Everyone wants to see the Mets make moves in the offseason, preferably big moves that add high-price talent to the roster. But there are a couple of problems with this mindset. First, the payroll counting estimated arbitration salaries is already…
The Mets won 86 games last season, a solid total and one that leaves the fans optimistic for even better things in 2020. You have to go back 43 years to find the last – and only other – time…
This time last year the buzz was all about the reported trade between the Mets and Mariners, one that wouldn’t be official until December 3. If you just woke up from a year-long coma, the Mets sent Gerson Bautista, Jay…
A few days ago, the site featured a poll asking readers, in a dream scenario, to pick one thing to happen for the 2020 Mets. The choices were to trade for Mookie Betts, get a full season from Yoenis Cespedes,…
One of the most challenging things for baseball GMS and wannabe GMs is to determine when a sample size is big enough. Justin Turner was nothing special in his years with the Mets and they cut him loose in a…
The Mets seemingly have a new pitching coach in old friend Jeremy Hefner, who pitched parts of two seasons with the club in 2012-2013 before having his career derailed by elbow injuries. We’re so used to pitchers having TJ surgery,…
We’re in the offseason, where people believe the Mets have an unlimited budget and other teams want to bend over backwards to trade us their best player. It’s George Costanza saying he’s figured out a way to get Barry Bonds…
The list of homegrown hitting stars for the Mets is pretty thin. It starts off solid enough with David Wright, Darryl Strawberry and Jose Reyes. But if falls off sharply from there. Sure, it has fan favorites like Cleon Jones…
Sam Miller of ESPN had a great column idea. The premise is that a “fan” of all 30 teams came up with a wish for their franchise and the genie with the power to grant that wish asked for something…
In the beginning of November, the Mets declined their $9.5 million option on Juan Lagares, making him a free agent and likely ending his career with the club. If you type “Lagares” into the search box at our site –…
With Juan Lagares gone, it’s possible that Brandon Nimmo is now the most polarizing player on the team. He’s below-average defensively in center field, he strikes out too often and his batting average is nothing to write home about in…
Prior to the 2019 season, MLB updated its rules to crack down on sign stealing. Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci wrote, “About six teams last year were commonly understood to have installed in-house cameras in centerfield that were trained on opposing…
