The Florida State League announced that St. Lucie Mets pitcher Tyler Pill has been selected as the Topps Player of the Month for July. Pill went 5-0 with a 1.55 ERA in July.  In five starts, he struck out 28 and walked seven in 29 innings while allowing just five earned runs and 21 hits. Pill won five consecutive games in July and allowed just one earned run in all five starts.  He gave up four hits [...]

Updated Post 2:50 PM Terry Collins said that Johan Santana is expected to throw 90 pitches against the Braves on Saturday night at Citi Field. Santana’s is making his first start in the majors since July 20, when he surrendered six-plus runs for the third straight start and officially landed on the DL with a right-ankle sprain. Team officials believe the ankle injury caused Santana to tax his shoulder and led to fatigue. Collins said Santana [...]

The idea has been beaten to death: The Mets bullpen is the worst in baseball and has been the major reason for the team’s skid to open the second half. But looking a little deeper, it may not totally be the bullpen’s fault. In fact, the pen, mainly Jon Rauch, Josh Edgin and even Manny Acosta since being recalled, has actually been somewhat decent recently. Granted, the bullpen certainly has contributed to the second-half slide, [...]

A wild pitch by Fernando Cabrera with the bases loaded and two outs led to Lehigh Valley getting the victory over Buffalo 5-4 in 12 innings Wednesday night. Jeurys Familia started the game for the Bisons and pitched much better than his previous two outings for Buffalo. Familia threw six innings, allowing five hits, four runs, although only one earned due to errors, with two walks and most importantly seven strike outs. This performance was [...]

Palm Beach 4, St. Lucie 2 Angel Cuan had a short, unspectacular outing and St. Lucie lost to Palm Beach, 4-2. Key Players: Alonzo Harris – 0 for 3, 1 run scored, 1 walk, 1 stolen base, 1 strikeout Travis Taijeron – 0 for 3 – Batting average is down to .190 Aderlin Rodriguez – 1 for 4, 2-run home run, 1 strikeout, 6th error of season Angel Cuan – 4 IP, 8 hits allowed, [...]

Note: This interview was conducted on July 3rd, so references to the game from the night before were actually the game on July 2nd. Petey:  I am talking today with NY Mets 2012 1st-round sandwich pick, catcher Kevin Plawecki of the Brooklyn Cyclones. Kevin how does it feel to be in your first season in professional baseball with the Mets organization, and what do you think of the New York Penn League? Kevin:  It’s great [...]

Behind a five run second inning the Binghamton Mets were able to take game three of their series against the New Britain Rock Cats by a final tally of eight to three.  In that inning the B-Mets raked out four hits capped off by Jefry Marte’s ninth home run of the season, a three run shot over the left field wall.  The hit total in the second inning was half of the overall number of [...]

Chris Young had by far his worst outing of the season, and a struggling bullpen as well as a lack of offense sealed the Mets fate in their 13-0 loss on Wednesday Game Recap Chris Young was absolutely obliterated today, going four and one-third innings allowing seven runs on seven hits with three home runs in his outing. Young walked three and fanned four, but Young just didn’t have it today and the free-swinging Marlins [...]

Updated Post 8/9 According to Adam Rubin of ESPN New York, Terry Collins said he no longer plans to use R.A. Dickey on short rest through the remainder of the season. Collins intends to use Jeremy Hefner in the rotation if he needs to give a starting pitcher extra rest, but will continue to use Dickey in his normal turn through the rotation. Updated Post 8/3 Terry Collins told reporters before the game that he does not [...]

METS AT HOME: The Mets lost their ninth straight game at Citi Field, the club’s longest home losing streak since losing nine straight at home from August 28-September 12, 2004…The nine-game home losing streak is tied for the sixth-longest in team history…The Mets last won a game at Citi Field on July 7, a 3-1 victory over the Cubs. SHUTOUTS: Losing 13-0 to Miami tonight was the second-most lopsided shutout at home in team history…The Mets lost [...]