The New York Mets’ rotation in the first half has been quite the enigma. On the exterior, there’s reason to be optimistic: starters have combined for the fifth-most innings in baseball (507.2), and their contact and control peripherals feature a second-highest soft-hit rate (19.4%), fourth-lowest hard-hit rate (35.1%), seventh-highest strikeouts per nine innings (9.24), and...
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While an argument can be made against the team’s embarrassing defensive effort this year, fans and historians will likely look back on the 2019 season and lament just how frequently the Mets’ bullpen gave away games. Any encouraging rally from the sixth inning on could be erased in a matter of a dozen, sometimes half a dozen pitches, and every night seemed to bear a new culprit. Even...
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A recent article from the New York Post’s Mike Puma reveals that after the Mets’ most recent loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night, team general manager Brodie Van Wagenen held an animated meeting with the coaching staff. According to a club source, Van Wagenen (accompanied by assistant general manager Allard Baird) berated the coaches over the team’s continued...
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On Sunday, Mickey Callaway had a bad day in the dugout, and then the day got even worse when he engaged in a (mostly one-sided) shouting match with Newsday beat writer Tim Healey. Though the Mets’ front office has maintained the utmost confidence in him, it’s not particularly difficult to grasp that Callaway’s days with the organization are all but numbered at this point....
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According to Justin Toscano of The Record, Mets left-hander Justin Wilson is currently in Chicago with the big-league team, and will be throwing a bullpen “in the next couple days.” Manager Mickey Callaway described the reliever’s diagnosis to reporters as similar to “golf elbow or tennis elbow,” with his MRI showing no structural damage despite the occasional...
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