Kelly Johnson was a perfectly fine utility player for the 2015 Mets, coming along in a minor midseason trade with the Braves. He got 138 plate appearances down the stretch and put up a .271 True Average, making him a little bit better than a league-average hitter. He played all four infield and both corner […]
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Game Recap June 8: Mets Finally Get Bats Going, Spoil Jameson Taillon’s Debut
TL;DR The Mets spoiled Jameson Taillon’s major league debut–sort of–by winning a hard-fought victory over the Pirates. New York won 6-5, actually scored more than a run, and prevented the Bucs from sweeping the series behind a good-but-not-great pitching performance from Noah Syndergaard. The Big Finish It’s apparently a thing: every recap I’ve written for this […]
My Grandma Likes Ty Kelly, and You Should, Too
“Ty” is a good name for a baseball player. Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb, for example—American League Batting Title winner for twelve straight years from 1907-1919, and still holding the all-time record for career batting average at .366. Ty Wigginton, hitting .302/.354/.526 in his first year in the majors, as a Met, and a […]
Game Recap June 7 (Game 2): Mets Can’t Hit, Story at 11
Executive Summary After scoring just a single run in the first game of the doubleheader, the Mets duplicated the dubious feat, striking out 14 times in game two. Pirates 3, Mets 1. Discussion and Analysis Without David Wright, Travis d’Arnaud and Lucas Duda, the Mets’ offense has been bad. HOW BAD IS IT? In the 16 games since May […]
Game recap June 7 (Game 1): Neil Walker’s homecoming spoiled by Jon Niese (and no offense, but it’s more fun to blame Niese)
What Happened, In One Sentence: Jonathon Niese got his revenge against the Mets with seven shutout innings as the Mets lost 3-1. Niese Rolls Over Struggling Mets Lineup When the Mets traded Niese away after last season, he went out of his way to criticize the Mets infield. Sure, the Mets allowed 12 unearned runs […]
On Expectations
I will admit that I haven’t exactly paid the closest amount of attention to the happenings within Citi Field this season. I have a major side-project underway that keeps my focus diverted not only away from the Mets but from all of baseball for certain stretches of time. Then comes time to play speed-round catch-up, […]
The Top Five Best “Deep” Draft Picks In Mets History
Some of the most entertaining prospects are the ones least expected to succeed. It’s obviously fun to see consensus top picks like Darryl Strawberry and David Wright bloom, but occasionally, those late draft picks are the ones who end up making a difference. Mike Piazza was famously a 62rd rounder by the Dodgers, for instance. […]
The 1986 Mets and the Twitter Present
The Mets are taking advantage of the 30-year anniversary of the 1986 World Series team. In addition to wearing 1986 throwback uniforms on Sunday home games, the team is holding pre-game celebrations throughout the year. One promotion took place a few weeks ago on the radio. On May 26, WOR re-broadcast Game 6 of the […]
Who We Believe Will Be on the 25-Man Roster Come August… But Isn’t Now
Travis d’Arnaud: rotator cuff inflammation. Lucas Duda: lower back stress fracture. David Wright: frogs, boils, locusts, darkness for three days. Not only are the Mets down three position players, they’re missing arguably their three most important ones. After all, Juan Lagares is a rather studly fourth outfielder. But the team’s infield depth was such a weakness entering […]
Game recap June 5: Matt Harvey was good but Jose Fernandez was better
THE RUNDOWN The two young righties duked it out on Sunday, but as good as Matt Harvey was, Jose Fernandez and his 14 strikeouts edged him out for the 1-0 Marlins victory. PITCHERS’ DUEL In a sign of what was to come, Fernandez struck out Alejandro De Aza to start off the game, the first […]