The Mets had the highest projected playoff chances of any NL East team on April 13, when PECOTA expected Terry Collins’ bunch to make the playoffs over three-quarters of the time and finish with 88.5 wins. By April 18, the Mets had lost 15 percentage points off their playoff probability and the Nationals had become […]
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Game Recap August 29: FML
Since August 26, we’ve recapped RIP, TKO and BOGO here at BP Mets. I’m pretty sure FML is the next acronym in the sequence. (It was either that or GIGO.) The Mets’ week started with the unpleasant news that David Wright couldn’t play one rehab game without suffering so much pain that he had to shut […]
Game Recap August 22: Nothing to see here
Mets News So this happened The Captain is in the lineup! #STLMets #Mets #LGM pic.twitter.com/GXrS7mNRlW — St. Lucie Mets (@stluciemets) August 22, 2017 And also this happened Mets gonna have a new lineup. Conforto has a thumb issue of some kind. — Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) August 22, 2017 All in all, a typical Mets news […]
No-Han, Five Years Later: Where Are They Now?
Today, we celebrate the five-year anniversary of one of the most unforgettable moments in New York Mets history. On June 1, 2012, Johan Santana threw the first no-hitter in franchise history, 51 years and 8,020 games into the team’s existence. The entire game was a heart-stopping thrill ride, and one of the most incredible and […]
Yoenis Cespedes and the statistically inevitable injury
Now that we have a 10-day disabled list, some teams have been very proactive about using it. A player needs at least three days to recover? Take 10! After all, it’s early in the season. Better for players to take it early now instead of trying to play through an injury and making it worse. […]
Game recap April 10: 24 Amazin’ Hours With Jacob deGrom and Jay Bruce
Last night, the Mets defeated the Philadelphia Phillies by a score of 4-3 at Citizens Bank Park. We’ll take you from Sunday night to Monday night. Sunday 10:45 p.m.: In their Sunday Night Baseball matchup on ESPN, the Mets defeated the Marlins by a score of 5 to 2. Noah Syndergaard pitched 7 exceptional innings […]
Statistically Projecting Mets Position Player Injuries for 2017 (Part 1)
After the 2010 season, Jeff Zimmerman posted a series of articles on FanGraphs using regression models to try and predict the probability that a starting pitcher would get injured. It makes a lot of sense that he’d focus on pitchers. After all, the saying is “pitchers break.” Yet for the 2016 Mets, “everyone breaks” may […]
David Wright Doesn’t Owe Anyone His Retirement
David Wright’s playing career is probably over. Say it enough times and with enough conviction and eventually you’ll believe it. Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work? We’ve known this since July 2015, when he was diagnosed with spinal stenosis. Or June, when he underwent neck surgery for a herniated disc. At the very least […]
I Don’t Know Is On Third
Don’t get me wrong—I want David Wright back come springtime. I want that Captain magic back, on and off the field; I want, for him as a human to be healed and not in pain. And I want the Mets to be good. Remember 2013 David Wright?—.307/.390/.514—that was so fun! Hell, even 38-game 2015 David […]
Everyone Had Surgery
Well that was brutal, if not entirely unexpected. The Mets made a great push toward the playoffs this year, but in the end, there was a bit too much to overcome. Now the real work begins. While the MLB’s other top teams wear themselves out this postseason the Mets can take advantage of the time […]