In 2012, the Mets called up 23-year old Matt Harvey, who seemed to take the league my storm. Likewise, in 2013, 23-year old Zack Wheeler was called up to the big leagues and performed fairly well. These two call-ups gave fans faith that this team had strong starting pitching coming up through the pipelines. Even [...]
If you polled most fans about how they felt about the 2015 Mets bullpen, most would be fairly optimistic. The team has a good corps of relievers coming back and a lot of the dead weight from 2014 is either already gone or won’t make the team out of Spring Training. But is this optimism [...]
Grant Bisbee of SB Nation took a look earlier this week at three of the forgotten names in the free agent market: Asdrubal Cabrera, Stephen Drew and Colby Rasmus. While Rasmus, a lefty-hitting outfielder with good pop and not much else, doesn’t really serve as a fit on the 2015 Mets, Cabrera and Drew, both [...]
Like many, MetsBlog is a regular stop for me. Matt Cerrone has been very good to us here at Mets360. He was a guest on our podcast – back when we did them – and while MetsBlog doesn’t link to as many sites as it once did, we still get a few links, for which [...]
This Christmas morning millions of children will jump out of bed and run to open their presents. Some presents will exceed their expectations while others will be tossed to the side with half-hearted 'thank you' attached. We all remember those presents; a pack of socks or underwear or, even worse, a fruitcake. What if we, [...]
Six weeks ago, the “Which Mets Season Was the Best” bracket began, and John Olerud’s 1998 season came out victorious over Jose Reyes’ 2011 season. The very next week, Dwight Gooden’s 1985 season beat out Jesse Orosco’s 1983 season. Last week, Gooden beat out Tom Seaver’s 1969 season by 21 votes. That being said, it [...]
As we get closer to completing the Mets360 Top 50 Prospect list, some more familiar names are starting to show up. Some players in the Top 10 might appear in a Mets uniform sometime this year or next if all works out. Others still have some work to do. As do we, so let’s get [...]
The Mets are on the verge of contention, and with the mix of veterans and youth on the 40-man roster there could be some playoff baseball in Queens 2015. However, we are not here to discuss 2015-but the future of Queens. Criticism aside, Sandy Alderson has formed an extremely balanced farm system by acquiring players [...]
1971 TOPPS JOE NAMATH This is an old tale and even a happy one. Set the way back machine to Christmas 1971. I shared a room with my brother Gary. We got up early for Christmas, as every good American child has done for ages. Meanwhile, my parents stayed up to all hours of the [...]
As of right now it looks like Sandy Alderson is going to hold onto Daniel Murphy until at least the trading deadline. Murphy would likely not be in a deal for major league ready players, but more likely minor league pitchers. A good comparison would be the Mets pitchers Michael Fulmer and Gabriel Ynoa and [...]
Here's some news and notes you may have missed this weekend. Dwight Gooden wrote an introspective letter to himself for Derek Jeter's website, The Player's Tribune. It's a nice short read and the advice he gives to his younger self is something that is probably good for all of us to be reminded of from [...]
In a recent article written by Kevin Kernan of the New York Post, he quotes Terry Collins as saying “I don’t think that there is any question that we should be playing October next year”, which echoes that comments Matt Harvey has made. The team has high expectations of competing, and the manager believes that [...]