Author: John Bernhardt

Bunting Is Making A Comeback

In the yesteryear of baseball, bunting was an art form. Every bunt type employed by a batter bunting the ball; the sacrifice, the squeeze, the drop bunt or drag bunt were part of the arsenal a batter brought to the plate. The advent of baseball’s sabermetric era and the analytics it provides have almost delegated bunting to the scrap heap of baseball strategies. Analytics and their expected run...

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After Spinning A Gem, Gorski Promoted To Triple-A Las Vegas

May 28 As we speculated yesterday in the below article, lefthander Darin Gorski has been promoted to Triple-A Las Vegas. It’s perfect timing for the 26-year-old, coming off his most dominating start of the season. Gorski had a 2.22 ERA for Binghamton with a 1.006 WHIP and a 9.2 strikeout rate. Congratulations Darin! May 27 I try to see every home game that Darin Gorski pitches in and it’s...

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More Mets Static

It was almost miraculous. I turned on WOR coming home from watching Darin Gorski throw a masterful two-hit, complete game in Binghamton and the reception was crystal clear. Learning Jacob deGrom had left the game with a 2-0 lead I was elated. First Rafael Montero’s 10 strikeout performance and now deGrom, both pitching like the frontline starters we hope they will be in back-to-back days....

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Does Management Understand Who The Mets Are And What They Can Be?

I’m not convinced the Mets really understand their strength and potential as a baseball team. Everybody talks about the Met pitching potential and the fact our current team and our teams in the future are and will be built around pitching. I love that fact. But, I’ve always been told that teams built around pitching need to be strong defensively, especially down the middle of the field....

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Memo To Terry Collins: Never Take On Your Fan Base

Terry Collins take heed: NEVER TAKE ON YOUR FANS! The Collins reaction to Met fans reaction to his benching of Juan Lagares will not serve TC well. A manager never wins when he takes on his team’s fan base. And, many times doing so is an ominous sign. In the business world it’s called ‘the customer is always right.’ In professional sports, a baseball manager has to know his fan base is often...

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