☀️ Good Morning:
It’s a new year, so let’s embrace it with the silly task of resolutions.
I will start with my own for the newsletter, before identifying some for the Mets.
☕️ Grab your coffee for your morning dose of Mets Fix!
I suppose we could call this newsletter, Mets Fix, presented by Steve Cohen.
This newsletter was born in the immediate months following the sale of the Mets to Mr. Cohen. It obviously marked an historic turning point for the organization, and also happened to be consummated in the depths of the pandemic, allowing for some extra time to begin a new venture.
This will be our fifth full season covering the Mets on a daily basis. I know some of you dear readers have followed me from Day One, since I transitioned from Knicks Film School to Mets Fix.
The original idea was to create a newsletter we wish existed as fans. I was fortunate to meet my partners Blake Zeff and Peter Kauffmann in the early days. They had a similar idea as mine. Together, we have built what we have today, while becoming great friends, which is honestly the greatest reward of this adventure.
Each year, we always look to improve the product. Here are a few resolutions:
◾️ Be better about the mailbag. I try my best to answer questions sent directly in email or in the comments. Occasionally, we produce a mailbag issue. But I hope to be better in responding to reader questions in the new year.
◾️ Identify more topics that aren’t driven by newsbreakers. When writing a daily newsletter, inevitably each day’s theme is dictated by the latest news. However, I want to do a better job focusing on topics that are unique to this newsletter, not always allowing the latest rumor to consume the conversation.
◾️ More audio. We launched the Mets Fix Podcast with the help of our indispensable producer Andrew Claudio. We have since transitioned the feed to Substack to make it easier for you to listen to us from the app, or whichever podcast catcher you prefer. We hope to have a lot more audio in 2025.
◾️ Keep it going. Thanks to many of you who emailed this past week to say you enjoy the newsletter exactly as it is. Over five years, I think we have found a nice mix of prose, analysis and commentary, aided by visualizations and audio. Whether it’s following a diet or a workout routine, sometimes the hardest thing to do is to keep performing at a high level. My biggest promise for the new year is that we will never deviate from the quality you expect from this newsletter.
🍎 Mets Resolutions
We know what we want to do with the newsletter, let’s move on to the baseball team. What are some early resolutions that make sense for the Mets?
1️⃣ Develop a young starter
What happened to the youth?
The Mets have seven starters looking to crack the rotation in April, five of whom are over the age of 30, none younger than 29.
It’s trending towards the fifth straight season in which the Mets could finish in the top two for the number of thirty-something starters in a season.
This is what happens when your farm system stops producing starting pitchers.
The Amazins haven’t received more than 10 starts from a pitcher under the age of 26 since 2021 (David Peterson, Tylor Megill).
Herein lies the importance of Brandon Sproat, the fastest rising arm in New York’s system. If all goes right, he should make his major-league debut this summer after a little more seasoning in Syracuse, where he struggled in 2024.
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