The Mets pitching staff has the third worst ERA in baseball, behind only the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati Reds. Starters haven’t been able to give the team length and the bullpen has been horrendous, as evident by a collective team ERA of 4.94. Saturday night, Seth Lugo was brilliant for five innings, but after crashing back to earth his day was over less than an inning later. Paul...
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It started off positive for the Mets on Saturday afternoon. New York clubbed three first inning home runs, Seth Lugo carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning and it looked as though they could maybe sneak away with a win against the best team in baseball. Then it fell apart. Lugo’s late inning struggles resurfaced, the Mets turned back into pumpkins and the Dodgers showed again why they...
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If there was any hope of the Mets being a Cinderella story in 2017, those dreams are all but gone. After dropping two games out of three to the Rockies who currently hold the second wild card spot, the Mets were silent against Yu Darvish and the Dodgers on Friday night. It was just another cruel reminder that the Mets can’t hang with the big boys, even with ace Jacob deGrom on the mound....
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Every so often, a player rises up through an organization and everyone knows they are going to be special. The Mets themselves experienced it in the early 2000’s. First it was Jose Reyes who burst on the scene in 2003 as a wide-eyed 20-year-old. Then it was David Wright, the Virginia-born Mets fan who supplanted Ty Wigginton at the hot corner in 2004 and ultimately became the team captain....
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The Mets biggest move on trade deadline day wasn’t a trade at all, but it’s what everyone has been waiting for. Shortly after 4 p.m. past on Monday, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson announced that the team had promoted its top prospect Amed Rosario to the show and that he would play Tuesday in Colorado. Alderson went on to say that the No. 2 prospect in the organization, Dominic...
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