I’ve lived in my Los Angeles neighborhood for 10 years, and this spring was the first time I saw anyone wearing a Cubs hat. It’s not like there’s a ton of Dodgers loyalty in my neighborhood either. Mets apparel was actually the second most common until suddenly people are hopping on the Cubs bandwagon. With […]
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Mets Connections: Chicago Cubs
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 […]
Game recap June 11: The Comeback Kid 2
WHO WON: The Mets, again! WHAT HAPPENED, SOME STARTERS HAVE EMERGED: Just like we all thought coming into this season, the Mets have had a string of good starting pitching performances. Only it’s weird, right? Zack Wheeler has been one of the few reliable starters since the beginning of May. Robert Gsellman has been much […]
Game recap June 10 (Game 2): The Comeback Kid
When Noah Syndergaard went down with his lat injury, the Mets knew that eventually Steven Matz and Seth Lugo should be ready to pick up the slack. In the meantime, they tried Rafael Monetro, Tommy Milone, and Tyler Pill. It must have been awfully tempting to rush Matz back to plug a hole in the […]
Game recap June 10 (Game 1): Yo comes home
This season, if not all of the other seasons before, has taught us that a win is a win and a loss is a loss. The most painful collapses and the most heartwarming walkoffs all look like ones and zeros at the end of the season. Of course, that’s easier said than done. A 6-1 […]
Game recap June 9: A new way to disappoint
Primer The Mets opened up a four-game series in Atlanta facing Julio Teheran for the fourth time this season. Teheran was fantastic against the Mets on Opening Day, mediocre against them later in April, and got shellacked on May 1. Teheran has been particularly bad in the Braves’ new bandbox of a ballpark, with an […]
Braves Series Preview June 9-11
Losers of five of seven after splitting a pair in Arlington, the scuffling Mets visit Atlanta’s new ballpark for the second time this season to play a four-game weekend set that includes a split-admission twin-bill on Saturday. Owners of the second-worst earned run average in the majors, a once-promising set of arms that has drawn […]
Notes from the Field: Columbia Fireflies
After already writing up Thomas Szapucki, there are plenty of other interesting and less interesting prospects that I could write up from the Columbia Fireflies. However, I’m not going to go over again the same prospects that Jeffrey wrote up last month when he saw this same Columbia team. I could tell you again how […]
Jay Bruce and the journey to find his old self
In March, James Wagner of the New York Times published an article detailing Jay Bruce’s quest to better understand why he struggled when he first joined the New York Mets last August. Bruce was supposed to help the Mets down the stretch when he was acquired on August 1 from the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for Dilson […]
Notes from the Field: Thomas Szapucki’s 2017 Debut
After entering this season as a top 100 prospect and one of the top three prospects in the New York Mets system, Thomas Szapucki did not throw a pitch in an official game through the first two months of the 2017 season due to a shoulder impingement. On a pre-scheduled trip to Hagerstown during the […]