The 2022 Mets were a great team. Despite their first-round demise in the playoffs, a 101-win team cannot be undersold. However, one of their relative weaknesses during the season was an inability to come back and win once down. Despite their reputation as comeback maestros, though, the Mets actually had only 30 comeback victories in 2022, per Baseball Reference, which ranked 22nd in baseball....
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The top Mets event of the young 2023 season is here: Brett Baty is finally joining the major league roster. Fans have cajoled, begged, and pleaded for the 23-year-old to be called up since the moment it was announced that he was optioned to Triple-A. (I argued that he had earned the right to the starting third baseman role a mere few hours before that decision went public.) After Billy Eppler...
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It wasn’t pretty, but it counts where it matters most. The New York Mets completed a series sweep over the Oakland Athletics, the worst team in baseball. It was their first sweep of the season. They accomplished what they could not last week against the Marlins, winning on Sunday to complete the trifecta. Brett Baty’s call-up to the majors may be the start of a new era at third base...
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Put it in the books! The Mets beat the Marlins for their first series victory of the season, three games to one. With 158 games remaining, it’s very premature to draw any sort of conclusions about the year. However, continuing from spring training, there are still fluctuating perceptions of various players—and those impressions will improve or decline even based on small samples of...
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Will the New York Mets win the World Series in 2023? Nah, I’m not going that bold, sorry. But it’s time for some bold Mets predictions. It’s kind of hard to be bold without making some outrageously overconfident or hyperbolic statements, but I’m going to try. Here are my five bold predictions for the Mets’ 2023 season. 5. Mets will go further in the playoffs than...
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