So much for an uphill battle to make the New York Mets’ Opening Day roster. If there is any justice in baseball, Brett Baty will be the Opening Day third baseman for the Mets in Miami. Forget sunk costs. Forget rationalizations. Steve Cohen said it himself: the Mets needed one more piece. Baty has shown that there’s a chance he can be that piece. What more is there to ask? Hard...
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It is the day after. A somber day of mourning for Mets fans. Edwin Díaz is out for the season following knee surgery. It feels to many like the sun was suddenly wiped out indefinitely. All the joy, all the excitement, all the anticipation—muted. This is not just the loss of a player. It’s not even just the loss of a great player. Lights-out closers have gotten hurt before; Mariano Rivera,...
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The Mets were fully aware that their starting pitching depth was going to be tested this season. They had hoped, though, that it wouldn’t be quite this soon. With the news about José Quintana’s surgery for a stress fracture in his rib, the Mets will now be down a starter until at least July. While not ideal for the team, it presents a golden opportunity for one of the Mets’...
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Francisco Álvarez may be the Mets’ future behind the plate, but at least one New York catcher made a case to keep him in the minors a bit longer. Baseball Savant, the website that houses metrics and insights from MLB’s Statcast technology, introduced a new catcher blocking leaderboard. The stat tracks a catcher’s proficiency in preventing wild pitches (WP) and passed balls (PB)...
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It wouldn’t be much of a novelty to state that Pete Alonso is the Mets’ biggest power threat—not heading into 2023, not in 2022, and not in any season since he joined the major league club in 2019. That being the case, it is more puzzling to understand why the other major league teams took three years to catch up to that fact—or, at least, in one area they did. From 2019 through...
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