The 2016 season hasn’t turned out as planned. While Baseball Prospectus still gives the Mets an 11.8 percent chance of making the playoffs (before last night’s game), there are still at least three teams standing in the way of the second Wild Card spot. Couple that with listless play, and things don’t look good. Perhaps […]
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Game recap August 21: Easy peasy lemon squeezy
THE RUNDOWN Yoenis Cespedes’s two-run blast was the only support that Noah Syndergaard needed, as Thor blanked the Giants offense for the 2-0 victory. ALL (BATS) QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Both Jeff Samardzija and Syndergaard came out dealing, setting down the other side in order in each of the first two innings fairly easily. […]
Game recap August 20: Not buying that the Mets are dead
What Happened, In a Sentence: Yoenis Cespedes and Neil Walker showed what the Mets have been missing on their awful road trip, and the Mets win 9-5. Mets Offense Shows Potential Friday night’s 8-1 loss looked like the nail in the coffin of the Mets’ season. Multiple throwing errors, baserunning blunders and a leaky bullpen […]
Game recap August 19: Well hey, at least Seth Lugo looked great
What Happened, In a Sentence: Seth Lugo did everything he could to stave off the Mets’ death spiral, but his teammates ran and threw their way to an 8-1 loss. One Foot Forward… If you missed last night’s game and just saw the score, your first guess would probably be Seth Lugo let the Mets […]
BP Mets Unfiltered: Listing All This Front Office’s (Major) Transactions
The Mets have taken a bit of a beating with their mid-season acquisition of corner outfielder Jay Bruce … and sure, I’ve piled on a bit too. But I wanted to examine whether or not the current front office, as a whole, has done a good job of acquiring major-league talent through trade and/or signing. […]
Who Is The Real Travis d’Arnaud?
When the New York Mets traded for Travis d’Arnaud in 2012 he was hailed as an injury-prone catcher with laudable talent. Now, in August 2016, Travis d’Arnaud is probably best characterized as an injury prone catcher with laudable talent. Because of the injuries, it can be hard to remember that d’Arnaud has already played in […]
Game recap August 18: Ace-off!
In a sentence A pitcher’s duel ended in a 10-7 Giants win, just like we all wrote it up. The good Seven runs! With Neil Walker out for the third straight game with lower back stiffness, Justin Ruggiano’s unlikely grand slam and Ty Kelly’s unlikely two-run triple provided most of the offense against San Francisco […]
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 […]
Is 2016 Ruining The Mets’ 2017?
It’s a weird thing to look at the Mets now, almost like an optical illusion. They are the playoff contender going nowhere. Or the 2017 gazer a hot week away from a wildcard spot. Just let Bartolo Colon be your Rorschach Test. It’s this lack of definition that must make it so difficult to understand […]
Game recap August 17: A ghost tale
WHO WON: Welp, it wasn’t the Mets WHAT HAPPENED, THE SLOW DESCENT INTO OBLIVION THAT IS THE NEW YORK METS: You could argue that a long standing dogma for our favorite Metropolitans is a slow decent into oblivion. A paralyzing, inevitable downward spiral towards inadequacy. We hope for the best, sure, but we also come […]