One of the rites of Spring is being reminded all in baseball is not as it sounds. For example, sometimes you hear about pitchers going through “dead arm,” and your instinct is to freak out because dead surely sounds like an irreversible condition. But then you’re told, no, “dead arm” is a temporary malady, don’t […]
 
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 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Laffey, Al Jackson, Al Leiter, Bill Denehy, Bill Latham, Bob L. Miller, Carlos Carrasco, Craig Swan, Dave Mlicki, David Cone, David Peterson, Dillon Gee, Don Cardwell, Dwight Gooden, Elbow Soreness, Fifth Starters, Hank Webb, Harry Parker, Jason Vargas, Mark Bomback, Mark Clark, Nolan Ryan, Ray Sadecki, Rick Reed, Team History, Terry Leach So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged, stop-start 60-game baseball season, which the Mets proceeded to botch, passing up perhaps the easiest path to the playoffs ever available. Even beyond that, though, 2020 was what we now know […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Ariel Jurado, Baseball Cards, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Erasmo Ramirez, Franklyn Kilome, Guillermo Heredia, Hunter Strickland, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Michael Wacha, Miguel Castro, Rick Porcello, Robinson Chirinos, Ryan Cordell, The Holy Books The beginning of a baseball season is light and consequence-free — with six months of games ahead, you can relax a bit, allowing yourself to simply enjoy having baseball as a companion again. Starting in June, things begin to get serious — you’re conscious of the standings, of opportunities taken and missed and lost. This […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Guillermo Heredia, Juan Soto, Justin Wilson, Kurt Suzuki, Michael Conforto, Robinson Chirinos We finally have a marginally useful statistical comparison of sorts for this season that is statistically, logistically and aesthetically absolutely like no other. With the 2020 Mets having played 52 of a projected 60 games, we can line their season to date up against the only season when the Mets played 52 games in total, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, 2020 Mets, David Peterson, Losing Record, Short Seasons, Unusual Playoff Formats The Mets shuffled off from Buffalo with one more loss than win for their weekend’s work and three fewer games remaining on their truncated schedule, thereby humbling their already modest postseason chances. Not that they were much to begin with, but sooner or later, you can take only so much comfort from relative proximity to […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, David Peterson, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Nostalgia, September, Seth Lugo, Shadows, The West Wing, Todd Frazier “Whoa, there he is! Whadda you doin’ around here?” 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Erasmo Ramirez, Jeff McNeil, Labor Day, Michael Conforto, Miguel Castro, Zack Wheeler The Mets face challenges in this 60-game improv season: iffy defense, shredded starting pitching, an uncertain bullpen. An added challenge, for those of us watching from the socially distanced cheap seats, is how quickly it’s all going by. I don’t buy the each game is equal to four and change thing, because it has nothing to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Dom Smith, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Seth Romero, Tomas Nido This season, however it turns out, whether it turns out, will probably be remembered for other storylines, but churning beneath the surface of Mets Baseball 2020 is the churn itself. Have you noticed just how many players we’re going through a mere sixteen games in? When last season ended, the all-time Met count was up […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alternate Site, Andres Gimenez, Bill Sudakis, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Formal Introductions, Franklyn Kilome, Hunter Strickland, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Jimmie Schaffer, Lenny Harris, Met Debuts, Michael Conforto, Michael Wacha, Milestone Mets, Moises Alou, Pete Smith, Phil Mankowski, Randy Milligan, Rey Sanchez, Rick Porcello, Ryan Cordell, Scott Hairston, Team History, The Twilight Zone, Tyler Bashlor Hello from Long Beach Island, which has been our summer getaway every year but one since 2003. We booked this trip back in the spring, reasoning that this part of the Jersey Shore is normally pretty socially distanced anyway and the restaurant scene has never been the draw for us, so perhaps it wouldn’t be […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Drew Smith, J.D. Davis, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Justin Wilson, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo Every day of Improv Season 2020 is another moment to cock your head, say “huh” and try and figure things out. Most of that’s been a little anxious. I know Citi Field well enough that just seeing its geometry was enough for my sense of familiarity to kick in and make me think, “I can work […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Debuts, Dillon Gee, Fenway Park, Pandemics, Red Sox |
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