Category: Op-Ed
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Will the Mets augment the roster from the outside this summer?
As play begins on Tuesday, the Mets are 35-30 and 1 1/2 games ahead of the Nationals for the lead in the National League East. They’ve stayed in first place or within three games of first place the entire season. They’ve done all of this without David Wright since April 15, without Travis d’Arnaud for most of…
Michael Baron
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In a significant start, Noah Syndergaard showed a lot of pitching maturity
If Monday night’s start for Noah Syndergaard wasn’t his best performance of the year, it was certainly one of the more significant and notable starts to date. He was coming off two unusual starts during which he had pitched well but was forced to deal with a ton of bad luck with some bad execution mixed in. The…
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 light is back on for Juan Lagares
Juan Lagares was painfully struggling during the month of May, at one point going 11-for-72 with just one extra-base hit to his credit and five walks, seeing his batting average plummet from .311 to .253 and his OPS free fall from .692 to .591. It was a notable slump because he began to sag the day he…
Michael Baron
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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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