It was a rough night for hitters in the Mets minor leagues but Mark Vientos did have two hits on the night for Triple-A Syracuse. AAA: Jacksonville (46-39) 4, Syracuse (37-48) Box Score C Francisco Alvarez 0-for-4, 3 K, .100/.240/.150 (AAA stats) DH Mark Vientos 2-for-4, .255/.340/.494 The Syracuse Mets had only three hits and walked just once on the night. Álvarez, the Mets’ top prospect,...
In this weekly feature for MMO, I’m going to look back at the previous week’s games and share some interesting data and information that I’ve collected through various websites such as Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Savant. It’ll be a mixture of facts, stats, analytics, and general analysis. Let’s get into the seven days between May 22 and May 28...
Jacob deGrom injured, Max Scherzer injured, Tylor Megill injured and the Mets had to dip into their pitching depth a little deeper for a starter on Wednesday against the Giants. To say it didn’t go well, would be a massive understatement. Thomas Szapucki, making his first big league start, only recorded four outs and gave up a whopping nine runs in the Mets’ 9-3 loss to the Giants....
3 UP Lindor Returns As previously noted, the hand-wringing over Francisco Lindor’s struggles was very premature. He always struggles in either April or May of every season, but he eventually gets hot and looks like the All-Star caliber player he is. We saw that Lindor in San Francisco. In the series, Lindor was 5-for-13 with four runs, two doubles, a triple, two homers, and nine RBIs. He...
After Thursday’s back and forth 13-12 loss, the Mets sent Thomas Szapucki to the mound for his first Major League start looking to take the rubber match from Jakob Junis and the Giants. Szapucki’s first start could not have gone worse, as the Giants jumped on him for nine runs on seven hits and four home runs in just 1 1/3 innings and won the game 9-3. Szapucki came out firing with added...
It feels like a really long time ago that Thomas Szapucki was one of the Mets top prospects and was actually featured in a Top 100 MLB list as well. The left-handed was seen as a guy that already had an electrifying two pitch mix with an exploding fastball up to 97 mph and knee-buckling breaking ball that flashed plus. Szapucki went into the 2017 season ranked as the No. 69 prospect in baseball...
After taking two of three from the Rockies in Denver, the Mets are heading to San Francisco for the final leg of their road trip. When the Mets last faced the Giants at Citi Field in April, the Mets won three of four games. But the last time the Mets faced the Giants in California, back in 2021, it was part of a disastrous west coast trip that marked the beginning of the end for the 2021...
In his last start for Triple-A Syracuse, Thomas Szapucki reminded people why he was regarded as a top prospect before all of the injuries. This is a left-handed pitcher with an uncanny ability to generate swings-and-misses. When he’s good, he’s untouchable. Szapucki dominated the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders over his four innings pitched last Tuesday night. He struck out nine of...
AAA: Syracuse Mets (10-20) 0 vs. Scranton Wilkes-Barre Railriders (11-19) 2 Box Score Nick Plummer, RF: 1-for-4, 1 SO, .254/.316/.463 Daniel Palka, 1B: 1-for-4, 1 SO, .244/.369/.581 Patrick Mazeika, C: 1-for-4, .242/.356/.258 Gosuke Katoh, 2B: 1-for-4, .111/.111/.111 The Syracuse Mets fell to 10-20 on Tuesday night as they were shutout by Scranton Wilkes-Barre 2-0. They accumulated just...
After Mookie Wilson began the 2022 affiliate schedule with a ceremonial first strike, the excitement on Opening Day dropped precipitously. The Syracuse Mets fell in a season-opening snooze fest at NBT Bank Stadium, losing 5-0 to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders. With both David Peterson and Tylor Megill traveling with the big league club in case of a need for Opening Day innings in...
Needing to add some pitching depth at the major league level this past offseason, the New York Mets traded starter Steven Matz to the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for a package of Sean Reid-Foley, Yennsy Diaz and Josh Winckowski, which is a move this team has largely benefited from so far. While Winckowski remained with the organization for all of just a few weeks, as he was ultimately sent in...
Just over a month and a half into the 2021 campaign, almost every organization across the major leagues has experienced an outbreak of injuries and that’s something the New York Mets have been plagued by as of late, as they currently have 12 total players on the injured list. Players on that list include Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Carlos Carrasco, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Luis...
