Extreme Mets Fans Love Extreme Stats
In a season of extreme sadness for Mets fans, and extreme futility for Mets players, there were other extremes, too.
Luis Arraez fanned just 21 times. But James Woods fanned 221 times. Maybe Woods’ extra 2 is a typo, and he only fanned 21 times, too.
“Fragile” Jake deGrom threw 4 more innings than the Mets’ top innings guy, David Peterson.
My brother Steve wanted the Mets to go all in on Gavin Crochet in 2024.
There were health concerns, yada yada, so many leaned towards caution.
So the Red Sox swooped in and got him instead. How’d he do?
He ended up 18-5, 2.59, with a MLB leading 254 Ks in a MLB second highest 205 innings.
Should have gotten him. Hindsight is so “2025.”
Cal Raleigh hit 60 HRs despite playing in a tough pitchers’ park in Seattle.
How tough? Just 104 of the team’s 238 HRs were hit at home.
Imagine if he played in Cincinnati. 65 HRs? More?
Lance Johnson hit 21 triples for the Mets in 1996. The Mets’ entire team hit 19 triples in 2025.
Mets starters totaled 796 innings, while league-leading Philly totaled 930.
In 1969, Mets starters totaled 1,107 innings, 311 more.
In 1986, 1,091 innings by starters.
The Mets had 17 pitchers start games in 2025. In 1969, it was 8 starters.
2025 Mets pitchers fanned 1,387 batters, while the Seaver/Koosman/Ryan Mets of 1969 fanned just 1,012, doing so in 36 more innings.
- I guess that means the 2025 Mets pitchers are just better, huh?
The Mets amazingly stole 147 of 165 times, including 39 in a row at one point. I’m not sure how many of those 18 caught stealings were pick offs.
Pittsburgh threw 19 shutouts. Colorado threw 3.
The 2025 Mets won 65% of their first 69 games, but just 41% of their last 93 games.
The prior season, the 2024 Mets won just 39% of their first 63 games, but 66% of their last 99 games.
In a word, a schizoid franchise, prone to huge “win swings.”
Extreme Mets fans - how are they?
Extremely forlorn. And extremely deflated.
Many, to cope, have been prescribed Metamucil.
MLB TOP 100, AND TEAM TOP 30’S, WAS JUST UPDATED
The Mets have 4 players in the venerable Top 100 of MLB rankings.
Even better…
Those 4 are in the Top 46.
Which is drastically better than having 4 in the bottom 46.
Nolan McLean is ranked #11, and first overall pitcher! No surprise there.
Carson Benge at #21.
Jett Williams at #30.
Jonah Tong at #46.
Congratulations, fellas.
DR. EVIL: “DON’T FIRE THE LASERS! FIRE THE FIELD GENERALS!”
I read this:
“Hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez and pitching coach Jeremy Hefner are among those who will not return, the team announced. The Mets are also parting ways with bench coach John Gibbons and third-base coach Mike Sarbaugh, while catching instructor Glenn Sherlock is retiring.”
Change was badly needed. Pitching unraveled, and I was a frequent critic of several hitters who were taking too many pitches, likely a “one size fits all” hitting approach to “work the pitcher”, when it was instead those weaker hitters that were being worked.
The team hitting was essentially solid only because the big four (Soto, Alonso, Lindor, and Nimmo) made it look decent overall.
After all, those 4 scored 401 times, drove in 409, and added 123 doubles, 137 HRs, and over 303 walks. The rest of the team drove in just 337 runs.
The Mets were 3rd worst in runs scored without RBIs, with just 20 (766 runs scored, 746 via RBIs) while Milwaukee led in that category with 56 (806 vs. 50). Does it matter? Well, Milwaukee won a lot more, so I’d say yes.
Someone in the Mets Analytics Dept. should assess what the Mets can do to close that gap.
IN CASE YOU BLINKED…
I just realized that the Dodgers swept the Reds in two games their Wild Card series. Would the Mets have done better, had they not caved to Cincy in the last 10 days of the irregular season?
ALMOST FORGOT…HAVE AN EXTREMELY HAPPY SATURDAY, PEOPLE.
12 comments:
Simply put, the Bums have the top rotation in the playoffs
I also agree coaching changes are needs... both to hitters waiting on balls but also pitchers needing to cut down amount of balls thrown in first five innings
BA has finally got their Mets prospect rankings straightened out
The Bums died in Brooklyn.
Oh
Sorry 😞
Correction
Dodgers
FanGraphs also put out their top 100. McLean was 12th, followed by Tong (33), then Sprout (51), Benge and Williams. These guys were in the top 70. No one after that.
These guys one area that Mets pitchers never improved in was throwing strikes… it was time to go for all these coaches. Eric Chavez was politely critical of the team having co-hitting coaches. He said a team should have one voice and one opinion, not two. I agree.
I would look to move a lefty pitcher with one year remaining that has a habit of walking many guys…. The Giants are looking for pitching.
I don’t disagree. Or…trade Manaea. Santucci and Wenninger will be ready before we know it. Go young, or go home.
If I told y’all that the Rangers want to cut costs, would y’all take back a 38 year old ace? Believe me, freight would have to be light. What I like about him is low walks and only two years left on his deal and he pitched 171 innings. He had low strikeouts, but I think he’s just smarter about his health. Maybe a three way deal, where Peterson goes to San Fran, they send Texas some prospect and Tidwell and DeGrom come to New York?
I agree with you, but I want to trade Peterson. Manaea was hurt and you’d have to eat money. I just do not understand why he isn’t having the surgery… and I’m tired of Peterson’s walk-a-thon every game. His luck will run out.
Good for me
Manaea’s waiting until mid-April to get the surgery
It does seem that way, Tom.
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