If you’ve had your fill of Mets angst and drama (and who hasn’t) you might have missed Sandy Alderson’s contention yesterday that the Mets should be better than their putrid record because their run differential (currently at -6) suggests they ought to be nearly a .500 team rather than one staring way, way up at […]
 
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I’m not even mad anymore. What’s the use? A couple of quick factoids: The Mets are horrible in one-run games — a hard-to-accomplish 10-20. (Only the Royals are comparably bad at 9-16, which is pretty much the difference between them and the Tigers.) Some of that — quite possibly a lot of that — is probably buzzards’ luck. But it counts, and it’s […] The National League East is a mess. In every other division, run differential is a pretty fair predictor of W-L record. In the NL East, the run differentials by place in the standings currently look like this: 0, +39, -5, -1, -40. The 0 squad is the Braves, in first place by the thinnest of […] Welp, the little black cloud is back. This was a 2014 Mets game concocted from all-too-familiar ingredients: The recipe calls for mostly good starting pitching, a pretty good bullpen, no offense, some fundamentally dumb baseball, a dash of tragedy and a pinch of farce. Stir for nearly four hours and you get an aggravating, annoying loss. I said […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Josh Edgin, Josh Harrison, Ruben Tejada, Umpiring, Vic Black It’s dangerous to saddle wins or losses with caveats. Wins are good, losses are bad. You depart from this simple equation at your peril. The Mets put themselves in an eight-run hole tonight against the A’s, as Zack Wheeler had no feel whatsoever for his curveball and iffy location with everything. (He also claimed the A’s had […] Hey, sometimes you can develop players and win games at the same time! It helps when the young player in question has the arsenal of Zack Wheeler and the command of that arsenal shown by the Zack Wheeler we saw Thursday night. I differentiate the two not to be snarky, but because that’s the way it […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Marlins, Patience, Paul Wilson, PItching, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler I called the Mets boring yesterday, and I’ll stick with that — if the Mets are exciting, it’s generally because something horrible is happening to them, and more often than not the horrible thing that’s happening is their own fault. But there is an exception: Bartolo Colon is not boring. He’s not exciting either, and that’s the […] Thanks to the technological marvels of the day, I didn’t go Mets-less during nearly a week in Iceland. Maybe we don’t have flying cars yet, but I did use my phone to sit out in the post-midnight sunshine in rural Iceland listening to the Mets playing baseball on the other side of the world. My childhood […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Fans, Jonathon Niese, Lucas Duda You can all thank me now. In the bottom of the sixth, with the bases loaded and two outs and 981st Met in history Taylor Teagarden at the plate, something I’d been wondering about for a day or two finally coalesced in my head, and so — as happens these days — emerged as a tweet. Serious Q: […] On Saturday we threw a party to watch the Belmont Stakes. I enjoyed the bourbon a little too enthusiastically, fell asleep before the Mets starting playing and woke up hours after the game was over. It was the best Mets experience of my week. Today’s game wasn’t quite as infuriating a gag job as Saturday’s, but it followed […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Sandy Alderson, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores |
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