After splitting a four-game series with the Braves in rainy Atlanta, the New York Mets currently sit four-and-a-half games behind the newly-minted first-place Washington Nationals. Between the talent littered throughout the Braves, Nats, and Phillies, the Mets have their work cut out for themselves. In order to stay competitive in the National League East, this team will need to take advantage...
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The New York Mets announced this afternoon that Todd Frazier will begin his rehab assignment with the Las Vegas 51s this evening. Frazier, 32, is working his way back from a left hamstring strain and was hitting .237/.357/.412 with five home runs, and 21 runs batted in 32 games this season. The team also announced that reliever Anthony Swarzak, who pitched an inning for Las Vegas on Tuesday, is...
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The 1986 New York Mets team is one that will forever be revered by fans. Lauded for their gritty style of play, the ’86 club was one in which no matter what the score or situation, the team never felt like it was going to lose. It’s hard to argue with that statement, considering the club won 108 regular-season games, running away with the East Division by 21.5 games. On the first day...
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Most of the bullpen talk from new Mets manager Mickey Callaway during the offseason and in spring training was that he wasn’t going to simply use Jeurys Familia as the closer every chance and that he would use pitches in a variety of roles. Coming into Wednesday night against the Atlanta Braves, Callaway had been pretty conventional with his back-end of the bullpen usage as Familia’s...
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3 UP 1. Resiliency There’s a lot of negative things you can say about this Mets team, and with how they’ve been playing of late, we’ve all said them repeatedly. Through all of it, we’ve failed to notice how resilient this team is. Even with all the bullpen meltdowns, this team fights late into games. They respond to bad losses by putting up first inning runs. This series...
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Here’s one last Mock Draft to peruse as written by Andrew Lawrence from our friends at the Sporting News. Unlike other major professional sports, the MLB draft is unique in the sense that there is a rarely a consensus on who the top prospects are and where they will be drafted, with much more depending on projection, as many of the players taken in early in the draft are seniors in high...
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