Back to the baseball grind!
Has
Kristaps Porzingis bum knee bummed thee? Never fear, baseball is here! Did the
crappy seasons from the Giants or Jets leave you filled with regrets? Tallyho,
onto the baseball season we go! Do the Islanders, Devils and Rangers sound like
groups of weird strangers? Ignore sports with nets, it’s time for THE METS!
Although
many players had arrived early again this year, Mets pitchers and catchers are
due to report at Spring Training today,
meaning Spring Training 2018 is officially underway!! This should be welcome
news for NY sports fans, because we finally have some teams worth following
again for the next 8 months.
What
that means around these parts is that I’m back and while most Mets outlets will
be covering events around Spring Training camp, I’ll be reviewing all the Mets
minor’s action I covered in 2017 (well, as much as I can before the minor
league season starts on April 5th). If you don't want to wait for my posts, you can find a list of all the
Mets minor’s GIF recaps I’ve done the past 3 seasons here, including the 291 I
did in 2017: 56 of Las Vegas, 116 of Binghamton, 4 of St. Lucie, 95 + All-Star
coverage of Columbia, and 20 of Brooklyn.
To
start, I will be reviewing the seasons at a team-by-team level over the next
week, and then I will take a more in-depth look at prospects within the system,
specifically those that got a lot of playing time on MiLB.tv last season. I
didn’t have enough time to do this during Spring Training last year, but the
posts will generally look like those found on this page
from two seasons ago – aka, there will be split breakdowns, personal reaction,
and links to ALL GIF’s from last year (and, in a few cases, 2016). I had
started this stuff back when the minor league season ended, but I needed a
break from the grind at the end of the season, and my break turned into another
winter of hibernation (and Rocket League, there was a lot of Rocket League at
the beginning, and I may have to get a ‘new’ gen system for that game).
In
other news, I hope you all have had a good, healthy, productive offseason! The
Mets were somewhat active this
offseason, but time will tell if it was a good and productive one. As last
season ended, I thought this would be the toughest offseason this Mets front
office has had to deal with, because it wasn’t clear the best path to improve
the club.
One
move I thought would help this club was the addition of Todd Frazier, and the
Mets ended up getting him on a pretty good-looking deal, but I didn’t think
that would be their only major roster move. Sure, Jay Bruce is back and cost
more, but he doesn’t really feel like an addition at this point. The only two
other new additions are Anthony Swarzak and Adrian Gonzalez, and I don’t really
like the A-Gon signing. I get that he’s a low risk sign who the Mets are hoping
will come in and turn the clock back a few years, plus he can give Dominic
Smith some pointers in Spring Training, but why do it? Why not just give the
job to Smith? If Dom fails, the Mets have other options that could fill in more
capably at first, and I’d rather see Wilmer Flores get the chance than Adrian
Gonzalez. Per wRC+, Wilmer – who is 9 years younger than A-Gon – has been a
better hitter in each of the past two seasons, plus he’s out-homered A-Gon
34-to-21, and done so in 188 fewer plate appearances.
Aaaanywho,
if this pitching staff is finally healthy in 2018 (the big IF), the Mets should be a lot of
fun to watch again. For now, let’s just enjoy the start of Spring Training and the
positive vibes around our favorite club while it lasts. Baseball is back, baby!
The @ATLASexperiment at @CERN has precisely measured the mass of the W boson—one of the most difficult measurements in particle physics. https://t.co/CyHND5bW8y pic.twitter.com/BTwgC82qmp— Brookhaven Lab (@BrookhavenLab) February 12, 2018
Welcome back, Astro!
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