One of the more highly-anticipated changes of the 2023 baseball season is the limitation of the shift. Since its widespread inception at the beginning of the 2010s, batting averages have plummeted, leading to a further emphasis on home runs and launch angle. Batting average with balls in play (BABIP) became too risky to rely on, as teams took advantage of batters’ inability to “hit...
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When a team wins 101 games, the assumption is that many things went right. However, when that same team is eliminated in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs with barely a whimper, it’s fair to look back and ask what went wrong. The 2022 Mets were one of the most puzzling enigmas of the last number of seasons. There have been other good teams eliminated in the first round; as recently as...
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Baseball projections wait for no one—not even Carlos Correa. Dan Szymborski of FanGraphs released the ZiPS projections for the 2023 Mets. Given the uncertainty of the Correa situation but reports that the Mets are still his most likely destination (at the time ZiPS was published), ZiPS has included Correa as a “maybe” member of the Mets’ lineup. Though you can read the entire...
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When the Mets signed Mark Canha to a two-year deal in November 2021, his role on the team did not seem to be clear-cut. After all, they inked Starling Marte shortly thereafter and had Robinson Cano penciled in at second base, which left Jeff McNeil without an everyday spot. The assumption was that McNeil would take at least some of the at-bats in left in addition to second and possibly third...
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