If you consider all the injuries they have had and the fact that they have won 27 of their last 40 games to be in this position is quite remarkable. If they lose tomorrow night I still think they had a successful year. Bumgarner is a very good pitcher with excellent post season numbers. I am expecting this to be hard fought game for both teams. Hopefully the Mets will win.
Overall I think the Yankees had a much better season then many of the so called experts originally thought at the start of the year. They have what appears in this early junction to have some pretty good ballplayers and as a fan I think you should all be excited for the future. Objectively, I do believe the Mets are a better team at this point. As far as their starting pitchers are concerned, with exception of Syndergaard and the two rookies Gsellman and Lugo, everyone has had Tommy John surgery. The only pitches I am actually concerned about is Wheeler and Matz.
Last year both DeGrom and Harvey if you factor in the post season had pitched more than 200 innings. If the Mets manages to do well in this post season Syndergaard will have also pitched more than 200 innings. Last year DeGrom had 30 starts and Harvey 29. They had pitched 191 and 189 innings. Interestingly, in the National League there was only 6 pitchers with 200+ innings pitched only 4 above 208 and the American League had 10 pitchers with only 5 above 210. Pitchers are coddled today. Most teams place strict limitation on pitch counts not exceeding 100. How often do you hear about pitchers pitching a complete game? A lot of teams have 7, 8 and 9 inning specialists. Lets face it the 20 game winners and the 250+innings which was common place up to the start of the century. This year we had 7 pitchers in all of baseball with 18 or more wins; only 3 with 20+ wins. Only 5 pitchers had more than 225 innings. The game has changed!!!
I think wild card teams have had some level of success in the post season. The Giants in 2014 were a wild card team and they won the World Series.
I agree with you LISteve, pitchers are frail especially those that throw over 95+ mph which happen to be all of the young Mets pitchers. It does seem that those that throw hard are vulnerable to arm problems. The Mets can have a dominating team centered around their pitching IF they can keep everyone healthy. Syndergaard is the youngest and we got a taste of how great things could be last year when we ONLY had 3 of them pitching. Add in Matz, Wheeler, Lugo and Gsellman and it is hard not to be excited about the future. They have a lot of questions concerning there position players for next year but conceivably we can have a pretty good offensive team also.
Overall I think the Yankees had a much better season then many of the so called experts originally thought at the start of the year. They have what appears in this early junction to have some pretty good ballplayers and as a fan I think you should all be excited for the future. Objectively, I do believe the Mets are a better team at this point. As far as their starting pitchers are concerned, with exception of Syndergaard and the two rookies Gsellman and Lugo, everyone has had Tommy John surgery. The only pitches I am actually concerned about is Wheeler and Matz.
Last year both DeGrom and Harvey if you factor in the post season had pitched more than 200 innings. If the Mets manages to do well in this post season Syndergaard will have also pitched more than 200 innings. Last year DeGrom had 30 starts and Harvey 29. They had pitched 191 and 189 innings. Interestingly, in the National League there was only 6 pitchers with 200+ innings pitched only 4 above 208 and the American League had 10 pitchers with only 5 above 210. Pitchers are coddled today. Most teams place strict limitation on pitch counts not exceeding 100. How often do you hear about pitchers pitching a complete game? A lot of teams have 7, 8 and 9 inning specialists. Lets face it the 20 game winners and the 250+innings which was common place up to the start of the century. This year we had 7 pitchers in all of baseball with 18 or more wins; only 3 with 20+ wins. Only 5 pitchers had more than 225 innings. The game has changed!!!
I think wild card teams have had some level of success in the post season. The Giants in 2014 were a wild card team and they won the World Series.
I agree with you LISteve, pitchers are frail especially those that throw over 95+ mph which happen to be all of the young Mets pitchers. It does seem that those that throw hard are vulnerable to arm problems. The Mets can have a dominating team centered around their pitching IF they can keep everyone healthy. Syndergaard is the youngest and we got a taste of how great things could be last year when we ONLY had 3 of them pitching. Add in Matz, Wheeler, Lugo and Gsellman and it is hard not to be excited about the future. They have a lot of questions concerning there position players for next year but conceivably we can have a pretty good offensive team also.
