If you’re feeling glum these days about the current state of the Mets, join the crowd. It’s been an exhausting and demoralizing last three weeks for the team and the Mets have some real soul-searching to do. The Mets have now lost five-consecutive games for the first time this season and for the first time since losing five in a row from September 10-15 of last season. They have been...
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I never saw it coming. When we posted our staff predictions for the 2018 season back in March, I wrote that Matt Harvey would become the first player in MLB history to win the Comeback Player Award twice. Maybe it was just wishful thinking on my part, but I envisioned a return to greatness for the one-time phenom. Perhaps not the sort of greatness we saw in 2013, when Matt Harvey started the All...
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As Mets fans we’ve experienced so many trials and tribulations over the years, that we’ve sort of become hardened and accustomed to it all. We’ve become seemingly numb to any and all bad news that afflicts the team with such bizarre, dramatic, and alarming regularity. No matter how well or how good things may be going for the Mets, many of us remain in a perpetual guarded state...
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The New York Mets have had their share of solid closers in their history, but plenty of clunkers as well. In this week’s Mets Quiz we’re going to test your knowledge of Mets closers over the years. Simply put, we want you to name every reliever who accumulated at least 20 or more career saves for the Mets. So you think you know the Mets? Prove it… Name all 20 relievers who...
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Let’s face it, aside from the very expected solid performances by Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom, the rest of the rotation behind those two stalwarts has been questionable and troubling to put it mildly. I guess I was being naive when I so matter of factly wrote, “all the Mets need to win ninety or more games is for one of Steven Matz, Matt Harvey or Zack Wheeler to pitch at or...
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