What goes into creating a successful bullpen? Surely teams need to spend heavily to acquire as many high-priced and established leverage relievers as possible to have success, correct? Well, not necessarily. The 2025 Dodgers’ World Series Roster contained only one primary reliever making over $10 million must have been an anomaly, as long as you ignore the 2024 Dodgers’ World Series...
Add the 2026 season as a footnote to the Mets’ long fable of unlucky moments and unfortunate seasons. The year hasn’t gone as planned. And that’s stating the obvious. Despite high preseason expectations, injuries to the club’s key players and a lack of quality pitching depth contributed to the team’s early-season 12-game losing streak. The slog, the club’s longest since 2003, effectively erased...
The New York Mets just continue to roll. After taking two out of three from the Padres, the Mets have now clinched four series wins in the month of August. Furthermore, they are now a red-hot 11-4 over their last 15 games. It sure looks like the foundation is taking shape for the 2027 season and beyond. Finishing this year strong will only serve to raise the optimism currently being felt in...
On Monday, the Mets officially added Christopher Morel to the 26-man roster and designated Gabriel Arias for assignment. In light of recent reporting by The Athletic’s Will Sammon regarding the 2027 position player group, it is worth examining what the front office sees in Morel and where he might fit into the team’s future plans.Once a highly touted prospect, Morel enjoyed a major breakout...
The New York Mets are red-hot right now. Dating back to the Trade Deadline, the Mets are a scorching 9-3. During that run, this team has been incredibly fun to watch on a near-nightly basis. That culminated in an entertaining sweep of the Nationals over the weekend. Great pitching, an even better bullpen, and some clutch hitting were the fuel behind the Mets’ second series sweep this...
Offense or, rather, a lack of it, proved to be the downfall of the Mets in Atlanta. After putting up eight runs in the series opener, the Mets managed just three runs the rest of the series. Consequently, they dropped the series after losing the final two games against the Braves. It was inevitable that the Mets would come back to earth following the recent hot streak. The offense still features...
Robert Stock got lit up on Saturday. He lasted just three innings and gave up eight earned runs on nine hits and five walks. It was a crash back to reality after a stellar first MLB start since 2022 for the 36-year-old, jumping his small-sample-size ERA from 1.80 to 10.13. No, he’s not a 10.13 ERA pitcher. There are things to like. He throws pretty hard, has a strong arsenal that goes five...
Because of the Mets’ luxury tax standing, if they end up with a first-round pick lower than sixth overall, that pick is moved 10 spots back. That means they cannot have any pick between seven and 16. In this year’s draft, that would have been a difference of $2,938,166 going from $5,809,575 at pick six to $3,411,409 at pick seventeen. Top six picks are protected, so if the Mets have a top...
The New York Mets won for the sixth time in the seven games since the trade deadline Monday night. They took down their division rival, Atlanta Braves, in their series opener, 8-5. The win continued a surprising run from a stingy Mets bullpen. The group includes only one holdover from before the deadline selloff, and they shutout the division-leading Braves over the final four frames while...
What a week that turned out to be for the New York Mets. Coming off the Trade Deadline, the new-look Mets hit the road and are currently an impressive 5-1 before opening up a series in Atlanta on Monday. After sweeping the Guardians, the Mets went into Pittsburgh and continued to be a lot of fun to watch on the way to taking two out of three from the Pirates. While wins and losses hold little...
The Mets’ 2023 draft was overall successful with some big-impact names coming out of it. Nolan McLean, taken in the third round, may be the most impactful player taken. The Mets drafted him as a two-way player with an eye for what he could do on the pitching side. Within a year, he stopped hitting, and a year later he went through a massive overhaul in Triple-A in the summer of 2025,...
Stolen bases and clutch defensive plays sprinkled throughout may have just been the difference in the Mets winning Friday’s game over the Pirates. The Mets, now 4-0 since the trade deadline, have been playing loose since selling some of their major pieces. They came out running on Friday. They took advantage of a rattled starter in Carmen Mlodzinski, who struggled mightily after a...
