Following a 2022 season in which the Syracuse Mets posted a disappointing 64-85 record, there was hope that they would be able to turn things around in 2023. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out that way. In fact, the team arguably experienced an even worse season in Dick Scott’s first year managing the club. Posting the second-worst record in the International League at 61-85, the...
Francisco Álvarez was left searching for answers after finishing the month of June with a .151 batting average, a .534 OPS and 22 strikeouts. The flip to a new month has allowed the young catcher to regain some of the power he showed earlier this season, as he has hit a home run in two of his last three games. Álvarez has produced at the plate in high-leverage spots, including his go-ahead...
With nothing going right for the Mets, they desperately needed one of their stars to step up and break out with a big offensive game on Tuesday. Enter Brandon Nimmo, the Met who’s been the most consistent this season at the plate. On Tuesday night with the Mets in need of a spark to help them get back in the win column, Nimmo launched not one, but two homers off of Julio Teheran to...
Pete Alonso has been clobbering the baseball in the first month of the season. Alonso has amassed 10 home runs, and is second in the majors behind Max Muncy. He is well on pace to surpass 50 homers again for the first time since his rookie season in 2019. However, the Mets are relying far too much on Alonso to score via the long ball. The rest of the team has combined for just 16 home runs in 24...
The 2022 season was filled with plenty of memorable moments for the Mets, especially in terms of the long ball. However, a few stand above the rest, and today we are going to go over the top 5 home runs of the season. 5). Brett Baty Solo HR vs. ATL (8/17/22) Unbelievable! Baty Homers in First Big League At-Bat – YouTube On August 17, 2022, the Mets No. 2 prospect in Brett Baty made his...
Another game, another lackluster offensive performance by the New York Mets on Saturday evening. The New York offense, for the most part, has been struggling, outside some single-game explosions, for months. The main culprit of all these struggles can be traced back to a lack of power. Specifically, the home-run ball. The Mets’ offense has largely been praised by fans and pundits for...
The concept of interleague play has diluted over time. The Subway Series was no different. Initial and inevitable hype generated by a regular season Mets-Yankees match-up went down in recent years despite it having meaning to some fans. When both teams are playing at a high level it usually rises to the occasion too. The three games at Citi Field last season felt like the old days—infused with...
You could say that center fielder Tommie Agee never hit the ground running when the New York Mets acquired him along with Al Weis from the Chicago White Sox for Jack Fisher, Tommy Davis and a pair of minor leaguers. In fact, after consecutive All Star campaigns for the White Sox, Agee had a dreadful ’68 season for the Mets. It started out by getting beaned by the hard-throwing Bob Gibson...
Swing Kings By Jared Diamond. 336 pp. $28.99 In Swing Kings, Jared Diamond unearths chance encounters, unlikely coaches and stark technique changes responsible for transforming pedestrian batters into Major League Baseball’s elite sluggers. Diamond illustrates the precise moments when today’s power hitters — the likes of J.D. Martinez and Aaron Judge — discovered the need to deconstruct and...
Baseball has not been easier for pitchers over the last few years. Home runs have sailed out of ballparks at all-time highs, record exit velocities have been set, and there have been rumblings throughout the industry that the physical composition of the baseball has changed. Many pitchers have complained about the new physicalities of the ball, claiming that it’s been more difficult to...
The Mets 2019 season has been a failure. When Brodie Van Wagenen was hired he promised to win now and made moves this offseason to do so. Not only did it not work, he doubled down on this strategy midseason by trading for Marcus Stroman. By missing the playoffs Van Wagenen’s first season as GM has to be seen as a failure. That’s not the whole story though. By all past measures, there...
With a double in the first inning of Sunday’s contest with the Cincinnati Reds, Pete Alonso became the first rookie in MLB history to have 50 home runs and 30 doubles in a season. Alonso was then driven in by Robinson Cano for the first run of the game. Alonso, 24, has had a storied campaign thus far. He won the Home Run Derby back in July, had an RBI in the All-Star Game, has set the...
