and Jeffrey Paternostro) got together in various corners of the country for a roundtable about everything […]
Rockies Series Preview: August 1-3
It’s the time of year when good teams are acquiring talent and bad teams get to euphemize meaningless games by trying to play spoiler. The Rockies still hold the second wild card, so the Mets can at least pretend that these games matter to both participants. Oh also, Amed Rosario is here. WHEN AND WHERE […]
Mets Connections: Colorado Rockies
The following is part of each of the series previews here at BP Mets. “Mets Connections” takes a look at the opposing teams’ rosters and highlights some of the noteworthy or interesting links that can be drawn between those players and the Mets organization. Some of these links may be obvious, such as if an […]
For All You Kids Out There, Episode 65: “Mostly Mets content (but not Mostly Mets)”
In Episode 65 of For All You Kids Out There, we are back in high…well, medium-fidelity to talk about the Mets trade deadline experience. Do you like relievers? Because we are mostly talking about relievers. We also take a closer look at the Sonny Gray and Yu Darvish deals, access the current state of the Mets […]
Duda and Ramos and Reed, oh my!
The thing about prospects is that you just don’t know. You can scout the players and scout the stat line but you never know. Prospects bust and throwaway names turn into the golden boys of baseball. You just never know. With that being said, expectations for the Mets’ trade deadline were probably unrealistically high. The market […]