Pity the newsbreaker tasked with delivering momentous tidings on April 1, a date which, for some strange reason, gives everyone processing such information pause to wonder if it’s real. Indeed, it would be swell if the bulletin from the late afternoon of April 1, 2022 — that Jacob deGrom’s right shoulder is something short of […]
 
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Hi again, Chasen Shreve — and you, too, Matt Reynolds and Johneshwy Fargas. The Mets decided to solve their lefthanded bullpen void by rewinding to 2020 and snatching up the perfectly capable Shreve, who by coming back after a season in Pittsburgh gets the chance to break free of his Silent Generation designation. May the […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Brad Hand, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Good Health, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonathan Villar, Matt Reynolds, NL East Four-Timers Club, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano, Safety, Schedules, Spring Training, Travis Jankowski It’s been the year of Jacob deGrom so often for most of the past decade that you’d think it would be hard to discern when it isn’t the year of Jacob deGrom. Jacob deGrom was named by this blog as the Richie Ashburn Most Valuable Met of 2014, 2017 and 2018. Jacob deGrom wasn’t named […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Miguel Castro, Most Valuable Met, Relief Pitching, Trevor May So far, the highlight of Max Scherzer’s career as a New York Met is he has agreed to a contract of $130 million over three years to be a New York Met. It won’t show up in the main statistical body of Scherzer’s Baseball-Reference entry, but it’s more than a lot of recent Mets have […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2022 Mets, Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, Megacontracts, Optimism, Steve Cohen The Mets went out at the trade deadline and did something about the hole they considered perilous in their middle infield, acquiring somebody with both a stellar defensive background and a world championship pedigree, a player with a fairly unique offensive profile. He has only a couple of months left on his existing contract, so […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Black Jerseys, Carlos Carrasco, Jacob deGrom, Javier Baez, Luis Castillo, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Team History, Trade Deadline, Trevor Williams Well, that wasn’t much fun. The Mets were forced to start TBD — again! So they turned to Jerad Eickhoff — again! And it didn’t go well — again! Eickhoff, you may recall, had already been DFA’d twice by the Mets this year. He opted for free agency, but signed another minor-league deal and reported for duty […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, David Peterson, Jacob deGrom, Jerad Eickhoff, Jon Matlack, Nightmarish Pitching Performances, Noah Syndergaard, Rich Hill Stop me if you’ve heard these before: 1) The Mets win a thriller of a first game of a jury-rigged doubleheader. We’ve been down this two-lane highway that runs out of regulation road too soon too many times to count efficiently of […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Boxberger, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Anderson, Brewers, Bruce Boxleitner, Corbin Burnes, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Humidity Night, Jacob deGrom, Jamoches, Jeff McNeil, Jose Peraza, Mama's of Corona, Nick Tropeano, Robert Stock, Seven-Inning Scams Give this much to the Mets during their current run of troubles: They’re finding new ways to lose. But then that’s appropriate for the ballpark they were trapped in Thursday night: White Flight Stadium (or whatever the Braves are calling their shameful taxpayer-extorted shrine to suburbia these days) may not quite be the house of horrors […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Braves Who Are Pains in the Ass, Dom Smith, Ehire Adrianza, Ender Inciarte, Freddie Freeman, Guillermo Heredia, Jacob deGrom, Luis Guillorme, Ronald Acuna Jr., Seth Lugo, Walkoff Losses For my birthday I went back to Citi Field, and that was wonderful, even with zip-tied seats for social distancing and vaccination checks and mandatory masks. Last week I went to my second game and it was even nicer, because those three things were gone and the only strange note was how normal all the […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Hector Neris, Jacob deGrom, Jersey Shore Blueclaws, Kevin Pillar, Lowell Spinners, Luis Guillorme, Luke Williams, Michael Conforto, Pandemics, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Ronny Mauricio, Travis Blankenhorn This town is called Splitsville. It was created by an act of Manfred. Splitsville measures seven innings wide and seven innings long — and seven innings wide and seven innings long all over again. Some folks say there’s a couple of innings missing on each side of town. I don’t know about that. But if […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blondie, Bonehead Baserunning, Doubleheaders, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jerad Eickhoff, Splits |
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