It’s tricky to rank managers. In his two years with the New York Mets, Carlos Mendoza’s teams have overachieved and underachieved. I believe it’s important for Mendoza’s sake that the Mets get off to a good start. The Mets firing/not retaining so much of his coaching staff after the 2025 debacle sends a signal that he could be next. Here’s hoping Mendoza finds the...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Happy birthday, Kodai Senga! He’s 33. According to my research, that matches the number of decisions in his career (20-13). ESPN and The Athletic both released MLB farm rankings. Kiley McDaniel of ESPN had the Mets at No. 5 and said it was first before New York sent prospects Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat to the Brewers for Freddy Peralta and Tobias Myers. Even...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Hope everyone affected by the storms made out okay. The dust has settled (I think) on the Mets’ offseason. And after all the moves, Anthony Castrovince of MLB.com thinks the Mets are the National League team most likely to beat the Dodgers in the playoffs this year. He likes the defense up the middle, the Freddy Peralta-Nolan McLean one-two punch and notes that the...
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The Mets have an “extremely solid” lineup, better starting pitching than last year and an above-average bullpen, according to ZiPS projections released Thursday on FanGraphs. “Starting with two players, Juan Soto and Francisco Lindor make up for a lot of sins,” wrote Dan Szymborski, who developed the projection system. “But there aren’t really a lot of sins in...
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One day after we took a look at how the starting lineup is shaping up, it’s time to evaluate the rotation. The Mets, in case you missed it, completed a trade for the second night in a row. In between the wheeling and dealing, New York introduced Bo Bichette at a news conference where David Stearns said New York is “never going to stop looking for upgrades.” So after a long...
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