Re-Organizing The Order
by Baseball’s new approach to lineup construction has altered the way teams value player characteristics. Still, the Mets have a glaring hole in their lineup and no plans to fix it.
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Monday Mets: Herd Inadequacy
How can a team filled with good-to-great players have such an underachieving season? It wasn’t supposed to be this way, was it? I mean, sure, …
Monday Mets: Best-Laid Plans
Very little has gone as intended for this year’s Mets. Yet, here we are, one week after the All-Star break, with two of the team’s …
Monday Mets: The Cavalry Is Coming
It’s been almost 2 months since Brandon Nimmo and JD Davis left a game early against the Phillies and soon found themselves on the Injured …
Monday Mets: Talking Rojas Seriously
Despite all sorts of challenges the Mets find are still in first place, and it’s about time the role that Luis Rojas has played is …
Monday Mets: Mob Deep
With a team-wide slow offensive start, as well as a slew of early-season injuries, the Mets have had to rely on their bench players more …
Monday Mets: The Letdown
After months of building anticipation, extended by the Nationals bout with COVID, the Mets finally got to play baseball and it did not go well. …
Monday Mets: Mel & Ed Preview The 2021 Season
Opening Day is this Thursday, so I have asked Mel and Ed to share their thoughts on the upcoming season. In case you’ve forgotten or …
Monday Mets: All Walk, No Run
As of this morning, the Mets lead the majors in On-Base Percentage. If you’re as surprised to learn that as I was, that’s probably because …
Monday Mets: The More Things Change…
Three games into the season and it’s obvious that we should brace ourselves for the unusual. The season is only 60 games long. The National …