With just 17 days to go until opening day, the Mets coaching staff and front office are busy making their final judgments before finalizing the 25-man roster for opening day. For the first time in years, Port St. Lucie has…
Aside from ingratiating himself with Mets fans with a broken leg caused by Chase Utley‘s violent playoff clipping slide, Ruben Tejada has a real value to this team that should cement his roster spot, at least in the short term.…
The sight of Daniel Murphy in a Washington Nationals uniform just doesn’t make sense. The eyes see it but it somehow doesn’t register properly in the brain, like a hotdog with ketchup or a Prius with a spoiler. Yet there…
Sandy Koufax, widely considered among the most dominant pitchers in baseball history, had his career end at age 30 due to unbearable pain in his left elbow. It was thought to be incurable arthritis, but we now know it was…
This is a bigger question than you may realize. For a playoff contending team, the primary setup man is a key cog in the team’s success. Many close games are won and lost in the pivotal 8th inning. If Addison…
The 2016 National League is sharply divided between haves and have nots. Six teams, two in each division, are in rebuilding mode, stripped bare of quality veterans, save a few overpaid, untradeable ones. The other nine, three in each division,…
Mets fans old enough to remember the 1986 season will readily recall a talented and arrogant team that blew through the National League with 108 regular season wins on their way to the epic World Series win. Thirty years ago…
Highlights: Mets sign lefty Antonio Bastardo to solidify the back end of the pen. Spring Training will feature 12 pitchers competing for three roster spots. Sandy Alderson and Terry Collins will largely determine this relief corps’ success. Improving the bullpen…
While every Met fan counts down the days until the 2016 season starts, we each have our own great expectations of what our favorite players might accomplish. The rookies Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz will now have a…
A big part of the Mets’ success in 2015 was their 47-29 record within the National League East. It certainly helped to have two teams in clear rebuilding mode, a third suffering injuries to its two key players, and the…
A good bench is essential to any team’s success over a long season. Aside from providing pinch hitting and running, late-inning defensive replacements and needed days off, bench players are often thrust into every day duty following an injury to…
We were very good this year. We came out to Citi Field in increasing numbers and spent our hard-earned money on $10 cans of Budweiser and $6 hot dogs. We boosted TV ratings on SNY and purchased every playoff round’s…
