Recently I turned to my friends in the Mets blogosphere and asked them the following question: Was it better to spend $87.25 million for seven years of Chris Young, Curtis Granderson and Bartolo Colon or would you have rather have spent more to get in the Shin-Soo Choo/Jacoby Ellsbury bracket? These people all do great [...]
Curtis Granderson and Bartolo Colon were signed. Trade talks developed about Ike Davis and Daniel Murphy. All signs pointed to a willingness to “compete” in 2014. Now, with the Winter Meetings over and the march toward Spring Training continuing, it seems that figuring out the shortstop situation is next on the list. It seems that, [...]
It is no secret that Sandy Alderson has failed Mets fans as their General Manager to this point. Sure, he brought in prospects and lowered the payroll, but throughout the Alderson Era, the Mets are yet to finish a season with a .500+ record. When he took his place as Mets’ General Manager in 2010, [...]
To this point, Jon Niese, Zack Wheeler, Bartolo Colon, and Dillon Gee seem to round out the first four spots of the rotation- which seems to be pretty solid- but the fifth spot is seemingly up for grabs. In reality, Rafael Montero and Noah Syndergaard are not going to make the roster on Opening Day [...]
At the Winter Meetings in Florida last week, legendary sports reporter Peter Gammons spoke about the Mets signing Curtis Granderson. Like most people who were asked, he thought that the signing was a good turnaround for a club that’s refrained from spending any substantial money in the past three years, and hasn’t had a successful [...]
Wilmer Flores remains one of the Mets' top 10 prospects. He’s likely still, the team’s best hitting prospect in their entire minor leagues. He’s playing this winter in the Venezuelan Winter League where he’s amassed some really promising stats: AVG: .372 OBP: .451 SLG: .488 OPS: .939 In 43 ABs, he only has 4 Ks! [...]
One early spring night in 1976, Bill James, a night security guard at the Stokley-Van Camp pork and beans cannery in Lawrence, Kan., sat reading the copy of Street and Smith’s Baseball Yearbook. Beside him sat several other preseason baseball publications which he had bought – called annuals. “Reading through them I realized, ‘These are [...]
The signings of Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, and Bartolo Colon provide a clearer view into what will ultimately be the Mets 2014 squad. Barring an unlikely trade for a high-profile shortstop or outfielder, these are likely to be the biggest additions to the roster before next season. The outfield has markedly improved from what it [...]
It’s hard to call the Curtis Granderson addition a subtle upgrade. This will likely be the only big splash that Sandy Alderson makes this offseason. Alderson’s trend for this offseason -- and going forward -- seems to be making subtle upgrades in the outfield. This type of approach is bothering a lot of Mets fans [...]
At the end of the season, most fans had reached the conclusion that either Ike Davis or Lucas Duda needed to be elsewhere before the start of the 2014 campaign. Fans were not enamored with either player yet a consensus developed that Davis was the one who needed to go. Many fans expected a deal [...]
Name Age AVG OBP SLG OPS HR SB Stephen Drew 31 .264 .329 .435 .764 16 7 Yunel Escobar 31 .278 .350 .386 .737 11 5 Asdrubal Cabrera 28 .273 .335 .413 .748 14 12 Elvis Andrus 25 .274 .339 .348 .688 4 35 Brad Miller* 24 .265 .318 .418 .737 17 11 Didi Gregorius* [...]
It has only been three months since Bobby Parnell had neck surgery to repair a herniated disc, but there have already been rumblings about his status for next season. While the surgery went as planned, the rehab aspect has led some to believe that his readiness for spring training is still up in the air. [...]