Well, it took a little while, but the offseason looks to be officially on its way due to the upstart activity running rapid amongst numerous ball clubs. Per numerous reports, the Mets are spending the majority of their attention on signing OF Curtis Granderson. While free agency has served to be accessible for teams looking [...]
Movement! We Met fans are seeing some movement for really the first time since the last out against the Brewers on September 29. No, Chris Young doesn’t count. It looks like some of the “money-coming-off-the-books” we’ve heard so much about will at long last be freed up. Word is swirling that the Mets are this [...]
News came down today that the Brewers traded potential Mets-target Norichika Aoki to the Royals for Will Smith, who apparently gave up a career in the movies in order to be a solid lefty reliever in Kansas City last year. This move prompted reader Jerry Grote to make a detailed post about how the Mets [...]
The Mets need to make a splash. They need to do something to both upgrade the team and excite the fan base. Tampa Bay doesn’t need to but will still most likely want to move their ace David Price before he becomes too expensive for them. This is how the Rays operated in the past [...]
Earlier this offseason, New York Mets GM, Sandy Alderson, expressed that he would put a contending team on the field for the 2014 season. However, he is yet to do that. So, it is time to keep true to his promise, and conduct the “Shock Heard ‘Round the World”, with help from Los Angeles Dodgers [...]
Monday started off great; Jordany Valdespin was non-tendered and it later came out that Sandy Alderson had met with Curtis Granderson. Then it took a dark turn as Justin Turner and Jeremy Hefner were non-tendered by the Mets. Turner has had his ups and down while playing in New York, but the Mets fans deserve [...]
Now that the deadline to tender contracts to players has passed, we should expect to see teams more active in signing free agents, especially with the Winter Meetings right around the corner. Before too much more time goes by, it seemed like a good time to check in on the top free agents and offer [...]
2013 was a bad year for the Mets – but a great year for Juan Lagares. He saw his prospect status become reborn with a strong showing in AAA, and following a promotion to the MLB, captured the hearts of Met fans with amazin’ defensive highlights. The Mets enter 2014 without Matt Harvey and with [...]
Ahead of tonight's deadline, the New York Mets have announced that they have non-tendered two players: Scott Atchison and Omar Quintanilla. Atchison appeared in 51 games for the Mets in 2013, pitching to the tune of a 4.37 ERA and a 5.39 RA/9 in 45.1 innings pitched, compiling a 3-3 record out of the bullpen. [...]
Recently, John Zakour wrote an article entitled, “Mets could do worse than Bronson Arroyo.” In my mind, the worst thing the Mets could do would be to sign a starting pitcher to a multi-year deal, which by all reports is what it would take to land Arroyo. By my count, the Mets have a baker’s [...]
Other than the outfield and shortstop positions, the bullpen is the Achilles heel of the Mets. This is probably going to be the hardest thing for GM Sandy Alderson to fix this offseason because the trend with relievers is that they tend to be unreliable year to year. Usually they outperform their peripherals -- allowing [...]
This offseason hasn't gone as well as Mets fans would have liked so far, to say the least. It's obviously early, and the real action generally kicks off at the winter meetings, so it's not quite time to panic. The real source of fan frustration doesn't seem to lie in what the team has or [...]