As Baseball Prospectus co-founder and current Newsletter/Sports Illustrated writer Joe Sheehan says, there’s little point in analyzing a baseball season until you’ve seen 40 games. At that point in the 2016 season, Mets fans would have cried to learn they’d be 1.5 games behind the tanking Phillies. Yet, four games above .500 and only 2.5 games out of first […]
Tag: Lucas Duda
Game recap May 20: Conforto’s blast seals Matz’s strong start
MATZ CRUISES AFTER EARLY BUMP IN THE ROAD: Steven Matz quickly fell behind the Milwaukee Brewers’ lineup in the first, despite flashing a lively mid 90s fastball and a curveball with nice shape. Jonathan Villar singled on a dribbler past Neil Walker, and advanced to third on some exceptional reads on breaking pitches. A sinker […]
Game Recap May 17: Behind Blue Eyes
Executive Summary On the anniversary of Noah Syndergaard’s Citi Field debut, Thor bettered Max Scherzer and made two solo shots stand up. Mets 2, Nationals 0. Discussion and Analysis Noah Syndergaard’s dominating performance last night overshadowed: Max Scherzer’s next start after striking out 20 Tigers Daniel Murphy’s return to his old stomping ground Bryce Harper’s first […]
Game recap May 14: Verrett snaps successful spot-start streak
What Happened, In One Sentence The Rockies scored four runs after a blown call at home plate in the third, winning 7-4. Reversal of Coors Field Fortune for Verrett Logan Verrett was spectacular in a spot start at Coors Field last year, striking out eight while only giving up one run in eight innings of […]
Game recap May 11: Syndergaard hits two homers in Mets 4-3 win
Noah Syndergaard and home runs were the story last night in Los Angeles. Entering the game, Syndergaard had only given up one home run in 38.1 innings pitched. However, Thor gave up two home runs on Wednesday night — solo shots by Corey Seager and Yasmani Grandal. Wait — that’s not the home run story. Syndergaard and […]
Game recap May 9: Steven Matz is still good, the Mets are still hitting home runs
It was a matchup of southpaws on Monday night in Los Angeles, as the Mets sent Steven Matz to the mound to face Scott Kazmir in their first showdown since the controversial 2015 NLDS. Neither pitcher was on the absolute top of his game, but the Mets were able to take advantage of a couple mistakes from Kazmir […]
Game recap May 6: Oh offense, where art thou?
Coming off his first rough start of the season, Noah Syndergaard squared off against Padres lefty Drew Pomeranz on Friday. Thor came into the game leading the league in FIP by a healthy margin (1.41, .38 lower than Stephen Strasburg) despite surrendering four runs to the Giants last time out. Pomeranz meanwhile, seems to finally be […]
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 […]
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 […]