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Robinson Cano continues to be pitched away with great regularity.Robinson Cano is 2-for-15 to start the season, mirroring the struggles he had in the 2012 postseason. Cano did get one hit in four turns in Friday's loss, but also notable was how he...

Two out of three wasn't bad for the Mets' first series of the season. We return with our post-series recaps with this first offering of notes and numbers. Team Stat of the Series: They can hit! The Mets matched their best offensive output for the...

Opening Day produced a lot of statistics, some more meaningful than others. Let's go through the ones we found particularly noteworthy. 1. Jonathon Niese had his cutter working On a day where Niese didn't have his best curveball (it yielded three...

Yesterday we presented a best-case scenario for the Yankees, one that would net them 95 wins should everything break as we said it would. But what's the worst-case scenario for this group? The one where almost everything falls apart. Let's use ...

Getty ImagesThe Mets are looking for defensive improvement from Ruben Tejada and Ike Davis.Mets third base and infield coach Tim Teufel is a willing partaker when it comes to studying advanced defensive stats in conjunction with video analysis and sp...

We've been fiddling with team WAR totals since a researcher named Glenn DuPaul (a student at Lehigh) did a study that showed that adding the sum of a team's Wins Above Replacement (per Baseball-Reference) added to 52, gives you a reasonable chance of...

Doug Jones/USA Today SportsMaybe it won't be so bad for Collin Cowgill, Jordany Valdespin and company. The 2012 Mets outfield has a chance to be the worst among major league teams since ... last season? Reports of this Mets outfield rating among...

Getty Images/AP PhotoIn 2010 (left) Ike Davis starred versus lefties. He's trying to return to that in 2013 (right).What's the next step for Ike Davis as a major-league hitter? Despite his 32 home runs, Davis hit a meager .227 with a .308 on-base ...

AP Photo/Jeffrey PhelpsMets fans can get used to seeing this look from Shaun Marcum in 2013.Notes, nuggets and numbers on new Mets acquisition, Shaun Marcum. He's no Chris Young ... well actually, he is Marcum is much different in stature from th...

Mike Mussina's numbers rank among the best of his era.The other day I generated a list on Baseball-Reference.com of the top pitchers in wins above replacement in my lifetime (since 1975). The first four names on the list made perfect sense: Roger...

Shining a quick spotlight on three of the key players in Wednesday night's wins. Tony Parker, Spurs One of the keys to success for the San Antonio Spurs in their win over the Boston Celtics was Tony Parker's ability to get to the basket. The Sp...

The NL Cy Young race is intriguing, as the three finalists are very different in pitching style, but very similar in statistical accomplishments. The case could be made for any of the three. The winner will be announced on Wednesday night. Let'...

Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper showed no signs of wearing down from the rigors of a major-league schedule. If anything, he showed that he's made the adjustments necessary to be a star at this time of the season. So heading into the postseason,...

Getty Images/Al BelloJonathon Niese made nice improvements in 2012. Jonathon Niese completed his finest major-league season by allowing one run in seven innings in Friday's win. Niese closed with a 2.57 ERA over 66 2/3 innings in his last 10 star...

Niese-ly done Jonathon Niese matched his career high in wins (11) and surpassed his career high in innings pitched in a season in Friday's win. Niese has now pitched at least six innings in 18 straight starts. That's the fourth-longest streak by ...

Matt Kemp is in a slump and the Dodgers have struggled right along with him.The struggles continue for Los Angeles Dodgers centerfielder Matt Kemp, to the point where the St. Louis Cardinals willingly walked Andre Ethier to load the bases for Kemp in...