We’re one third of the way through the baseball season. After their extra inning victory on June 1st, the Mets were on a pace for 78 wins, yet still very much in the playoff hunt. The team stood only four games out of the Division lead and 2.5 games out of the Wildcard. Baseball Prospectus updated their postseason probabilities on MLB.com – and as of May 31st, the Mets had only an...
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When Sandy Alderson made his 90 win challenge earlier this year, the inference was to make the playoffs. Getting 90 wins almost assuredly gets you into the playoffs. Over the past 10 seasons, there have been 80 teams that have reached that 90 win mark. Under the current playoff format with two wildcard teams, 78 of those 80 teams would have been in the postseason. That’s a 97.5% clip. The...
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“This team is now about being successful. This is about concrete expectations about what we need to do. The 90 wins is about challenge.” – Sandy Alderson There are still 113 games left in the 2014 season, and while the Mets are only five games under .500 with a 22-27 record and sitting six games out of the National League East division lead and four and a half games out of the...
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We’re just a little past the quarter mark of the 2014 season and the true makeup of the team is starting to emerge. There really aren’t a tremendous amount of surprises so far, but many of the questions we mulled over during the previous hot stove season are now coming into play. 2014 was supposed to be the year that the Mets would return to sustainable dominance in the NL East and...
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Who’s Hot: Akeel Morris – Savannah The 21 year old right-hander from the Virgin Islands has been practically unhittable this past week and has been absolutely dominating hitters in the South Atlantic League. For the week of May 7th-13th, he made two appearances out of the pen, pitching 4.1 innings, allowing two hits, no walks and striking out nine batters. In 20.2 innings for Savannah this...
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