Tag: curious

Pete Alonso And The Curious Case Of The Intentional Walk

It wouldn’t be much of a novelty to state that Pete Alonso is the Mets’ biggest power threat—not heading into 2023, not in 2022, and not in any season since he joined the major league club in 2019. That being the case, it is more puzzling to understand why the other major league teams took three years to catch up to that fact—or, at least, in one area they did. From 2019 through...

The Curious Case of Chris Bassitt

Going into the 2022 season, the Mets were armed and ready to strut out a key 1-2 punch in pitchers Jacob deGrom and newly signed Max Scherzer. Meanwhile, the rest of the rotation was up in the air. With the shaky performances of Taijuan Walker, and Carlos Carrasco, added to the uncertainty of what a Tylor Megill, Trevor Williams, or David Peterson could provide, the Mets were left without a...