The 2017 season started out great for New York Mets reliever Fernando Salas with seven scoreless outings to begin the year. He pitched in seven of the teams first ten games to start the year despite missing most of spring training because of visa issues. Salas then hit his first rough patch as a Met, allowing ten earned runs on 12 hits and five walks in only 4.1 innings. His ERA ballooned all...
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Jay Bruce was not supposed to be on the 2017 New York Mets roster, yet here he is, and helping them win games as their season hovers on life support. Another case of that was Wednesday night when Bruce hit two home run in the Mets 4-3 win over the Texas Rangers. Bruce had half of the Mets hits and drove in three of the four runs. Both homers came off Yu Darvish, whom struck out nine and allowed...
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There’s no doubt that Asdrubal Cabrera has played a good portion of the 2017 for the New York Mets banged up. There’s also no question that his already below average range at shortstop has taken a serious hit. Cabrera’s -3.5 UZR is the second worst in baseball among qualified shortstops and his .946 fielding percentage is also the second worst. Cabrera, who had seven errors at...
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Right-hander Seth Lugo pitched a seven inning complete game in the Binghamton Rumbles Ponies’ 5-1 win Saturday night. Lugo allowed one run on just six hits, zero walks and struck out eight in his seven innings of work. He threw 94 pitches with 67 of them coming for strikes. This was the fourth and final rehab appearance for Lugo who is expected to join the Mets rotation next week. Terry...
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First baseman Lucas Duda hit two home runs on Friday night giving him 118 in his career and tying him with Ed Kranepool for 10th on the New York Mets all-time list. Duda now has 10 multi-homer games since 2015, tied for third-most in the majors in that time with Colorado’s Nolan Arenado. Trails Oakland’s Khris Davis (12 multi-homer games) and Baltimore’s Chris Davis (11...
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