The Mets (40-36) were defeated by the Washington Nationals (46-32) by a score of 5-0 tonight at Nationals Park. With the loss, the Mets are now five games behind the Nationals in the standings. Pitching: Matt Harvey toed the rubber for the Mets tonight, and tossed 3.2 innings allowing one run on four hits, while walking three and striking out three. Harvey was removed after the second rain...
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Mets general manager Sandy Alderson spoke to reporters today at Nationals Park in DC and addressed some of the issues making headlines over the last 24 hours. 1. Left-hander Steven Matz does have a bone spur in his pitching elbow, but he will attempt to pitch through it. Alderson said the bone spur will not get worse by pitching, but it comes down to how much pain Matz is able to pitch with....
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016 • 7:05 p.m. Nationals Park • Washington, D.C. RHP Matt Harvey (4-9, 4.64) vs. RHP Lucas Giolito (ML debut) SNY • MLBN • WOR 710 AM • ESPN 1050 AM The Mets dropped the opening game of the set with the Nationals last night and look to get back on the right track tonight while health concerns among the team as a whole continue to rise. The Mets have lost two straight games...
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Las Vegas 51s second baseman Dilson Herrera and Binghamton Mets first baseman Dominic Smith have been selected to represent the Mets in the 2016 Futures Game in San Diego on July 10th. Smith will be playing on the U.S. roster while Herrera will be playing for Team World. Herrera, 22, has struggled of late dropping his slash line down to .278/.324/.474 for the season in 291 at bats. He does have...
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In last week’s installments of the widely-beloved “Know Your Stats” series, we looked at both OPS/OPS+ and wOBA. Today we already looked at wRAA and will now cover wRC+. Of all the popular offensive statistics publicly available in the baseball world, Weighted Runs Created Plus (wRC+) may be the gold standard. It combines the corrections to batting average, OBP, and slugging...
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As the 2015 season began, the Mets finally had reason to hope. The main reason for that was Jacob deGrom and the return of Matt Harvey. There was also the expectation that the Mets would also get contributions from prospects Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz, but no one knew what, if anything, either could contribute in 2015, it was all about deGrom and Harvey. Seemingly out of nowhere, deGrom...
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