The Mets need to improve their bullpen. That is alarmingly clear to anyone who watched the team in 2018. They have some interesting arms but ultimately, they need to a better job of building a bullpen. How does a team do that though? The easy answer is throwing a lot of money at it or trading for the big named reliever on the market. Sometimes that works out but sometimes, that also does not....
The Mets have been looking to move starter Dillon Gee since the winter meetings in December, but a trade has yet to materialize. Last week Joel Sherman of the NY Post reported that the Mets will likely need top free agent pitcher James Shields to sign first before they can make a deal. However, an MLB executive recently told Jayson Stark of ESPN that teams are currently “in bottom feeding...
Brandon Allen has some surprising power in his bat. This kid has hit a pair of towering home runs in his short and nondescript career. The first was a 435 foot home run at Yankee Stadium, and the second was this mammoth blast at Chase Field off Yovani Gallardo. It was the longest home run ever hit to right field. Check it out… [iframe]<iframe...
BREWERS (72-87) at METS (73-86) RHP Yovani Gallardo (11-10, 4.23) vs. RHP Carlos Torres (4-5, 3.36) Starting Lineup Eric Young, Jr. – LF Lucas Duda – 1B Daniel Murphy – 2B Justin Turner – 3B Andrew Brown – RF Juan Lagares – CF Travis d’Arnaud – C Wilfredo Tovar – SS Carlos Torres – RHP David Wright appears to have escaped serious injury when he was beaned by Johnny Hellweg with an 86 mph...
The Mets (73-86) lost to the Brewers (72-87) by a score of 4-2 on Thursday night at Citi Field. Dillon Gee took the ball for the final time this season, and struggled a bit. Dillon gave up 2 walks and 4 singles in the 2nd inning, which allowed Milwaukee to score the only 4 runs they would need. Gee did settle down after that, pitching scoreless ball the rest of the way before departing after the...
Mets (36-47) at Brewers (34-51) RHP Shaun Marcum (1-9, 5.03) vs. RHP Yovani Gallardo (6-8, 4.78) Starting Lineup Eric Young, Jr. – LF Daniel Murphy – 2B David Wright – 3B Ike Davis – 1B Marlon Byrd – RF Kirk Nieuwenhuis – CF John Buck C Omar Quintanilla – SS Shaun Marcum – RHP Game Notes Zack Wheeler made his fourth start of the season last night...
KIRK, KIRK, KIRK, KIRK, KIRK, KIRK… What a comedy of errors we had in this one as the New York Mets walloped the Milwaukee Brewers by the score of 12-5 tonight at Miller Park. This was a fun game and I hope you all got a chance to watch it. I’m going to forego a retelling of all the many Brewer baserunning blunders and just get to the stuff we really care about – what did the...
You could almost hear the Brewers bench let out a collective sigh of relief when they saw Pedro Feliciano take the mound for the ninth inning. No longer would they have to face a dominating Johan Santana who had held them in check for the first eight innings of the game. All they could muster was three hits against Johan, who effectively confounded the Astros all night with his fastball, slider...
