Even for bullpen games, teams generally announce who will start the game way before hand. Not the Yankees. The first game went into the 7th inning today and there still was no official announcement as to who would start game two. The Mets got off to a rough start in the first game thanks to Wacha the Mets were down 4-0 early. The Yankees gifted the Mets one run before some Mets magic happened....
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...
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...
From the very moment Ron Blomberg stepped to the plate on April 6, 1973, the designated hitter rule has been one of the most heated arguments in all of baseball. With this being the penultimate year of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, the traditionalist who dislike the DH appear to be losing the argument as it is oft reported the universal DH is a fait accompli. Much of the arguments...
Brock Holt Position: 2B, 3B, 1B, OF Bats/Throws: L/R Age: June 11, 1988 (31) Traditional Stats: 87 G, 295 PA, .297/.369/.402, 14 2B, 3 HR, 31 RBI, 38 R Advanced Stats: 1.3 fWAR, 103 wRC+, -2 DRS, 2.4 UZR in 469.1 innings at 2B Brock Holt was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the ninth round of the 2009 MLB Draft and went on to make his MLB debut with the club in 2012. In 2013, Holt was...
Dominic Smith, OF/1B Player Data: Age 24, B/T : L/L Primary Stats: 89 G, 197 PA, 11 HR, 25 RBI, 19 BB, 44 SO, .282 BA, .355 OBP, .525 SLG Advanced Stats: .320 BABIP, 0.8 fWAR, 134 OPS+, 133 wRC+, 1 DRS/0.9 UZR (1B), -3 DRS/-3.6 UZR (OF) Free Agent: 2025 2019 Salary: $559,320 Grade: B- 2019 Review Dominic Smith has been through quite a bit already in his brief baseball career. The 24-year-old...
On Sunday morning, Mets’ manager Mickey Callaway told the media that the team will consider playing Michael Conforto or Jeff McNeil in center field more often to get J.D. Davis and Dominic Smith in the lineup, and that Robinson Cano will play “as much as he can” at second base, per Zack Braziller of the New York Post. With the return of Cano from the injured list, McNeil will be forced to return...
The Mets have fallen to three games below .500 in games that don’t matter as they face the Nationals today in a game that really won’t matter from a starting pitcher perspective. As we’ve discussed each of the last two game previews, the Mets are starting to hide their regulars from the Nationals/Marlins thus Jeurys Familia and Justin Wilson will be pitching in the “B” game today. This means the...
The Mets play against the Nationals today, the Marlins tomorrow, the Nationals on Sunday, the Nationals on Monday, the Marlins on Tuesday and the Marlins on Thursday. Essentially, in their last 10ish days of spring training games they are playing half of the NL East over and over and over again. This is routinely the argument made for the Mets moving their Spring Training facility to avoid this....
Here’s the good news about yesterday’s 10-3 loss to the Red Sox: several key Mets hit solo homers. Cano hit his first homer in a Mets uniform. McNeil finally got his first hit this Spring and it was a long homer. Gimenez, ranked as the No. 1 prospect in the Mets farm system by most prospect ranking outlets hit his first spring homer showing everyone his potential. Good day for those three. (And...
The Mets played two yesterday, they’ll play one today and zero tomorrow as they get their first off-day in spring. Yesterday the Mets won on the road and lost at home. Highlights included d’Arnaud’s two hit day, including a double, Aloson’s second homer of the spring, Corey Oswalt allowing 1 run over 2.1 innings, O’Rourke striking out 3 in an inning of work, Cano’s two hit day, Tebow’s two hit...
I know the ending of Spring Training games shouldn’t matter, but yesterday was a very Mets way to end a game. The Mets loaded the bases to the start the inning and were able to trade an out for a run. Then, the Mets grounded into what should have been a game-ending double play, but an errant throw led to the runner being called safe first and the tying run to score except the Mets were...
