The New York Mets today announced they have signed a two-year player development contract with the Las Vegas 51s, which will be the club’s new Triple-A affiliate. The 51s play in the Pacific Coast League and have Cashman Field as their home stadium. “We are excited about our new partnership with the Las Vegas 51s and the city of Las Vegas, one which values equally player development,...
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I’ve been so down on this team lately. So much so that it’s even effected my outlook on non-baseball matters. Everything just feels so drab. Yesterday, I found myself trying to find ways to transcend my negativity into something positive – if only to spare myself from two more weeks of this agonizing final month of the Mets baseball season. The answer was right in front of me...
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Just a quick thought on something Adma Rubin just tweeted about Ike Davis: If you look at David Wright’s OPS which is a team leading .895 and also top ten in the NL, you would think he’d be infinitely ahead of Ike Davis in the RBI department considering Davis has just a .754 OPS. That’s a difference of almost 150 points. Wright’s On-Base Percentage is over 100 points...
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Here’s a clip from SNY of Kevin Burkhardt interviewing Wally Backman who is now part of the Mets coaching staff since the minor league season ended. The subject is Mets rookie Matt Harvey who Backman says he’s never seen him pitch like this when he was at Triple-A Buffalo, and he wonders if Harvey was just bored in the minors and probably not going full tilt. Have a look and you...
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It will be two years to the day since the last time Jenrry Mejia started a game for the New York Mets back on September 15, 2010. In that game, his third of that season after working mostly in relief, Mejia was removed in the middle of an at-bat in the third inning with a 2-0 count on Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates. “I saw something was wrong,” catcher Henry Blanco said. “I went out right away....
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