The 2007 Mets collapsed, didn’t they? The team had a seven-game division lead on September 12, but after they lost 12 of the final 17 games of the season, the Mets ended up a game behind the division-winning Phillies and didn’t play in October. For a team that was in first place for 159 days […]
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Believe It Or Not, The Mets Are Contenders Now
Consider this for a moment: The Mets are contenders. They are viable, certifiable World Series contenders. This seems odd for so many reasons. It is a burden the organization has not held in a while. Self-loathing from the fanbase (“LOLMets” anyone?) and stumbling and bumbling from the parts of the team that actually decided the results had […]
Mrs. Met Won’t Get Us Out of This One: Discrimination, Rule Changes, and the Future of Baseball Fandom
Opening Day is fast upon us and MLB rule tweaks abound. This year MLB continued to tackle the safety of its players and the speed of the game in a set of new rules released last month. One revamp near and dear to Mets fans’ hearts involves tighter guidelines for sliding into second base. The […]
A Mightier Thor
A year is a long time in baseball. A year ago PECOTA projected the Royals to win 72 games. Clayton Kershaw was the best pitcher in baseball. Mike Trout was the best player in baseball. Okay, so maybe it’s not that long. At first glance, Noah Syndergaard, the young Met pitcher nicknamed “Thor,” didn’t change […]
The Unbearable, Irrepressible Hope of Opening Day
If coming out to Opening Day is the purest and most exhilarating form of unsullied optimism, then I’ve mainlined raw, uncut Mets hope exactly twice in my life. The first was in 1993, when my father and I drove the two-plus hours from northeastern Pennsylvania into Queens … and I remember this day well because […]
Welcome to BP Mets!
Here we are, in a place I never expected to be. The Mets are again the class of the National League East (sorry, Nationals!), the vibe for 2016 is strangely hopeful, and today we’re launching a new site dedicated to smart, savvy coverage of New York’s second-favorite baseball team. Welcome to Baseball Prospectus – Mets! […]
The Ghosts That The 2015 Mets Exorcised
Call me melancholic—or at least nostalgic—but during some days I feel the ghosts in everything. I see them in kites hung in trees and sneakers thrown over power lines. I hear them in bands long broken up and lead singers long passed. And since I think about baseball all the time, I find them in […]
Our Favorite Non-Stars
I think that perhaps the best way to introduce you to the staff here at BP – Mets is to let our staff members tell you a little bit about their favorite Mets. But it’s too easy to talk about Doc Gooden and David Wright and Tom Seaver. No, it’s much more interesting to talk […]