Tim Healey of Newsday reports that the Mets have claimed outfielder Guillermo Heredia off waivers from the Pirates. He has been optioned to Brooklyn. Heredia, 29, was 3-for-16 with a stolen base in eight games for the Pirates in 2020. He is a career .239/.317/339 hitter in 1119 major league plate appearances. The right-hander hitters best season came in 2017 with the Mariners when he posted a...
3 UP 1. Mets’ Starters Impress Much has been talked about how the Mets starting rotation with Marcus Stroman and Noah Syndergaard injured, would be a serious weak spot, at least for one series they proved that wrong. Michael Wacha made his Mets debut on Monday with five innings of one-run ball against the Red Sox at Fenway in a 7-4 victory. Possibly the most important note from...
Carlos Beltran’s tenure with the New York Mets is one of the most fascinating ones for any player in franchise history. On the field, few players have ever been more productive in a Mets uniform than Beltran. Yet his legacy with the franchise is overshadowed by a few unfortunate moments. No one will ever forget Beltran striking out looking in the 2006 NLCS. Most recently, Beltran’s...
The shortstop position has seen an incredible evolution since the Mets’ inception in 1962 until today. The days where a team could get by with a severe lack of offense in the six position as long as they could pick the baseball up off the dirt and slap the occasional single are long gone. The Cal Ripkens, Barry Larkins, and Alex Rodriguezes of the world made sure those players belonged in...
Sports Info Solutions has been an industry leader of in-depth data and analysis for almost two decades, with their flagship defensive stat, Defensive Runs Saved (DRS), being one of their most well-known contributions. DRS attempts to measure how many runs a player saved on defense, and has been one of most utilized statistics when looking to quantify a player’s value defensively. Sports...
