Category: Feature Stories
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Are the Mets banking too much on their crop of starting pitchers?
In the wake of the news Zack Wheeler has become the latest pitcher to require a year long absence resulting from a torn elbow ligament, I’ve found myself asking a lot of questions internally. I’m not talking about the issue surrounding these blown out elbows in the game. I talked about those here yesterday, and…
Michael Baron
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Injuries, questions, shifting roles and trying to project the Mets bullpen
Over a period of just three days, the pitching landscape for the Mets has changed pretty drastically for opening day. What was once a pitching staff with maybe one opening has turned into a situation where multiple auditions could exist. With Zack Wheeler being shelved for the season, Terry Collins said on Monday Dillon Gee will re-enter the…
Michael Baron
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Zack Wheeler’s case history, and the ongoing epidemic in baseball
Sandy Alderson clearly sounded upset and angry during today’s call with reporters about Zack Wheeler’s torn elbow ligament. In fact, I can’t ever remember Sandy sounding like that in public. I can’t blame him. It’s a terrible day for the Mets, and yet another terrible day for baseball. The club is now scrambling for a replacement, and…
Michael Baron
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David Wright, assessing his past, and putting faith into his future
All winter, I’ve almost made an assumption David Wright’s 2014 campaign was a fluke. As a fan, I am banking on that assumption. So is the team. In fact, they’re desperately hoping it was a fluke. By his own admission, it was an awful year for the now 10-year major league veteran. He saw a reduction in…
Michael Baron
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Zack Wheeler’s elbow uncertainty enforces Sandy Alderson’s hesitance to trade pitching
Josh Edgin is getting Tommy John surgery, and the left side of the bullpen is in shambles so far this Spring, but while Mets fans see this as more reason to trade Dillon Gee for a left-hander, Sandy Alderson sees it differently, especially with the now uncertainty of Zack Wheeler‘s elbow. “This possibility or a possibility of something…
Rich MacLeod
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