By Matt Musico While Mickey Callaway will no longer be managing the New York Mets, he left his post after watching his starting rotation compile the third-highest fWAR in baseball for the second straight year (18.0 in 2018, 19.7 in 2019). When going through this same exercise last year, the noticeable trend among all the Mets’ starters was that each of them produced their best start of...
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Times, there a changin’. Ron Burgundy may have never heard that song, but New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen sure has. After turning over a significant portion of the big-league roster last winter in an effort to make the playoffs in 2019, the “Come and get us” Mets are only watching the postseason after finishing with an 86-76 record. But after remembering that...
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By Matt Musico When looking at rotation fWAR, the New York Mets had the third-best starting staff in baseball this past year, finishing just behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. And with 941.1 total innings pitched, the rotation led the league in that particular category. Although Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, and Zack Wheeler once again accounted for the majority of the fWAR produced, left-hander...
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By Matt Musico Not having the New York Mets on TV every night isn’t fun, even if the postseason has already proven to be exciting through just two games. However, having season-long stats finalized allows us to look at who performed very well, who didn’t, and how those observations compare to each other. That’s when Seth Lugo’s music gets played, you guys. In just 80...
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While the 2019 MLB season will go down as a disappointment for the New York Mets since it didn’t end in a trip to October baseball, they certainly appear to have a solid nucleus of young players in place moving forward on the position player side of the house. The most obvious ones include Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, and Jeff McNeil, along with Amed Rosario taking a huge step forward in...
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