When evaluating exactly who can help the New York Mets improve upon their horrific 2012 bullpen performance, I keep returning to Greg Burke, signed early in the offseason, and already added to the 40-man roster. This may seem like wishful thinking, and to a certain extent, it is. Burke hasn’t… Read More →
I awoke this morning to see that Metspolice was advocating for the song that’s served as my ringtone for much of the winter. I defy you to listen to that song and not look forward to baseball season. I was once told by someone high up that “market research” showed… Read More →
The Mets have officially signed Brandon Lyon to a one-year deal. Ken Rosenthal reported the guaranteed money is between $750K and $900K, with incentives potentially pushing him to $2.4 million. Both are great moves; guaranteeing a guy who, as I wrote last week, would be better than anything the Mets… Read More →
The free agency of outfielder Michael Bourn has turned into a high-stakes card game between the New York Mets and Bourn’s agent, Scott Boras, in which both sides appear to be bluffing. On the one hand, there’s Boras, who has repeatedly claimed his clients have offers beyond those rumored in… Read More →
Adam Rubin has the Mets casting a wide net for bullpen help, and that certainly makes sense. Sandy Alderson isn’t confident about Frank Francisco at closer, nor should he be. And the group as a whole needs some more givens. Last season’s 29th ranked group in both ERA and (they… Read More →
“We continue to look, but I think, realistically at this point, there’s not a lot left on the shelf,” general manager Sandy Alderson said on Sirius XM’s MLB Network Radio yesterday. “So at some point we have to realize that, well, perhaps the outfield is not the strength of our… Read More →
As usual, we all awoke this morning to news that the Mets had signed a major league free agent. And by “as usual”, of course, I mean “for the first time all winter”. Still, the acquisition of Shaun Marcum on a one-year deal is a good one. Marcum, with a… Read More →
We’re at the point where the team’s own general manager is complaining on WFAN about the state of the team, and his own winter progress in improving it. We’re at the point where ZIPS projects four Mets to produce even league average offense, measured by OPS+. Of those four, one… Read More →
So arguably the three finest days of the 2012 season were Banner Day, Johan Santana’s No-Hitter, and R.A. Dickey’s 20th victory. The Mets could only plan one of them. To their credit, they recognized the success, and planned a repeat Banner Day for Sunday, May 26. Through no fault of… Read More →
So I tackled the news that the Mets have borrowed another $700 million, almost certainly against their SNY ownership stake, here. But I just want to point out exactly why the valuation, and sum that came with, is a worst-case scenario, as I described this morning on Twitter. The Mets… Read More →
Hope this helps. Special thanks to Baseball Mogul for helping to get us all through the winter, sane.
The news that the Mets signed Andrew Brown, recently of the Colorado organization, was met by the usual array of derision and defense of the Mets that seems all too common on Twitter right now. This is not merely a Mets phenomenon: generally, criticism draws accusations of nihilist negativity, support… Read More →
Let’s take a quick look at how the current Mets stack up to their counterparts, the 2003 Mets. Catcher: Mike Piazza/Vance Wilson vs. John Buck/Travis d’Arnaud: Advantage has to go to the 2003 Mets, who received a 126 OPS+ from Piazza over 273 plate appearances. The gap was expected to… Read More →
No one can say what the future brings. But David Wright, who turns 30 today, has already been the best player through age 30 in the history of the New York Mets. Take a look. As per WAR, through age 30: Wright has a total of 39.1. That’s better than… Read More →
What do you do when you need an entire outfield, another starter, a bullpen, catching depth, and starting pitching depth (according to your own general manager)? Furthermore, to do it you have, reportedly, only $7 million to spend, since the $15 million deferred of Jason Bay’s $21 million owed in… Read More →