Could we put together a division made up of the different Mets eras? Who would be victorious? What team would finish in last? How competitive would the different eras be? Let’s start with developing the 25-man roster for the Mets…
In 1958, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants made their debuts in California, leaving behind a gaping hole in the hearts and mind of baseball fans in New York City. This massive wound that was left in…
The 1962 Mets were one of the worst teams in the history of professional Baseball. They won 40 games and lost 120, while producing enough ineptitude to fill multiple volumes of literature over the years. The reasons for these foibles…
On March 12th, 2020, a thing happened that no one anticipated or had seen in our lifetimes. The major league baseball season was delayed for something that had nothing to do with the game itself. COVID-19, the strain of Coronavirus…
The Mets are a team we should feel good about. They have young, skilled position players, a very talented starting pitching staff and enough ability in the bullpen that it’s not out of the realm of possibility that those pitchers…
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…
