Good morning, Mets fans! New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the team will be without slugger Giancarlo Stanton for “six weeks,” according to Bryan Hoch of MLB. The Yankees placed him on the injured list the following day, his seventh trip to the injured list/disabled list in five seasons with the Yankees and 11th in 14 major-league seasons. Latest Mets News The Mets recalled...
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The Mets lost to the Dodgers 5-0 on Tuesday night, facing a vintage Clayton Kershaw who mirrored his greatness from the past. It was his 200th career win for the Dodgers. Meanwhile, Tylor Megill received the start for the Mets, battling through five innings with his usual control issues. The Dodgers wasted no time and struck against Megill in the bottom of the first. Freddie Freeman got the...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023 • 10:10 PM Dodger Stadium • Los Angeles, California RHP Tylor Megill (3-0, 2.25) vs. LHP Clayton Kershaw (2-1, 3.50) SNY Late last night while New York was sleeping, the Mets and Dodgers played an action-packed back-and-forth affair with the Mets coming out on top and securing their fifth win in a row. Baty made his 2023 debut and made an impact with an RBI. Vogelbach had...
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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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Questions still linger about how the shift ban will affect the total number of hits in baseball—and if banning the shift really does anything at all. (If you look at year-over-year heat maps of where players position themselves, there’s not really a huge change from 2022 to 2023.) But whether the Mets are shading their infield toward second or playing straight up, they are hitting all the...
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The Pitch Design Age has been a wonderful era to follow. Over the last generation, the outlook on pitching shifted from a one-approach-works-best strategy to an individualized plan of attack, detailed to each pitcher. Even 10 years ago, this perception wasn’t realized among some major-league front offices. Pirates pitching coach Ray Searage’s goal to teach Pittsburgh’s starters...
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