Category: Michael Baron
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Sean Gilmartin has been tremendous, deserves more high-leverage situations…
Heading into spring training, the notion Sean Gilmartin could make the Mets, let alone have a tremendous impact on the left side of the bullpen was pretty far fetched. He was selected by the Mets in the 2014 Rule 5 draft at the conclusion of the Winter Meetings last December in San Diego, having spent four…
Michael Baron
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Collins: R.A. Dickey’s greatest value was the return in trade
Before the 2010 season, Omar Minaya signed then-journeyman R.A. Dickey to spring training and invited him to big league camp. He really didn’t stand out that spring – he made one start and one relief appearance and allowed five runs in five innings before being among the first cuts from big league camp. So Dickey went…
Michael Baron
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Jon Niese has made some strides, but the team still isn’t winning when he starts
The good news for Jon Niese is he appears to be past what was arguably the most ineffective period of his eight-year career. The bad news is, he and the team are still not winning the games he pitches in very much – they are 4-9 in games in which Niese starts in 2015, the Mets…
Michael Baron
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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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After a slow start, Darrell Ceciliani is solidifying the Mets bench
Darrell Ceciliani seemed destined to play a full season with Triple-A Las Vegas at the beginning of the year. But when Kirk Nieuwenhuis helped defined the club’s inept bench with his 3-for-38 start, the Mets called upon Ceciliani to replace Nieuwenhuis as the primary bat off the bench from the left side. Things weren’t rosy for Ceciliani…
Michael Baron
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