Author Archives: Elliot Teichman

The Mets signed Jeurys Familia to a 3-year, 30 million dollar deal last night that just makes too much sense. There’s a lot of relievers still on the market looking for closer jobs, longer term deals etc. Familia likes the … Continue reading →

Baseball America’s report on Desmond Lindsay starts the same way every other report about Lindsay does – Desmond was the 2015 top draft pick for the Mets because the Mets jumped into the market early that off-season giving up their … Continue reading →

Happy first day of the Winter Meetings! While we anxiously wait for whatever BVW has up his sleeve in Vegas, let’s talk about a pitcher who’s season ended this year in Vegas. Due to the injuries and trades on the … Continue reading →

Earlier in this series I discussed how Corey Oswalt was misused by management in terms of being jerked around off his pitching schedule. We also talked about Tyler Bashlor being on the roster for a while but going through long … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert; Ronny Mauricio was named the #3 Prospect in the Mets farm system for 2019 last week (ahead of Kelenic and Dunn) so he must have had a good year. Let’s dive in. Baseball America notes that Mauricio was … Continue reading →

It’s now been a day after the Mets presser for Cano and Diaz where it became clear that the Mets were after Realmuto. Realmuto will cost the Mets one of Conforto/Nimmo/Rosario. Part of the issue is not the promise than … Continue reading →

This week is DRC+ week at Baseball Prospectus where they debuted a nifty new stat to figure out how good a hitter really is. If you haven’t checked it out, go do it! It’s a nifty way to check out … Continue reading →

It’s been about a week again since we’ve returned to this series and during that time the Mets have traded prospects in this guide book including #3 Justin Dunn (setting up for an awkward article in two weeks) and #25 … Continue reading →

Last week the Oakland Athletics and Portland both released renders of how their future ballparks. The difference being, Oakland has a team and make the ball park a reality (finally) and Portland doesn’t have a team yet. In an error … Continue reading →

The non-tender deadline has gotten more interesting the last couple of years as players on the tender/nontender bubble are not making significantly less than free agents, thus teams rather risk it than going to arbitration to save money. There are … Continue reading →