Good Morning, Mets fans! Another Mets Opening Day win is in the books! Jacob deGrom pitching five scoreless innings, while giving up only one hit and striking out eight batters in his 2020 debut. After seven scoreless, Yoenis Cespedes drives one over the wall in left to give the Mets a one-run lead. The bullpen took over for deGrom after five: Seth Lugo and Justin Wilson combined for three...
I wonder what has gone through Jake Marisnick’s head this off-season? He comes to the New York Mets via trade as the Houston Astros cheating scandal sweeps across the world of baseball. He instantly becomes the 4th outfielder of a solid offensive group that could use his speed in the lineup. He also knows his playing time could be cut if Yoenis Cespedes is healthy as well. Then Michael...
When we last left off with baseball games, Guillorme was competing with Eduardo Nunez for one of the last roster spots on the Mets bench (Jed Lowrie’s spot because even a delayed season is not going to be enough time for him to get ready). When I originally wrote most of this article in February, this spot felt like Guillorme’s to lose. I had no faith in Nunez’s health. When...
As we continue to wait to see what happens with the start of the baseball season, we continue to think about projections for different players. Under normal circumstances a player like J.D. Davis would be difficult to project. He’s coming off a breakout year without a clear position on to a Mets roster that gets increasingly crowded the healthier it gets. J.D. Davis made me look like I had...
When Brodie Van Wagenen took over as the New York Mets general manager, his first big splash was to make a blockbuster trade to acquire his former client Robinson Canó. That deal has become the defining trade for Van Wagenen and not for positive reasons. Canó hit a homer on Opening Day in his regular season Mets debut (actually he played a role in all the scoring offense that day), but from that...
Right before everything shut down, we all got word that Michael Conforto tweaked his right oblique, throwing is Opening Day start into jeopardy. That feels like a lifetime ago, right? Almost lost in Pete Alonso’s amazing rookie year, Jacob deGrom’s back to back Cy Youngs and Jeff McNeil’s arrival as one of the better hitters in baseball was Michael Conforto. Conforto, very quietly, had a good...
As the the novel coronavirus situation changes daily, it’s becoming even more difficult to think about projections. Following CDC guidelines, it looks impossible right now for baseball to come back before June. This is an interesting scenario for some players, including Yoenis Céspedes. The outfielder was supposed to debut in spring training sometime around when baseball games were...
Not having any baseball right now is tough and we are looking for ways to still engage with our favorite pastime and dream about the 2020 season, whenever it starts. So we are going to start examining the Mets roster and look at projections from Baseball Prospectus, ESPN, ZiPS and Steamer to them in perspective with the 2019 season. We wanted to address COVID-19 directly first. All of our...
According to a report from Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Colorado Rockies are close to a deal with free agent left-handed second baseman Daniel Murphy. Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports confirmed this report, adding that it is a two-year, $24 million deal. Murphy, the longtime former Met, took a big step back last year after two All-Star caliber seasons with the Nationals. In an injury-delayed...
Tonight, Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Trevor Hoffman, and Jim Thome got elected to the Baseball Hall-of-Fame. Chipper Jones Jones played 18 full years in the big leagues from 1995-2012. He hit .303/.401/.533 with a 141 OPS+ in that time frame. “Larry” tormented the Mets and all other teams. I refuse to call him a Met killer because he killed every team, not just the Mets. Gaby...
The Colorado Rockies have acquired catcher Jonathan Lucroy from the Texas Rangers for a player to be named later. Lucroy, 31, has been having a down year by his standards, having hit .242/.279/.338 with four home runs and 27 RBIs in 77 games. His 66 wRC+ is the lowest mark of his career, along with his -0.5 WAR per Baseball Reference. He has struggled mightily in July, hitting only .167 with...
Few things surprise me in baseball, mostly because in my 40 years of watching the game I’ve learned that almost everyday something happens that has never happened before. Baseball is a sport that loves its records and everyday it seems new ones are set and old ones are broken. Nothing is ever what it seems. A team can win 105 games in a season and then get knocked off by a wild card team...
