Mike Mehan

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The Zamboni has cleared the ice and we’re ready for a 9:20 p.m. ET puck drop Mets-Rockies.

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"It's about showing up every day giving you something to cheer about and thankfully today we freakin' did that, alright? Luke Weaver joins @SteveGelbs after the Mets snap their 12-game losing streak

JACK HUGHES. OUR GOLDEN BOY. OUR GOLDEN STAR.

@SamZComedy @The7Line @Miss_Met @Mets

If you are at the #mets game today 8/30, I want to try an experiment. My kid got picked for the HR derby. If you can record him on the big screen and reply to this post, I want to make a video of all the different angles. During bot 2nd Help me out @The7Line @Miss_Met @Mets

I absolutely love this picture. It’s from Imagn Images in today’s ⁦@nypost⁩, taken as Jonah Tong walked in from the bullpen before the start of his big league debut last night. Look at his wondrous, almost childlike expression as though he was entering Disneyland. Awesome!

SWEEP! Make it TEN straight home wins for the @Mets vs. the Phillies.

This may be my favorite shot of the entire season.

The parabolic mic prop making an appearance with @maxisawiener is the 2024/25 mashup we all needed

The Mets have lost all of these games in the last three weeks… The pain never ends.

Tarp is on the field as rain beginning to push into the city with the worst of the rain splitting the area. Delay is looking pretty likely, but it does clear up in a few hours. Should be able to play after the delay. #LGM

In celebration of Pete Alonso becoming the @Mets all-time home run leader, here is a progressive timeline of the leaders throughout the franchise’s history #LGM ⚾️🍎🐻‍❄️

Some rare frustration from Francisco Lindor

Ugh.

Great question, John. For most of baseball history, the walk was sneered at -- a lesser form of getting on base compared to the exceptional skill it takes to swing. The analytical revolution in the game changed that. If the objective of the game is to outscore a team, then the likeliest way to score runs is for people to get on base. Post-Moneyball, on-base percentage replaced batting average as more reliable metric for helping produce runs. Batting average was almost a victim of its own popularity, though. Because it does matter. It's just not the first determinant of a baseball player's quality. Sometimes I do fear the pendulum has swung too far in the anti-batting-average direction. Let's take three players as examples, with their batting averages, on-base percentages and slugging percentages: Manny Machado: .302/.361/.507 Juan Soto: .248/.383/.486 Eugenio Suárez: .248/.319/.572 Three totally different hitters. Machado is balanced and batting average-heavy. Soto’s average is deflated but he’s an on-base savant thanks to the highest walk rate in the major leagues. Suárez is a masher whose high slug is his calling card. So who’s the best? Well, if you’re judging by a metric called weighted on-base average, which seeks to be a catch-all offensive number that is park-neutral … they are pretty much identical. It goes to show: Offensively, there are plenty of ways to be really good. A great batting average is never a bad thing. But a poor one, as Soto and Suárez illustrate, does not doom you to mediocrity.

Ten summers ago, Wilmer Flores showed us that crying in baseball was okay. I will never forget “Five Days in Flushing”.

We traded no one today

I think our fan base is being a little too hard on the SP. We have had one of the better rotation in all of baseball (STATISTICALLY) and haven’t had our best 2 guys healthy for large stretches throughout the year. They will be off pitch limits soon and we also have very high level prospects… I think adding 3 high level BP arms was a much more glaring issue and was a lot more important.