Founded in 1986, the club fields teams in baseball, softball, and even cricket championships. Twice champions of the Grand Est baseball league in 2013 and 2014, the first team reached Division Nationale 1 in 2015, then Division 2 in 2012. The flagship team joined the elite championship as early as the 2019 season.
Amidon, Joyce, Fleury (2021 season)
2022: the third participation of the « peloteros » from Moselle in D1. In 2021, over 26 games, the Cometz posted a record of 7 wins and 19 losses. In 2019, during the regular season, the Grand Est club had a .450 winning percentage (9-11), then strung together 12 straight wins in the playdowns! Their place in D1 firmly consolidated, they lived up to their merits with a season to match. A team with some standout individual talents, but not quite strong enough to challenge for the top spots in the standings.
Last season was respectable with a few standout moments: 3 wins out of 4 against the Arvernes and a stunning upset against the Templiers on August 15, 2021, 2-1… Two forfeits by the Rochellais and another win against Nice. Apart from abandoning the playdowns (three forfeits), the rest was conceded to their opponents with relatively little margin, despite a few heavy defeats against the Cougars (0-15), the Cavigals (3-14), the Templiers (0-10), and the Barracudas (2-12). The rosters may have played a part on both sides. With a total batting average of just .193, it was tough to hold their own against the « big clubs. » Only Joyce held his own at the plate with a .358 average.
On the pitching side, everyone remembers Fleury’s performances, the star hurler for the Mosellans, who dominated his opponents with a 3.27 ERA and 109 strikeouts! A total ERA of 4.69 across the 8 pitchers used, with 217 strikeouts, boding well for solid baseball.
Victorien Roze in La Rochelle, (2021 season)
So, what will the Cometz bring us in 2022?
The expected reinforcements of Raimel Rodriguez (SS), Patrick Jordan (P), Samuel Granoff (P), Marcus Melendez, Trevor Rogers, promise a show worthy of the French elite. No crystal ball (and that wouldn’t be any fun) can tell us anything about Metz’s future, but it’s more than likely they’ll kick up some dust again and maybe even shake up the standings. They should give opposing defenses and offenses some trouble, rattle a few too-quickly-established certainties… A new deal could be coming from the East.
Vincent Picard
