In what has been quite the roller coaster year for the 2012 New York Mets; one thing has been consistent, and not in a good way. With some exception to a select few, this outfield has been just awful. The Amazin’s lost two starting outfielders from 2011 in Beltran and Pagan, and merely replaced them with Andres Torres, and we are now seeing the effects of that. Not only has this...
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I’ll get to the recap in a minute, but first I gotta tell you something funny before I forget. I was on the phone with a buddy of mine on Tuesday night and we were lamenting the fact that the trade deadline came and went without so much as a peep from Sandy Alderson. Surprise, surprise, right? He goes on to tell me how he wishes the Mets turn it around and by some miracle come to within a...
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Josh Edgin has not allowed a run in his last eight outings, spanning 7.1 innings. Overall, he has racked up 18 strikeouts in 10.0 innings of work and left-handed hitters are 4-23 (.174) with 12 strikeouts against him. On Monday night, Edgin earned his first major league victory, bit in my opinion he’s earned much more than that. He’s quickly become one of the most reliable arms in...
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Clearwater 7, St. Lucie 3 Alonzo Harris homered and drove in two runs, but the Mets were unable to overcome an early deficit as they fell 7-3 to the Clearwater Threshers on Wednesday. The Mets trailed 7-0 entering the eighth inning, before rallying with three runs. Robbie Shields had a leadoff single in the eighth and Harris followed with a two-run shot to left for his fifth home run of the...
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I received an interesting question from @GWNY on Twitter who asked me: Why don’t the Mets call up Fred Lewis to play LF? It’s a great question and one we’ve grappled with a couple of times in our Minor League comment threads this season. The answer as to why Lewis is still languishing in Buffalo is kind of a mystery to me. One could say they don’t want to add him to the...
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Twenty four hours later the final score of 3-2 was the same, but this time around the Binghamton Mets were on the losing end of the decision dropping game two of the series against the Harrisburg Senators. On the mound for the B-Mets, Gonzalez Germen threw a total of seven innings in the game and in the process suffered his eighth loss of the season. In his outing on Wednesday night, Germen...
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