Tag: Jerry Blevins
Know Your 2018 … Friends? Your New York Mets
Updated:Consider yourselves lucky, kids. You’re getting not one, but TWO Mets previews in two days! The first one came yesterday. The…
Read more »2017 Was a Year To Forget For New York Mets
2017 comes to an end today, and the New York Mets will be happy to put it into the history…
Read more »Useless Drama: Asdrubal Returns
Updated:The Mets took care of some housekeeping today as they have picked up the club option on Asdrubal Cabrera for…
Read more »Report: New York Mets Will Pick Up Jerry Blevins’ Option For 2018
In news that falls into the obvious category, the New York Mets will pick up the 2018 option for relief…
Read more »Mike’s Mets Player Review Series: Jerry Blevins
Now that the 2017 season is over for the New York Mets, we have been looking back at the year…
Read more »2017 Mets Season In Review: Bullpen
Now that the 2017 season is over, its time to take a look back at the year that was for…
Read more »New York Mets Post Worst Month Since 2012 in August
The New York Mets are definitively playing out the string, but things haven’t been pretty. Thanks to a series of…
Read more »Was That … Fun?
After blowing a 5-0 lead built on a three run home run by Asdrubal Cabrera and a two run home…
Read more »La Propenso a Lesiones
I’ve been thinking a lot over the last week or so how nice it is to see Yoenis Cespedes play…
Read more »Net Positive
7-6 victories over the Phillies mean very little at this point … other than the fact that the Mets currently own…
Read more »A Clear Directive
There is always a lot of chatter regarding the baseball draft about drafting for need rather than “best available athlete”….
Read more »A Different Form Is Coming
I got a late start to a television for the Mets game. But before I got to the television, I…
Read more »Pining For Oakland?
Back in 1988, Darryl Strawberry was asked about someday playing for the Dodgers, returning to his roots in Southern California….
Read more »Jacob deGrom Is The Baseball Brodie
I’m starting to think Jacob deGrom is the Russell Westbrook of the Mets. He’s won seven straight starts now after…
Read more »The Malaise Is Here, Is The Rebirth Coming?
The Mets lost to the Cardinals 5-0 on Tuesday. They had three hits and three errors. The errors screwed over…
Read more »Ten Ways the Mets Can Save The Season
Okay, so it sure as hell seems like Michael Conforto striking out in the All-Star game against Craig Kimbrel with…
Read more »A Battle Art Howe Would Have Been Proud Of
You know you’re in for a weird game when Jacob deGrom scatters four hits in the first four innings, and…
Read more »The One That Got Away (Whether it be Game or Season)
Not that it’s a full proof plan to predict baseball outcomes based on starting pitching matchups, but Matz vs. Strasburg…
Read more »Predictably Numb
I was away for most of the Mets’ 6-3 loss to the Dodgers. While it seemed like one of those…
Read more »The Wolves Are at the Door, Zack Wheeler Shuts it Tight
Yu Darvish is one of those pitchers I would pay to see live. The guy has 47 pitches from all…
Read more »Triple Dingers And Double Duty
So I see the Mets have thrown back to 2016 for Saturday’s 4-2 win over Pittsburgh: Get good pitching, and…
Read more »I’ll Need Something Stronger Than a Pill
Whoever said “better the devil you know” has never watched a baseball game. Because once you know a devil, you…
Read more »Birthday Absurdity
I know, I know. It was the FOX characters in the booth instead of our trusty SNY overlords. But Kenny…
Read more »It’s The Kind Of Insanity That Requires Effort
Correct me if I’m wrong, but we’re in the era of the super reliever, right? We saw it with Andrew…
Read more »Embarrassed … In Front Of Buster Posey
Cannonball Run is a movie that hasn’t had a reboot in a while. But the Mets proved today that it…
Read more »Successful Triage
If this season turns around because Terry Collins gave his standard “no more excuses” speech at the end of Thursday’s loss,…
Read more »Jose Reyes Wobbles And The Ball Falls Down
It was all going so swimmingly. The Mets had a 2-1 lead over the Phillies at Citi Field. Zack Wheeler…
Read more »Hosing Down Charred Wood
On nights like these … during series like these … where teams are dead tired due to long extra innings…
Read more »Infuriatingly and Frustratingly Beautiful
It’s what makes baseball infuriatingly beautiful, right? Thursday night, the Mets win a game they have no business winning. Then…
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