The Mets and Phillies hook up for round two of their three game set tonight at Citi Field. Jacob deGrom (5-4, 2.75) will take the mound at 7:10 PM against Philadelphia’s Jerome Williams (3-4, 5.44). Jacob deGrom is 10-4 with a 1.50 ERA in 16 career starts at Citi Field. That is the lowest home ERA in the major leagues over the last two seasons (minimum: 60.0 innings). Over deGrom’s last 12 home...
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The Florida State League Announced today that it has named Michael Conforto its Player of the Week for the second time this season. Conforto is in the middle of an eight-game hitting streak in which he is batting .394/.474/.636 with a homer and five doubles. On the season, he is hitting .295/.358/.486 with seven homers, 27 RBI, 12 doubles, and 15 walks in 193 trips to the plate. He is currently...
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The Mets beat the Phillies yesterday afternoon, but they are still struggling. Their pitching has become suddenly inconsistent and their offense is practically nonexistent. Here are a few things that I think, while risky, could turn things around. Call up Steven Matz Steven Matz is killing it in Triple-A right now. He currently owns a 5-2 record and a 2.24 ERA over his nine appearances (he has...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Marc M. (Not4) Memorial Day Weekend marks not only the unofficial beginning of summer but also is viewed as perhaps the first seminal day for determining whether a team’s hot start is for real. It’s easy to dismiss hot starts as nothing more than anomalies borne from small sample sizes that will regress back to the mean once the sample size increases. By the time Memorial Day...
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Baseball analyst and former GM Jim Duquette came up with three potential scenarios in trying to construct the perfect Mets and Cubs trade in an article for MLB.com. He points out that Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer recently acknowledged that the two sides have had ongoing dialogue to see if there is a good fit. The Cubs of course are loaded with talented middle infielders, while the Mets are...
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It was a draft pick viewed skeptically by many New York Met fans and openly derided by several more in the media when GM Sandy Alderson and his player development team selected Gavin Cecchini as their number one draft selection in the 2012 draft. Following a philosophy that favored baseball talent out of high school, not college, Cecchini joined Brandon Nimmo as top high school talent that was...
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