Here’s a bold prediction. Edwin Diaz will be better next year. The peripheral stats support that. An expectation that he won’t be better is just pessimistic. He was literally the worst closer in baseball last year. He could just be…
Yes, this appears to be a mildly ridiculous question, but there is some veracity to it being considered. Winning multiple Cy Young Awards is not a Hall of Fame prerequisite. Neither is winning back to back Cy Young Awards. However,…
The Mets won 86 games in 2019 and were in the playoff hunt for the second wild card spot until nearly the end. The team gave the fan base exciting baseball for the first time since 2016 and actually have…
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of…
On December 17th, 2012, the Mets traded R.A. Dickey, the reigning Cy Young award winner, to the Toronto Blue Jays for a package of players head lined by Travis d’Arnaud. Up to that point, d’Arnaud was known for two things:…
This is the conclusion to a series of posts postulating what could have been for the Mets, dating back to the 1962 expansion draft. Some of the players mentioned in these posts played for the Mets, some didn’t. In the…
Note: This is a series of articles creating an alternate history for the Mets. They started with a reinvention of the 1962 expansion draft and have progressed from there. In actual history, some of these players were Mets, some never…
In 1973, our Mets reached the pinnacle of baseball for the second time in five years. The legendary Willie Mays was able to end his career as a World Series champion instead of how the real 1973 ended, with Mays…
After a terrific regular season in 1972 and a nail biting rush to the division title with the Pirates, the Mets had fallen short of returning to the World Series, again falling to the Big Red Machine from Cincinnati, as…
After winning back to back division titles, our Mets went into the 1971 season with high hopes. Unfortunately, despite a solid 90 or so wins, the Mets were outplayed by the Pittsburgh Pirates en route to a World Series Championship.…
By the end of the National League Championship series in 1970, it was the clear that the Mets were here to stay. Back to back NLCS appearances and a young roster full of talent made the Mets, former laughing stocks,…
The Mets were champions. All of the building that had occurred from 1962 on, with the team finally breaking through as a competitive unit in 1968, had resulted in a title in 1969. Soon after the World Series ended, Tom…
