What Happened, In a Sentence: The Mets couldn’t get a hit until the 7th inning and lost 5-3. Unheralded Colin Rea Dominates Padres starter Colin Rea entered Thursday’s game as a slightly above replacement player. He has 0.3 WARP in 59 big league innings and is projected for only 0.4 more wins this season. Rea […]
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The Case For Platooning Lucas Duda
The Mets have faced three lefty starters over the first month of the 2015 season. On April 13th against Adam Conley, Wilmer Flores started at first base and Lucas Duda entered the game in a double switch after Conley departed. On April 26th against Brandon Finnegan, Wilmer Flores started at first base and Lucas Duda […]
Settling the Unsettled at Shortstop and in the Bullpen
Here is a statistic for your consideration: In 2015, Mets shortstops posted the 10th-highest fWAR in baseball. They were, on the whole, more productive than all but nine other teams at that position. Now, consider the qualitative counterpoint: At any point in 2015, did it seem like the Mets were set at shortstop? That the […]
Game recap May 4: Matz breezes, Duda homers (twice!) as Mets take sixth straight series
WHO WON: The blue-hatted, white jersey with blue striped New York Mets WHAT HAPPENED, BRAVES MEET THEIR MATZ: Since giving up 7 runs to the Miami Marlins in his first start of the season, Steven Matz has been phenomenal. Today was no different, as the soon-to-be 25 year old blanked the Atlanta Braves for 7.2 […]
Party like it’s 1999: Will Mets Infielders Be This Year’s MVPs?
Few Mets rosters have been lauded more than the current rotation-heavy group, and with good reason: at 23, Noah Syndergaard leads the Mets with 44 strikeouts, fires a sinker at upwards of 97 MPH, and has thrown more 100 MPH balls than any other pitcher this season. 2014 National League Rookie of the Year Jacob […]
Minor League Mets: April In Review
It hardly seems right that the season’s first month has come and gone, but here we are again looking at May. To be fair, April is the shortest month of the season, as the Mets minor league affiliates combined to play only 87 games in the month. So, lets take stock. What did we learn? … […]
Game Recap May 3: Harvey Loses Battle of Matts
Executive Summary Pitching through a fine mist like the nebulized tears of Mets fans everywhere, Matt Harvey was unable to complete six innings against the worst offense in baseball. Matt Wisler allowed the Mets one hit over eight innings. Braves 3, Mets 0. Discussion and Analysis The question of when Matt Harvey will find what he […]
The Way Way Back: When Will Matt Harvey Find What He Lost?
Matt Harvey had, by any objective measure, his best start of the season the last time he stepped atop a mound. Pitching for the first time this season on his normal four days rest, Harvey held Cincinnati to just two runs in six innings, while striking out seven and walking just one. He threw more […]
Previous April Standouts and Noah Syndergaard’s Future
When the Mets were in the World Series last year against the Royals, Noah Syndergaard was merely their Game 3 starter. As Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller noted on the “Effectively Wild” podcast, that fact is incredible to consider at this point (with all due respect to Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom); “Thor” has certainly […]
Game recap May 2: Bart blanks the Braves
The first time Bartolo Colon faced the Atlanta Braves was 14 years ago on July 2, 2002, when he was with the Montreal Expos. That was his National League debut, and, despite facing a lineup that included menacing sluggers like Chipper Jones, Andruw Jones, Gary Sheffield and Javy Lopez, the 29-year-old threw seven innings of […]