Ronald Blum of the Associated Press is reporting that Don Mattingly will become the new manager of the Miami Marlins. Mattingly parted company with the Los Angeles Dodgers a day after losing to the New York Mets in the National League Division Series. The Marlins also fired Dan Jennings after a 13-year association with the organization. He drew a lot of criticism for naming himself the Marlins...
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Just an update to say, so far Strat-O-Matic has pretty much nailed it. Now all we have to do is take the next four as they projected. LGM Strat-O-Matic, the industry leader in sports simulation games for the past 50-plus years, simulated the outcome of this year’s World Series between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals. METS WIN WORLD SERIES, 4 GAMES TO 2 MVP: Yoenis Cespedes (.308...
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Are Kansas City pitchers really this dominating or is your offense really struggling? Well, again, in postseason you face good pitching. That’s how the other team gets here. With that good pitching comes some rough at-bats at times. And they have pitched us very, very well. So I see both. The other day I thought in Game 1 we had some very, very good at-bats early and then later on in the...
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Former Mets catcher Mike Piazza will be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Citi Field before Game 3 on Friday night. Piazza was a six-time All-Star during his eight seasons with the Mets and was on the 2000 team, the last Mets team to play in the World Series. Piazza also threw out the first pitch on September 20 before the start of the Subway Series. He also appeared last night on Late...
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Today Rawlings released their finalists for the Major League Gold Glove awards with Curtis Granderson being the only Met chosen for his time with the team. He is a finalist in the National League in right field against the St. Louis Cardinals Jason Heyward and the Washington Nationals Bryce Harper. Heyward won the award last year while playing for the Braves. Granderson had a strong year in the...
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The first two games of the World Series have not been particularly kind to Mets starting pitching. Both Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom, while not terrible by any means, were certainly off their games. This begs the question: has the fatigue of the long season become too much? In Game 1, Harvey went six innings, allowing three runs on five hits while walking two and striking out two. He ended up...
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