The average fan has a warped view of Scott Boras. They see him as arrogant, even by Sith Lord standards, and somehow think if he wasn’t around that ticket prices would go back to 1970 levels. It doesn’t help that…
One can make the argument that Wilson Ramos was the Mets’ third choice as catcher. There was a couple of tons of virtual ink spilled on the pursuit of J.T. Realmuto and there was also the 4/$60 contract offer to…
In the past three years, the expectation of most fans was that Yoenis Cespedes would be the team’s best hitter. But with Cespedes likely to miss at least half of the year, who will be the team’s best position player…
There was a New York Post article where former GM Sandy Alderson was quoted as saying that he wished he had re-signed Daniel Murphy. It’s an easy thing to say in hindsight. Murphy was great in 2016 and 2017 before…
If you asked anyone who watched baseball in 2018 – fan, player, executive – who the best pitcher on the Mets was last year, the unanimous answer would be Jacob deGrom. And this is how it should be. In his…
They say it’s a thin line between love and hate. But is that line any thinner than the one between a multi-year deal and an NRI for a lefty reliever? Channeling my inner Rod Serling, pleased to present for your…
What a difference a year makes. This time last year, significantly more people thought that Brandon Nimmo was a bust than those who thought he was a major league regular. And then not only did he remove the bust label…
Brodie Van Wagenen said that his goal this offseason was to eliminate the “ifs.” Some have wondered if while he was doing this, he should have addressed the rotation and brought in a starter to bump last year’s number five…
Wilmer Flores lands on his feet (ha!) after being non-tendered by the Mets, as he inks a deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The contract is one year with a club option for 2020 that guarantees Flores $4.25 million. He gets…
Mets fans did not appreciate enough what a fine season Noah Syndergaard had in 2018. While all of the attention was rightly focused on the tremendous year put up by Jacob deGrom, Syndergaard put up a season right in the…
There’s safety in doing things the way every other team does things. Sometimes this is smart percentage baseball at work and other times it’s done for no other reason than to avoid second guessing. How many times did we hear,…
In a move that virtually no one saw coming, the Mets added to their infield arsenal by signing free agent Jed Lowrie to a 2/$20 million deal. An All-Star for the A’s in 2018, Lowrie delivered 23 HR and 99…
