Before Monday’s rainout, former Met and Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey was going to face off against current Met and Cy Young threat Noah Syndergaard. It would have been a fun start to watch because of how different the two pitchers are – one throwing 100 mph fastballs and the other throwing 80 mph knuckleballs – but also because they were once traded for one another. After Dickey...
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The Jose Reyes experiment is just not working. He’s hitting .125/.222/.250 and — oh wait, those are Zack Wheeler’s batting stats. Reyes’s numbers are worse as he’s slashing .104/.189/.134 with no home runs, no triples, one stolen base, and two doubles in 19 games. He has already accumulated a -0.8 WAR on the season and that just will not cut it for a team trying to...
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The Mets are currently 8-11; certainly not where they wanted to be at this point. However badly Mets fans are panicking, there is none of that behavior allowed in the Mets clubhouse. That is a rule established by the Mets’ leader Terry Collins. “You look at this team, what they did last year, guess what, you’ve got to do it again,’’ Collins told Kevin Kernan of the New York Post. “That’s...
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Jose Reyes was an All Star-caliber player for many years, but that time is passed. While he might still be capable of being a quality player, he has not produced close to expectations. So far in 2017, Reyes is batting .104/.189/.134 with two doubles and one stolen base in 19 games. If he wasn’t Jose Reyes, he would have either been sent down to Triple-A or released outright for his...
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After it became obvious that Jose Reyes was not yet ready to hit atop the Mets lineup, Terry Collins had to scramble to find a replacement leadoff hitter. He first turned to former leadoff man Curtis Granderson, but as he has been slumping too, he wasn’t the best option. Collins ended up giving Michael Conforto a start on top of the Mets lineup and, so far, it has worked out phenomenally....
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