Terry Collins apologized to Jay Horwitz personally this afternoon, for what he referred to as “his unprofessional behavior.” He then apologized a second time to the Mets VP in front of the beat writers in the media room where the incident took place on Wednesday. Good deal, now let’s move on. Joe D. Original Report – June 22 The New York Mets came out victorious on...
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For the next few days, I will be bringing back my “Know Your Stats” series that I began a few years back to highlight some important sabermetric stats and concepts. Earlier today, we went through OPS and OPS+. Now we continue with wOBA… Perhaps the best way of describing weighted-On Base Average (wOBA) is to describe the faults of some of the traditional hitting statistics first. Batting...
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Thursday, June 23, 2016 • 7:10 p.m. Turner Field • Atlanta, GA RHP Matt Harvey (4-9, 4.76) vs. RHP Matt Wisler (3-7, 4.23) SNY • WOR 710 AM • ESPN 1050 AM After a tough series against the Braves over last weekend, the Mets responded by winning two games against the Royals despite some fairly unexpected twists including Bartolo Colon leaving the game with a thumb injury after tossing just four...
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Braves Move Hopefully Exercises Historical Demons Today marks the Mets second trip to Atlanta in 2016, the final year for the stadium’s vile, painful, and wretched existence as a baseball venue. After the final regular season game for the Atlanta Braves on October 2nd, barring a playoff appearance (LOL), the city of Atlanta had originally had plans to demolish the building to make room...
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The Mets announced in their game notes that top prospect Amed Rosario has been promoted to the Binghamton Mets from St. Lucie. Rosario hit .309/.359/.442 with 10 doubles, three homers, eight triples and 40 RBI in 66 games. He was the starting shortstop in the Florida State League All-Star game. Rosario started the season as the third youngest player in the FSL and leaves as the leader in hits 82...
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For the next few days, I will be bringing back my “Know Your Stats” series that I began a few years back to highlight some important sabermetric stats and concepts. We begin this afternoon with OPS and OPS+. OPS, or On Base Plus Slugging was one of the first sabermetric stats to go mainstream. It is, as the name implies, On-Base Percentage plus Slugging Percentage. It’s crude...
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