The LoHud Mets Blog

A blog by LoHud about New York Mets baseball

A Positive Trend? (With Jon Niese AUDIO)

Sure, if you wanted to, you could find negative trends all day for the New York Mets. 10-23 in their last 33. 2-11 in their last 13 at home. Ike Davis, 1-for-his-last what, 200? A pair of things happened in the midst of this sweep by the Reds that I… Read More →

Gee and Niese: Already Going

At Terry Collins’s press conference last night, he had a kind of throwaway line that caught my attention. Asked about the 1-2 punch of R.A. Dickey and Johan Santana, Collins said this: “For us to succeed, for us to have a big summer, we’ve got to get Dillon [Gee] and… Read More →

How The Mets Stack Up: Starting Pitching

Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that the Mets have their five starting pitchers make most/all of their scheduled starts this year. The result would be a rotation of Johan Santana, R.A. Dickey, Jon Niese, Mike Pelfrey and Dillon Gee. No starts from Miguel Batista would be necessary, Matt… Read More →