Category: Op-Ed
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Month in review: An up and down May for the Mets
After what was a successful and quite honestly a surprising month of April, the Mets and a good portion of their fanbase were a confident bunch entering the second month of the season; and there was good reason to be excited. Coming into May the team was 15-8 and lead the National League East by…
Rich MacLeod
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Jeurys Familia is now an elite closer in Major League Baseball
Once upon a time, Jeurys Familia was viewed as a starting pitcher. That was the vision as late as 2012 when Familia was in Triple-A Buffalo. He was coming off a solid season in 2011 as a starting pitcher between Single-A St. Lucie and Double-A Binghamton,c combining to go 5-5 with a 2.0 ERA in 23…
Michael Baron
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For now, Terry Collins has found stability at third base in an unlikely player
Prior to last week, the Mets had used 143 third basemen in their history, although for the last 11 seasons, the position had been stabilized by David Wright. But now that there are more questions than answers surrounding Wright’s future, third base has once again become a revolving door over the first eight weeks of the…
Michael Baron
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Bartolo Colon’s mystifying consistency
It’s difficult to quantify the consistency of Bartolo Colon. He doesn’t do anything with glitz, flare or power. In fact, Colon is the anti-glitz, flare or power. Perhaps the best way to quantify Colon’s consistency is mystifying. He leads the National League with eight wins against only three loses. While his ERA is 4.72, that can…
Michael Baron
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Ruben Tejada is off to a good start at third, seizing the new opportunity
It hasn’t been an easy road for Ruben Tejada. He was anointed the Mets shortstop when Jose Reyes departed for the Marlins after the 2011 season. In the first half of the 2012 season, the club looked like they could do ok without Reyes, as despite not possessing the lex Tejada was hitting .325 with a .381 on-base percentage.…
Michael Baron
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