Mickey Callaway has made it pretty clear that he wants his best hitter hitting second. Many teams have been doing this. The Dodgers, Cubs, Blue Jays, Reds, and Yankees did this in 2017. You’ll probably point out the Astros were not on that list. When you have Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, George Springer, and Alex Bregman, it does not matter what order you hit them in. The first reason that...
Read More
The New York Mets were defeated by the Miami Marlins on Wednesday afternoon by a score of 5-1 at Roger Dean Stadium. Pitching Steven Matz started off bad in this game. He gave up two runs in a 33 pitch first inning. After that, Matz settled in and faced one over the minimum over the rest of his start and struck out four guys in that time. All told, he struck out five in 4.1 innings and had 77...
Read More
Good morning, Mets fans! Today, the Mets will head to Tampa and play the Yankees. Matt Harvey has the ball for the Mets and will have a tough test, assuming the Yankees use some permutation of their Opening Day lineup. Yesterday, the Mets tied the Tigers by a score of 4-4. The positive from the start were Steven Matz firing four scoreless innings while striking out Miguel Cabrera along the way....
Read More
Death, Taxes, and Brandon Nimmo getting on base. Those are three things guaranteed in life. With Juan Lagares, Jay Bruce, Yoenis Cespedes, and Michael Conforto dealing with some sort of injury in camp, Nimmo has seemingly picked up right where his 2017 season ended. Nimmo hit .260/.379/.418 in 2017 with a .348 wOBA and 117 wRC+. OPS does not give Nimmo enough credit because OBP matters more than...
Read More
Today, the Mets will take on the Nationals at 1:10 p.m. at First Data Field. The game can be seen on WPIX. The Mets lost to the Marlins 1-0 yesterday. The news seemed to be surrounding Noah Syndergaard and his electric fastball. “Thor” was throwing 98-100 again and was showing off his breaking stuff. The tall righty struck out four batters in three innings. He might very well be the...
Read More
