It was a sight for sore eyes for Mets fans Monday night. Pete Alonso returned from the injured list to hit his usual mammoth home run and drove in four runs. Jacob deGrom mowed down the Arizona Diamondbacks by striking out eight and allowing two hits in six scoreless innings. Kevin Pillar made his return by being a defensive replacement …
Here’s the beauty of sports: Things change in a week. One week, you can be bad. Next week, you can be great. In other words, you are not great as you are, and you are not as bad as you are. The Mets started the week by firing Chili Davis as Mets hitting coach and Tom Slater as Mets assistant …
Baseball wonks like to preach about not making much of a series in April. They say it’s early; they tell you the season is a marathon, not a sprint; they mention nothing is the same from one month to another. They use the tired cliche about teams not peaking until the summer. They are not wrong, but for a middling …
(Photo: Wendell Cruz — USA Today Sports) The Mets needed this. After a week that featured three losses, lousy hitting and awful relief, the Mets made up for all that stench by sweeping the Philadelphia Phillies in a doubleheader Tuesday at Citi Field. The Mets took a 4-3 Game 1 victory in eight innings, and they took a 4-0 Game …
Mets fans waited for this since Major League Baseball approved Steve Cohen’s purchase of the Mets for $2.5 billion in October. Only a cruel fate forced them to wait for four more days when Opening Day started around the majors on Thursday. Coronavirus plagued several Washington Nationals players that postponed Mets’ Opening Series matchup against the Nationals. Think you waited …
(Photo: Brad Penner — USA Today Sports) The Mets aired their first telecast on over-the-air TV Sunday afternoon. It was a big deal in the sense many people in the tri-state area cut the cord on cable or never had cable in the first place. Mets fans hoped it was Jacob deGrom that would make his 2021 debut that day …
It wasn’t the offense that doomed the Mets last season; it was the pitching. Outside of Jacob deGrom and David Peterson, the Mets starters offered nothing. Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello ended up as busts. Noah Syndergaard underwent Tommy John surgery. Marcus Stroman opted out last season over COVID-19 concerns. Steven Matz flamed out to the point the Mets demoted …
A good portion of people commends Marcus Stroman for putting his health and family first by opting out this season rather than pitch a game for the Mets – they are not wrong. A fair portion of Mets fans criticized Stroman for quitting on the Mets by not throwing a pitch and using COVID-19 as an excuse to not pitch …
Things have changed since I had called Madison Bumgarner the “ideal candidate for a trade the Yankees should make.” on June 14th. The San Francisco Giants have been on a tear, and Marcus Stroman has been amazing since then. On June 14th, Bumgarner had a 3.83 ERA, a 1.611 WHIP, a .256 BAA and striking out 84 batters, while also …
