Category: New York Mets

A summer full of hand-wringing about wins and losses, the value of pitcher WAR and the nature of run prevention seemed a distant memory on Wednesday, when the Baseball Writers’ Association of America crowned Jacob deGrom the National League Cy Young Award winner in a blowout. Garnering 207 points to Max Scherzer’s 123, deGrom became the sixth Cy Young winner... more

Throughout this decade, the Mets have negotiated some of their most significant player contracts with Brodie Van Wagenen. They have now completed an entirely different deal with one of professional baseball’s most powerful player agents. The Mets have agreed with Van Wagenen to become their general manager, according to a source. The move will become official this week. A 44-year-old... more

On the last weekend of September, an amped-up crowd showed up to Citi Field on Friday to see David Wright’s first at-bat since May 27, 2016. For Corey Oswalt and these young pitchers out of the bullpen, playing in this sort of atmosphere was unlike anything they had ever experienced before in the big leagues. After the Mets announced prior... more

There is still baseball to be played across the country. In Los Angeles, the Dodgers and Rockies will contest a 163rd game to determine the NL West winner. Two Wild Card games remain, and three other rounds of postseason play. At the end of each, clubhouse attendants will hang plastic sheets in the winning team’s clubhouse, protecting valuables from the... more

Steven Matz did basically everything one man could to put the Mets in a position to win, but a disastrous sixth inning sunk New York in a 5-2 loss to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday night. The Mets took a two-run lead into the sixth thanks to the multi-tool performance from Matz, who hit a solo home... more

Jose Reyes has accrued 394 plate appearances at Citizens Bank Park over the years, and many of them have offered outcomes more interesting than when he pinch-hit for Noah Syndergaard in the top of the fifth inning of the Mets’ eventual 4-0 loss to the Phillies on Wednesday night. Reyes struck out after Tomas Nido did the same, and three... more

Given a chance to push the last man standing against Jacob deGrom out of the National League Cy Young race, the Mets at least prevented Max Scherzer from changing the texture of it. Michael Conforto and Jay Bruce hit back-to-back home runs on Thursday, ensuring that Scherzer — the only NL pitcher who still had a chance at reaching 20... more

Outside of a few aches and pains here and there, the Mets’ rotation has stayed remarkably healthy this season. A group with significant injury concerns heading into the spring has quelled nearly all of them, with Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Zack Wheeler and Steven Matz in particular combining to start 111 of the team’s first 155 games. As a result,... more

With each passing game, what Jeff McNeil is doing seems like less of a fluke. The prospect of him repeating it grows more plausible. The idea of keeping him as the Mets’ regular second baseman next season appears increasingly smart. It is difficult to deny what McNeil has accomplished over his first two months in the big leagues, rapping out... more

Despite being one of the better pitchers in the National League, Noah Syndergaard will still be kept up at night by the Braves, wondering what more he could have done. Atlanta is the one team in the National League (besides the Mets) against whom Syndergaard does not have a win. That tradition continued on Tuesday at Citi Field, when the... more

They stuck around afterward, most of their feet rooted to the concrete, some on tiptoes craning for a better look. A few minutes earlier, Jacob deGrom had thrown the final pitch of the best season of his life — one of the best seasons, by some measures, of any pitcher in modern Major League history. He walked off the mound... more

Five hours and 35 minutes after their doubleheader was supposed to begin, the Mets and Marlins finally took the field at 9:45 p.m. ET Wednesday at Citi Field. It was enough time for them to crank out an official game, but not enough for them to play two. As a result, the teams will return to Citi for a doubleheader... more

It seems as if the sun has not shined in Flushing, Queens, in over a week. The weather has had a significant effect on the Mets’ game schedule the past few days and it has been even more difficult for the Mets’ starting pitchers who have been anxiously awaiting their outings as the rain dictated the play. Similar to Jacob... more

As soon as the Mets announced they would combat Major League Baseball’s best offense with a rookie spot starter on a pitch count on Saturday, it became clear that the Mets planned to lean heavily on their bullpen. That’s not necessarily a bad thing for a team evaluating all of its arms heading into the winter, with bullpen help a... more

The Mets’ inability to support Jacob deGrom has done nothing to mute his routine excellence. If anything, the Mets’ foibles have only underscored it, giving deGrom, with two starts remaining, a realistic chance to win the National League Cy Young Award despite a losing record. Allowing three runs in seven innings Sunday at Fenway Park, deGrom extended his Major League... more

Zack Wheeler silenced any concerns that he might be fatigued in the Mets’ 9-4 win over the Phillies on Monday night at Citizens Bank Park. Wheeler, the club’s’ breakthrough pitcher of the second half, powered through a rough fifth inning to again go deep into the game, this time lasting seven frames. Robert Gsellman, Daniel Zamora and Drew Smith came... more

The last link of the Mets’ rotation to prosper, Steven Matz, spent much of this season struggling through injuries and inconsistencies while the other members of the team’s rotation — Jacob deGrom, Zack Wheeler, even Jason Vargas — began thriving. Matz has now apparently joined that group. Striking out a career-high 11, Matz fired seven innings of one-run ball for... more