David Wright’s playing career is probably over. Say it enough times and with enough conviction and eventually you’ll believe it. Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work? We’ve known this since July 2015, when he was diagnosed with spinal stenosis. Or June, when he underwent neck surgery for a herniated disc. At the very least […]
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I Can’t Get No Relief
Meet the 2017 New York Mets! They’re pretty much the same as the 2016 Mets, minus Bartolo Colon and a few guys filling out the bottom of the roster. An unusually stable offseason saw the Mets re-sign most of their own key free agents, and not acquire a single player on a MLB contract who […]
Five Baseball Games, Seven Synonyms for God, and Nine Innings
(Editor’s Note: Please welcome playwright and Mets fan Sergei Burbank to Baseball Prospectus – Mets. I think you’re going to like having him around.) Living in Two Dimensions Historically — in direct contrast to most other cities — New York has at times put those it wants to ignore on the water’s edge. Brighton Beach, […]
New York’s Best Real-Life Fantasy Options
When I was a kid, a unique combination of dread and excitement overtook my house each year in early March, culminating in a strange and wonderful night: my dad’s fantasy baseball draft. The lead up involved my dad spending weekend hours on the phone strategizing with his younger brother (and co-manager), which I’m sure annoyed […]
What Would Not Surprise Us About the 2017 Mets
Way way back many centuries ago, not long after the blogging began, Will Leitch started a site called Deadspin. He relied upon tips from the common man. Will’s vision for Deadspin was to publish sports news that never made it into the public domain “because of either corporate obligations or just plain laziness.” Deadspin needed […]
Ten Prospects We Want to See in 2017
Over on the main site, the BP prospect team runs themed Monday Morning Ten Packs this time of year, picking 10 prospects who fulfill some criteria or another. Our BP Mets prospect team of Jeffrey, Skyler, and I decided to blatantly rip this off and write a “ten pack”-style article on the ten Mets prospects […]
From BP: Monday Morning Ten Pack – The Next Top 101 Prospects
Over at the Baseball Prospectus main site, there’s a snippet of Mets content for the die-hard prospect watchers. The BP prospect team breaks down 10 players who could pop up on the Top 101 next year, and that list includes Mets first-round pick Justin Dunn. Jarrett Seidler writes it up: Honestly, Dunn would’ve fit in last […]
T-D-A and P-E-C-O-T-A
Ask any Mets-watcher at the end of last season, and they might’ve told you that the team’s Achilles heel was the catcher position. Not only has Kevin Plawecki played his way from top prospect to offensive cipher, but the (original) centerpiece of the famous R.A. Dickey trade completely cratered after a breakout-but-shortened 2015 surge. Travis d’Arnaud […]
The Improbable Prospect List Rise of Robert Gsellman
You may have been surprised to see Robert Gsellman, erstwhile Jacob deGrom clone—seriously, have you seen how much the two look alike with deGrom’s new heel beard?—and contender for the Met fifth starter position, pop up in the top handful of pitching prospects in baseball in the recently released Baseball Prospectus 101. On the other […]
Five “Forgotten” Mets: Where Are They Now?
A week ago, a certain app on my phone reminded me that eight years ago I was waitlisted and subsequently rejected from Binghamton University. While reminding me of all my college rejections–and few acceptances–it also brought memories of when I was visiting Binghamton and got to go see the Binghamton Mets (now the Rumble Ponies) […]