Author: Matt Mancuso

Statcast Breakdown: Rick Porcello

After Zack Wheeler’s departure to the “City of Brotherly Love” this offseason, the Mets ventured into the free agency market to pick up a pair of veteran starters, Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello. In Wacha, the Mets have themselves a project. Once considered an elite can’t-miss farmhand, Wacha’s prospect pedigree took a tumble about a half-decade ago. He’s...

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Statcast Breakdown: Wilson Ramos

Fast baseball players tend to hit ground-balls. And usually, they’re pretty good at it. In order to procure this analysis, it didn’t take much time; merely common sense led me to this conclusion. Baseball players who are fleet of foot are likely to beat out ground-balls because his speed gives them a natural advantage. Which makes it all the more confusing how Wilson Ramos led the Majors in...

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Morning Briefing: Opening Day Two Days Away

Good Morning, Mets fans! Two more days until Opening Day! Latest Mets News  Yoenis Cespedes revealed that he will DH for New York Opening Day. The Mets have set up a poster of Anthony Causi in Citi Field’s photography well. Jon Heyman of Fancred tweeted out that the Mets are looking into bullpen help. Latest MLB News Hayden Godfrey of Baseball America profiled how influential...

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Mets Place Jed Lowrie, Walker Lockett on Injured List

Jed Lowrie. The gift that keeps on taking away. At the time of his signing, Jed Lowrie’s two-year, twenty-million-dollar contract represented a nice change in pace for the Mets. Instead of going into the season with a bevy of unanswered depth questions, Lowrie’s signing virtually guaranteed that New York would be all set at the infield. Yet, a year into the deal, it’s evident...

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Morning Briefing: Mets Fall In Second Exhibition Game Versus Yankees

Good Morning, Mets fans! In what’s become an evergreen statement, the Mets didn’t do well yesterday. Corey Oswalt had his moments in the first three innings, but once he was removed in the fourth, Drew Smith and Chasen Shreve combined to allow feet worth of quarter-mile worth of home runs. Mets were blown out by the Yankees: 6-0 Nevertheless, it feels good to write about live...

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