Mets Hitting

How Axl Rose Can Help the Mets

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Axl Rose ponders the Mets' hitting woesLast night when Tom Glavine walked out to the mound, he had the wrong Guns N Roses song playing. Instead of Sweet Child O’ Mine, it should have been Patience.

Yes, the Mets won the game, and they won on Monday as well. But their offense is still atrocious — they’ve accumulated only 6 runs and 11 hits in their last 27 innings of play. In 26 innings pitched against them, they’ve seen a total of 387 pitches — which comes out to an average of just under 15 pitches per inning (14.8 to be exact).

To get an idea of where this 14.8 pitches per inning falls in the grand scheme of things,

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Beltran – Marquee Player?

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Now that everyone around him is hitting again, we may see Carlos Beltran go on a tear. There’s an article at Flushing University questioning whether Beltran is a marquee player — or the type of guy who can carry a team all by himself. What’s your thought? Read the article and enter the forum at … Read more

How Einstein Can Help the Mets

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Over and over during the Mets’ last 16 games, we keep hearing utterances such as “…we’ll get out of this thing …” , “… we have to ride it out … ” , ” … we have to get through it …” , and etc. This 13 losses out of 16 games slump is a … Read more

Down Must Go Down

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Oliver Perez did not pitch well on Wednesday night, but he did not deserve to lose. In the postgame comments, Willie Randolph alluded to Ollie’s struggles with his command, and suggested that the team was looking for a well-pitched ballgame, ” … maybe win 1-0, 2-1 … ” Huh? Willie, you must be joking. The … Read more

Mets: Lackluster or Lacking?

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After the Mets lost two of three from the Diamondbacks, the team’s vocal leaders — Paul LoDuca and Billy Wagner — suggested that they needed to turn up the intensity. Quoth Wagner: “We can’t go out and play the type of baseball we’ve played the last three games. We can’t play this lackluster. We have … Read more