Even with Johan Santana on the disabled list to start the season, there was still was no room on the Mets’ Opening Day roster for Dillon Gee. However, after Gee had made just two starts in the minors, it was clear that there were issues with the Mets starting rotation. The team made the decision to call him up on April 17th and it is looking like a great move. Gee’s success may not come as that...
Read MoreI piqued your curiosity didn’t I? Collins actually did say that, but he wasn’t referring to the trade deadline – he was responding to a question about moving Jose Reyes from the leadoff spot to batting third in the lineup. As ESPN pointed out last night, there are plenty of reasons why some people look at Terry Collins as the anti-Jerry Manuel. Collins provided yet another...
Read MoreGame Summary On the day after, “Don’t Trade Jose Reyes Day” the Mets get a shutout win against the Braves. Dillon Gee pitches a gem with seven innings with no runs and four hits. Bullpen finally keeps it together. Jose Reyes fuels a five run seventh inning to get the Mets a 5-0 win against Braves. Game Notes Dillon Gee continues to dominate in starts and has probably synced his...
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The 2011 Mets… Who are they? What are they? The front office tried their damnedest to convince us this was not a throw-away season… But that’s exactly what it feels like. We pretended not to notice how bad our rotation was when Mike Pelfrey was tabbed to be the Opening Day starter. Some of us bit our tongues when Chin-lung Hu, Blaine Boyer, Scott Hairston, Brad Emaus and Willie...
Read MoreRHP Jair Jurrjens (7-1, 1.51) vs. RHP Dillon Gee (5-0, 3.83) Tonight’s match-up between Dillon Gee and Jair Jurrjens features pitchers with the top two winning percentages in the National League. Gee, who is 5-0, has 1.000 winning percentage and Jurrjens, at 7-1, sports a .875 winning percentage. Starting Lineup 1. Jose Reyes – SS 2. Justin Turner – 3B 3. Carlos Beltran – RF 4. Daniel Murphy –...
Read MoreBaseball America Prospect Hot Sheet The Mets had two players appear on Baseball America’s latest Prospect Hot Sheet: Matt Harvey threw seven scoreless innings against Dunedin on Friday while allowing just three hits and establishing a career high with 10 strikeouts. He followed that with nine-strikeout effort against Clearwater. That’s all in a week’s work for Harvey, who in 59...
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