Category: Michael Baron

• Wilmer Flores had a week to forget, both offensively and defensively

  Wilmer Flores would probably like to hit the reset button the start of his season right now. On Friday, Flores committed two throwing errors, all of which came on poor throws to first base. He made a couple of other poor throws which could have also resulted in errors if not for Michael Cuddyer picking him…

  Michael Baron

  April 13, 2015

  Michael Baron, Op-Ed

• Could Jenrry Mejia have acted out of carelessness?

  

  “Selfishness.” “Ignorance.” “Lying.”  Those are three words often associated with baseball players associated with performance enhancing drugs. In the case of Jenrry Mejia, he certainly took the ignorance route upon being suspended for using stanazolol, a banned steroid in baseball, on Saturday afternoon. “I know the rules are the rules and I will accept my…

  Michael Baron

  April 13, 2015

  Michael Baron, Op-Ed

• Dillon Gee became predictable on Saturday, and he got smoked

    When Dillon Gee uses his all of his pitches and his change-up in particular, he can be a very effective mid-rotation starter. Gee was certainly throwing his change-up for strikes on Saturday night – he threw 81.8 percent of those pitches for strikes and got the Braves to swing at it 15 times. However, of the…

  Michael Baron

  April 12, 2015

  Michael Baron, Op-Ed

• The Mets offense has been non-existent over the first week

    Here are the Mets offensive statistics through the first five games of the season: .196 average (26th in MLB) .264 OBP (24th in MLB) .252 SLG (30th in MLB) 2 Home Runs (27th in MLB) 32 hits (t-23rd in MLB) 16 runs (18th in MLB, and 8 of those runs are unearned) 13 walks…

  Michael Baron

  April 12, 2015

  Michael Baron, Op-Ed

• Sean Gilmartin made his big league debut, and did his job

  24-year-old LHP Sean Gilmartin toiled around the Braves and Twins minor league systems since being selected by Atlanta in the first round of the 2011 first-year player draft. He joined the Twins organization before the 2014 in a trade for Ryan Doumit, and was assigned to Double-A New Britain. He spent half a year there and pitched well, earning a…

  Michael Baron

  April 11, 2015

  Michael Baron, Op-Ed