The hits keep on coming for Wilmer Flores and the power has been emerging too. On Friday night, the Mets de facto shortstop blasted a prodigious 431 foot home run into the second deck of Great American Ball Park. It was his third home run of the season and after his two-hit night, Flores now has 11 hits in his last 30 at-bats with a 1.040 OPS. “Some guys it takes a little time to learn how...
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Last night both the Las Vegas 51’s and the Binghamton Mets fell and are now on the verge of elimination from the minor league playoffs. With Noah Syndergaard on the hill for the 51’s, the team dropped the third game of the series. They are now down 2-1 in the series with game 4 coming up tonight. Syndergaard was highly ineffective. He lasted only 4 innings, giving up 6 runs on 6 hits...
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After last nights victory over the Reds, the Mets recalled Rafael Montero from AAA Las Vegas. Montero pitched in the opening game of the Pacific Coast League playoffs on Wednesday, where he was ineffective. He went just 4 1/3, allowing 3 runs, 4 walks and 7 hits. According to Adam Rubin of ESPN, Mets officials say there is no injury to a current member of the rotation. Terry Collins had...
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Last night in Cincinnati the Mets offense did something they haven’t done all season. They scored 14 runs. The most runs they had scored this season had been 12 back in May against the Yankees. Last night, David Wright and Travis d’Arnaud led the Mets to 14 runs on 18 hits. That included five home runs. It’s rare to see this Mets team scoring runs the way they did last night....
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Adam Felder of The Atlantic, disputes the theory that major league baseball has entered an age of parity and some would have you believe. Rather, the gap between rich teams and poor teams has widened. To back up his claim, Felder points out that since in the last 25 years since 1990, only two teams in the lower third of MLB payroll has won a World Series (1990 Reds, 2003 Marlins), compared to...
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