Monday, September 17, 2012 • 7:10 PM Citi Field • Flushing, NY LHP Cliff Lee (5-7, 3.36) vs. RHP R.A. Dickey (18-5, 2.68) Starting Lineup Ruben Tejada, ss Daniel Murphy, 2b David Wright, 3b Scott Hairston, rf Lucas Duda, 1b Jason Bay, lf Andres Torres, cf Mike Nickeas, c R.A. Dickey, rhp The Mets and Phillies start a series tonight as the Mets look to play spoiler for the suddenly resurgent Phillies. If you have [...]

In just the third start of Wily Peralta’s young career, the Mets were completely baffled and continued to struggle offensively as they dropped this one to the Brewers 3-0. Chris Young got the nod for Amazin’s and put together a solid effort, despite allowing home runs to both Ryan Braun and Aramis Ramirez in the fourth and a second bomb to the reigning NL MVP in the sixth. Young finished with a final line of [...]

Updated Post 9/16 Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News writes this morning: It’s been hush-hush until now because of the rules of the minor and major leagues, but the window for MLB clubs to talk to potential new minor-league affiliates officially opened today — and the Bisons and Toronto Blue Jays are now working on the game’s worst-kept secret. Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos confirmed to Toronto reporters this morning that the team is [...]

Just a quick thought on something Adma Rubin just tweeted about Ike Davis: If you look at David Wright’s OPS which is a team leading .895 and also top ten in the NL, you would think he’d be infinitely ahead of Ike Davis in the RBI department considering Davis has just a .754 OPS. That’s a difference of almost 150 points. Wright’s On-Base Percentage is over 100 points higher than Ike’s which stands at what [...]

B.J Upton is going to be one busy and popular player this winter. The enigmatic former #2 overall pick in the 2002 draft has done some impressive things in his career, but most view his career as disappointing when compared to his incredible all-around talent and tools. “He’s in the top 10 of center fielders in the game,” an American League executive said. “That’s pretty good. But people were probably expecting him to be in [...]

The last few times a post appeared on MMO about Mike Francesa, it was about him ripping the Mets front office, or the team, or the owners. Less than two weeks ago, Francesa called the Mets offense pathetic. He said the Mets’ offense looked like they were asleep. He even went as far as accusing them of quitting on Terry Collins. What goes around, comes around. In stunning fashion, Francesa fell asleep on the air [...]

The Mets (66-79) lost to the Brewers (73-72) by the score of 9-6 on Saturday evening at Miller Park.  When you throw 68 pitches over 3+ innings of work and you struggle to find the strike zone, it is a definite recipe for disaster. All eyes were on Jenrry Meija in Milwaukee, where he was making his first start in exactly two years – since injuring himself on this day in 2010. He struggled to throw strikes, [...]

In Doug’s Dugout today we discuss a surefire way to fix the Mets going forward without one single player transaction. Now that I’ve grabbed your attention, how in the world are the Mets going to improve without a blockbuster trade, jettisoning dead wood like Jason Bay, or eschewing the free-agent meat market? Read on… The answer lies in the abysmal second half record. Play every game next season away from Citi Field, now dubbed, “The [...]

Here’s a clip from SNY of Kevin Burkhardt interviewing Wally Backman who is now part of the Mets coaching staff since the minor league season ended. The subject is Mets rookie Matt Harvey who Backman says he’s never seen him pitch like this when he was at Triple-A Buffalo, and he wonders if Harvey was just bored in the minors and probably not going full tilt. Have a look and you decide.  It’s an interesting [...]

Saturday, September 15, 2012 • 7:10 PM Miller Park • Milwaukee, WI RHP Jenrry Mejia (0-0, 4.50) vs. RHP Shaun Marcum (5-4, 3.71) Starting Lineup Ruben Tejada – SS Daniel Murphy – 2B David Wright – 3B Ike Davis – 1B Lucas Duda – LF Jordany Valdespin – RF Kelly Shoppach – C Andres Torres – CF Jenrry Mejia – RHP The Mets look to keep last night’s success going as they take on the [...]

It will be two years to the day since the last time Jenrry Mejia started a game for the New York Mets back on September 15, 2010. In that game, his third of that season after working mostly in relief, Mejia was removed in the middle of an at-bat in the third inning with a 2-0 count on Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates. “I saw something was wrong,” catcher Henry Blanco said. “I went out [...]