Pete Alonso means business in 2023. Great players have the innate ability to be able to drag their team through adversity. Alonso is doing that for the New York Mets right now. He may also be the most consistent and the most potent hitter in all of baseball. Alonso entered Friday night’s game against the Giants tied for the major lead with nine homers with Patrick Wisdom of the Cubs....
Questions still linger about how the shift ban will affect the total number of hits in baseball—and if banning the shift really does anything at all. (If you look at year-over-year heat maps of where players position themselves, there’s not really a huge change from 2022 to 2023.) But whether the Mets are shading their infield toward second or playing straight up, they are hitting all the...
On the day that all of Major League Baseball honored the late Jackie Robinson, the New York Mets continued their West Coast road trip and their series against the Oakland Athletics. It was RHP Carlos Carrasco on the mound for the visiting Mets against RHP Shintaro Fujinami on the mound for the Athletics in a tale of two starters that had struggled in the early stages of the 2023 season. After...
Facing the Marlins for the second time in six days, Tylor Megill followed up his solid effort in Miami with a strong start in the Mets’ 2023 home opener. The big righty tossed six shutout innings, allowing just three hits and two walks while striking out three. Megill only had one 1-2-3 inning, but only allowed the Marlins to get a base runner to second base once – on Luis...
What a day it was at Citi Field as the New York Mets returned home for the first time in 2023. They marked the occasion with a 9-3 win to reach .500 on the season. Friday started a three-game series between the Mets and the Miami Marlins. Right-handed pitcher Edward Cabrera took the mound for the visiting Marlins for his second start of the season; and it was right-handed pitcher Tylor Megill...
The Mets took the field at loanDepot Park on Saturday afternoon looking to rebound from their disappointing loss on Friday evening. Tylor Megill started the game for the Mets in place of Justin Verlander, who was put on the Injured List, while the promising Edward Cabrera took the mound for the Marlins. While the bats went cold on Friday, they were able to come through in the clutch as big hits...
We’re just two games into the 2023 MLB season, but Starling Marte has already teased tantalizing signs of operating at the full peak of his powers for the New York Mets. There were some concerns over whether or not Marte would be at full tilt come Opening Day after undergoing core surgery during the offseason. However, those fears have quickly been eradicated. Through the first two games...
It seems as though at least one of Major League Baseball’s rule changes is already having the desired impact. We’re a day into the 2023 MLB season and Opening Day 2023 was both a success for the Mets, and for the game of baseball overall. There was action galore and a lot of that action was to be found on the base paths. While the introduction of the pitch clock attracted the most...
The 2023 season is almost here. Can you believe it?! You know what time it is — prediction time! What record will the Mets end with? Will they make it to the postseason? Take the division? Here’s what we think. John Sheridan Mets Record: 89-73 NL East: Braves NL Central: Cardinals NL West: Padres NL WC: Mets, Phillies, Giants AL East: Blue Jays AL Central: Twins AL West: Astros AL WC:...
Pete Alonso arrived back from the World Baseball Classic on Thursday and he came back with one thing on his mind: The Mets making it to the postseason. Alonso represented a Team USA team that lost to Japan in the final of the tournament. So many players came back saying the WBC had the atmosphere of playoff baseball, and Alonso was no different. “It’s an addicting feeling,” he said in an...
Brandon Nimmo is week-to-week with a low-grade sprain to his right ankle and knee, New York Mets general manager Billy Eppler has announced. Eppler added that “everything looked structurally sound” in the MRIs that were taken on Saturday. Billy Eppler announces that Brandon Nimmo has low-grade sprains in both his ankle and knee and is considered week-to-week:...
Good morning, Mets fans! On Friday, Will Sammon of The Athletic released an article about Justin Verlander and how he is still attempting to introduce a changeup into his repertoire at this stage of his career. Verlander credited a 2019 meeting with Nolan Ryan as inspiring him to use the pitch more often, which he did before his injuries that caused him to miss virtually all of the 2020 and 2021...
