Category: Feature Stories
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What is the identity of the 2015 Mets?
The Mets are 40 percent through their regular season schedule, having won 36 of their first 66 games with 96 games remaining. But since they started their season 13-3, the club has gone 23-27 in 50 games since. The Mets are obviously not an .812 team, but they’re probably not a .460 team, either. The…
Michael Baron
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Matt Harvey’s fire returned on Tuesday night…
Matt Harvey was in the midst of the greatest mound test of his brilliant young career. He had a 7.20 ERA in his last four starts and had allowed eight home runs during that span. “Terrible,” was the word he used on several occasions after his start last Thursday against the Giants. After that start,…
Michael Baron
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The Mets need to figure out the eighth inning, and find a reliever
Markdown Wednesday’s unavailable reliever: Bobby Parnell. He was asked to record a five out save, and truly save the Mets from a heartbreaking loss on Tuesday night when he inherited a bases loaded, one out jam in the eighth inning. He did allow two inherited runners to score, but it could have and should have been…
Michael Baron
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The story of the 2015 Mets has been defined by resiliency
Resiliency. One of those intangibles in sports that cannot be quantified or even necessarily defined, but you know when you have it and you know when you don’t. What the New York Mets have shown of late – and pretty much all year – is just that. I’d argue this team has been resilient all…
Rich MacLeod
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The six-man rotation experiment is failing for the Mets
The Mets attempt at a number of different iterations of a six-man rotation has mostly gone bad to this point in the season. The Mets used a spot starter at the end of April, but then offered what appeared as a commitment to a longer-term six-man rotation when they inserted Dillon Gee as number six on…
Michael Baron
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