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Mets Bullpen Swinging Strike %
(click to embiggen) Swinging strike % (SwStr%) is the percentage of pitches thrown that result in a swing and miss. It's a quick way to tell how good a pitcher's "stuff" is and correlates stron...
An Early Look At J.J.
The Mets rotation is 10th in the league in FIP (4.29), which is even more awful when you realize that Johan Santana is the only reason it's not 16th. But today I'm trying to be positi...
Developing The Mets' Bullpen Picture
Many stones were cast at last year's bullpen for the Mets' failure to reach the postseason, especially as the Phillies rode a terrific group of relievers all the way to a World Series title. Omar Mina...
Mets Monthly Bullpen Performance
Some of this will change by the end of the season, but I just wanted to take a quick look at how the Mets' bullpen has performed, in general terms, for each month of the season so far. Not that anyone...
Wednesday Applesauce
Jerry Manuel is still considering using one of his starters -- likely John Maine, Oliver Perez or Mike Pelfrey -- as a reliever if his bullpen continues to shoot blanks. Seems a lot like robbing Tango...
It's Not Worth Losing If You Can't Lose Big
I promised myself I wouldn't write another column belaboring the fact that the Mets' bullpen has completely fallen apart. I'll try to keep things brief, because I don't want to reiterate what we alrea...
Fix The Mets' Bullpen FanPost Swag Contest
Since the Mets' bullpen is in shambles and we haven't had a random swag contest in a while, and since participation in the FanPosts here isn't what it could be given the generally intelligent discours...
Blow It Up: Pirates 7, Mets 5
Heilman, Show, Smith, Feliciano, oh my! I haven't seen anything like this, possibly ever. For 80% of the bullpen to implode on a daily basis, for a team that is actually pretty talented and a coll...
Double Plus Ungood
Fact: the Mets bullpen has fallen apart over the past week or so, hemorrhaging runs like a wound that just won't clot, regardless of how much dirt you rub in it or makeshift bandages you fashion out o...
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