Two runs in the 7th inning off Garrett Olson led to a extra inning affair for the Buffalo Bisons and a late run off CJ Nitkowski in the 12th inning led to defeat as the Bisons fell 4-3 to Scranton Thursday night in Buffalo. The Bisons scored an early run in the 1st inning with a leadoff double for Fred Lewis and an RBI single for Brad Emaus to score Lewis and give Buffalo a [...]

St. Lucie 8, Jupiter 1 Jupiter 9, St. Lucie 0 In a double header, St. Lucie took the first handedly, but lost in epic fashion in the second game Key Players Alonzo Harris – 3 for 7, 4 stolen bases, 2 strikeouts Cesar Puello – 2 for 5, solo home run, 1 stolen base, 2 strikeouts Aderlin Rodriguez – 4 for 6, 2 home runs, 3 RBI, 3 runs scored, 1 strikeout Angel Cuan – [...]

The Binghamton Mets and Portland Sea Dogs pounded out a total of thirty one hits and scored twenty three runs between the two teams in game one of their four games series at Hadlock Field on Thursday night.  In the end the B-Mets were on the losing end of a fourteen to nine decision. Binghamton starter Cory Mazzoni lasted all of three innings in the game, making his shortest appearance as a B-Met in 2012.  [...]

Friday, August 24, 2012 • 7:10 p.m. Citi Field • Flushing, NY LHP Jordan Lyles (2-10, 5.70) vs. LHP Jon Niese (10-6, 3.49) Starting Lineup Ruben Tejada – SS Mike Baxter – RF David Wright – 3B Ike Davis – 1B Justin Turner – 2B Jordany Valdespin – LF Andres Torres – CF Josh Thole – C Jon Niese – P Well that last series wasn’t fun. There have only been two teams worse than [...]

How could anybody be anything but enthused about the Mets for 2013? With GA Sandy Alderson telling us the budget hasn’t been set but don’t expect it to be much higher than it is now. Then he said trades might be the way to go. But, if the Mets aren’t willing to part with Matt Harvey or Zach Wheeler, will they purge the rest of their farm system? History says it isn’t likely. A quick glance [...]

This is why we’ve been downplaying all these insane notions of bringing up Zack Wheeler in the last few months. As I said before, Collin McHugh is more deserving and more polished, and his debut today has validated everything we’ve been saying about him all season long. McHugh won’t figure into the decision, but his performance today was definitely deserving of a win as the young righthander tossed seven scoreless innings and allowed two hits, [...]

The rubber match and final game of the season between the Binghamton Mets and New Hampshire Fisher Cats went the way of the home team as the B-Mets won by a score of six to three. Binghamton jumped out to the early three run lead before watching the Fisher Cats claw their way back into the game.  After four innings the two teams were tied at three before the B-Mets scored single runs in the [...]

It’s a fact: Every team experiences some sort of injuries over the course of a 162-game season. For some reason however, it always seems the Mets are plagued with the injury bug more so than other teams. This year was no different, as Mike Pelfrey went down early, Ruben Tejada missed time and now Johan Santana has been shut down. But an injury that was overlooked in the big picture that has had a crippling [...]

Jupiter 7, St. Lucie 5 (G1)/ Game 2 PPD Jupiter took the only game that was played on the day, despite the expected double-header Key Players Blake Forsythe – 2 for 3, solo home run, 2 runs scored, 1 walk, 1 strikeout Cesar Puello -2 for 4, 1 double, 1 run, 1 RBI, 1 strikeout, 1 stolen base Darrell Ceciliani – 3 for 4, 1 run scored, 1 strikeout in first game back from DL [...]

There’s an old baseball adage kicking around regarding player development. It’s a basic rule of thumb that, assuming a player ever navigates the minors and makes it to the major leagues, it should take a hitter roughly 1500 minor league at-bats before he is equipt to handle the David Price’s and Johnny Cueto’s of the world. For pitchers, the same rule applies also. That it would take 500 minor league innings or thereabouts, for a [...]