Around the trade deadline, numerous names are bandied about by everyone around baseball. It might take a haul, but big names like Andrew Miller and Wil Myers could be dealt at just about any time, with notable prospects moving on to different organizations. However, deadline deals don’t affect one season alone. The repercussions reverberate for […]
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DeGrom Just Keeps On Keepin’ On
Jacob deGrom pitched an absolute gem of a game on Sunday afternoon in Philly. It was his first career complete game in 68 MLB starts, featuring his best stuff (by far) since Game 1 of last year’s NLDS. If we’re going by his Game Score of 91, it was also one of the best Mets […]
Game recap July 18: Wilmer Flores can’t do it all on his own
In a sentence: Steven Matz struggled through five innings and Wilmer Flores provided the only offense as the Mets fell 5-1 to the Cubs. The good: Flores continues to tee off against Jon Lester as the utility man (is that what we’re calling him now?) went 2 for 4 including a home run. Flores is now hitting […]
Our Second-Half Predictions
We offered some #HotTakes back in April, some of which look prescient: David Wright will not start the Mets’ 2016 playoff games (he’s out for the season, if you’ve been under a rock) The 2016 team breaks the franchise record (200) for dingers (they’re 63% of the way there, having played 56% of their games) Addison […]
Game recap July 17: deGrominant
THE RUNDOWN It was all Jacob deGrom, all day, as the ace pitched a one-hit shutout to claim the series for the Mets. SOLID JOB OF HITTING Coming off of hard-fought wins against the Cubs and the Marlins, baseball’s best and seventh-best offenses by TAv, respectively, deGrom could breathe a sigh of relief facing the […]
Game recap July 16: Don’t hit, don’t score, what do you do?
What Happened, in a Sentence: The Phillies did a better job manufacturing runs, beating the Mets 4-2. Verrett Avoids Big Mistakes Saturday was Logan Verrett’s second attempt to replace Matt Harvey’s spot in the rotation. As I wrote last week, the first attempt didn’t go so well. Verrett entered the game walking 11.1 percent of […]
For All You Kids Out There, Episode 11: “This podcast left intentionally blank”
It’s all-star week here on For All You Kids Out There (and we imagine elsewhere in the baseball world as well), so you’d think there wouldn’t be much to talk about. You might be new here, it’s only Episode 11 after all, so we assure you, there is always too much to talk about on […]
Game recap July 15: Bartolo Colon’s not perfect, but he’s perfect for us
Fresh off a trip to the All-Star Game (though he didn’t appear in the game), Bartolo Colon started the Mets second-half opener, opposed by Jeremy Hellickson and the Phillies. Yoenis Cespedes remained out of the lineup with a quad injury, so Juan Lagares got a rare start in center field against a right-handed starting pitcher. […]
Conforto and the Clock
We talk a lot about service time now. Over the past few years, a select group of teams have gotten very aggressive about call-up and demotion timing to “game” service time, to maximize both the six accrued major league seasons before a player can hit free agency and the two to three years where teams […]
MLB.tv’s Regional Changes, and Watching the Mets in L.A.
As a Mets fan living in Los Angeles, it’s normally pretty easy for me to watch Mets games through MLB.tv. It’s not like I live in Las Vegas or Iowa, where six separate teams have claimed local broadcasting rights. I will only get a local blackout if the Mets are playing the Dodgers or Angels. […]