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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The Mets added a Gold Glove outfielder (run prevention!) and, with Luis Robert Jr. in the fold, let’s take a look at the state of the everyday lineup exactly one month before the spring training opener. Robert will patrol center field, where he was seven outs above average (93rd percentile) in 110 games for Chicago in 2025. If the Mets go with Tyrone Taylor in left, they will cover a ton...
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All signs point to Carlos Beltrán getting the call from Cooperstown when the Hall of Fame ballot results are announced Tuesday, according to Ryan Thibodaux, who tracks every ballot made public before the vote totals are revealed. Beltran, in his fourth year of eligibility, is on 89.1 percent of the 208 ballots tracked as of 12 p.m. ET Monday. It is estimated that 424 ballots will be cast,...
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