The New York Mets are set to begin their 2024 season against the Milwaukee Brewers later today! But, before that gets started, now is the perfect time to take a deeper look into the betting odds for each of the awards in the National League. Which Mets have the best odds to be named as the MVP, Cy Young winner and/or Rookie of the Year? Let’s take a look at the odds, presented by...
The Mets received some good news after all on Monday. After being spurned by Craig Counsell for their vacant managerial position, the Mets and Kodai Senga were informed that he is one of three finalists for the National League Rookie of the Year Award. Diamondbacks’ right-fielder Corbin Carroll and Dodgers’ center-fielder James Outman are the other two finalists.After signing a...
Edwin Diaz finished ninth in the National League Cy Young Award voting, the highest finish of any relief pitcher this season. Diaz, who compiled 32 saves with a 1.31 ERA, 297 ERA+ and a staggering 50.2 strikeout percentage in 2022, received one second-place vote (from MLB.com Cardinals beat writer John Denton) and two fifth-place votes. No other Mets pitchers received a vote. The Marlins Sandy...
While the New York Mets haven’t qualified for the playoffs since 2016, which is a streak they’re attempting to end this season, they’ve featured one of the top starting pitchers in the majors during that span and he’s continued to improve his craft every single season. Considered a late-bloomer, pitcher Jacob deGrom didn’t make his major league debut until his...
Good Morning, Mets fans! Jacob deGrom has been nominated as a finalist for the NL Cy Young Award and Steve Cohen has Mets fans excited about the future. Latest Mets News Per Marc Carig of The Athletic, Steve Cohen, new owner of the Mets, spent part of his weekend directly replying to Mets fans on his Twitter handle, @StevenACohen2. Carig spoke to a few fans about what Cohen’s responses meant to...
Following back-to-back award-winning seasons, Jacob deGrom was hoping to carry his outstanding results into this season and help lead the New York Mets back to the postseason for the first time since the 2016 campaign. Unfortunately, only one of those things has occurred in 2020. With the regular season winding down, the Mets are still sitting on the outside of the playoff picture, currently two...
The New York Mets were defeated by the Tampa Bay Rays by a score of 2-1 (Box Score). After lasting just two innings in his previous start due to hamstring spasms, NL Cy Young candidate Jacob deGrom returned to the mound for the Amazins’ and was impressive. DeGrom had a much better outing going seven innings while allowing two-runs, on four hits, matching his career high with 14 strikeouts. For...
While the Mets season is going down the drain quickly, they’ve had several great individual performances in 2020 and the least surprising one is the dominance of Jacob deGrom. With under two weeks left in the season, he looks like the favorite to win his third straight National League Cy Young award. Jacob deGrom The reigning NL Cy Young now leads the NL in ERA (1.67) and K% (37.8)....
In Wednesday night’s outing against the Miami Marlins, Jacob deGrom returned to the mound after missing one start to neck stiffness and he was back to his old self. Starting the night, deGrom took a second to get in the rhythm with Jesus Aguilar reaching first on a fielding error from J.D. Davis and Corey Dickerson singling. Yet even with two men on base, deGrom did what he does best and worked...
“Nobody likes to hear it, because it is dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same–pitching.” -Earl Weaver Even if the above quote didn’t include his patented ‘three-run homer’ in addition to his recipe for success, the point is as well taken as it is obvious — a teams’ pitching is what makes or breaks a season. Perhaps no...
Last week, I unveiled the 2020 ATC projections for New York Mets hitters. I am the creator of the Average Total Cost (ATC) Projection system, which has appeared on FanGraphs since 2017. As a quick refresher, ATC is a “smart” aggregation model of other projection systems – a methodology similar to what Nate Silver does with his presidential forecasting at www.fivethirtyeight.com. The Average...
Good morning Mets fans! On Wednesday, Mets ace Jacob deGrom won his second straight Cy-Young award accumulating 29-out-of-30 first place votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America. DeGrom is the first Met to earn back-to-back Cy Young Awards, and the seventh National League pitcher to accomplish this feat in the history of baseball. DeGrom first put up a historic season in 2018...
