Mets Offseason 2014: Marlon Byrd and LaTroy Hawkins Are Gone. Is This A Sign?

If you can get away with something cheaper [than $1,000,000.00] as the Mets did for the innings they squeezed out of [LaTroy] Hawkins and the hits they derived from Marlon Byrd ($700K), fan-freaking-tastic. There are budgets and strategies and dozens of contracts to take into consideration. Don’t throw money away if you don’t have to. [...]

Why Mets were right to let LaTroy Hawkins leave

Last year when the Mets signed veterans Marlon Byrd and LaTroy Hawkins, the collective reaction from the fanbase was a giant yawn. Then those two players went out and had nice seasons. Now fans are upset because the Mets let both Byrd and Hawkins sign elsewhere, seemingly without even making a financial offer to bring [...]

The challenge of replacing 10+ WAR of Byrd and Harvey

Since the beginning of the build up to the 2014 offseason, it was pretty much assumed that Mets GM Sandy Alderson would make some moves. There has also been a lot of discussion of how Alderson is going to go about making these moves. Some say that it’s a good idea to make a huge [...]

Real and imagined bad ideas from the Mets this offseason

Since gravity is doing its job, perhaps negativity can pull me through. With that thought in mind, here’s a list of things I don’t like here in the offseason for the Mets. After three seasons of not spending more than 2/$12 on any free agent acquisition, people are drunk with expectations on who the Mets [...]

Met Fans Are Soooooo Over Jeff Wilpon

The MLB General Managers’ Meetings are starting to wrap up down in Orlando, and – color me shocked! – the Mets haven’t done anything visible. I know…I know…It’s the GM Meetings, not the Winter Meetings: there’s very little in terms of actual player movement that gets done in this go-‘round, the meat of which goes [...]

David Wright, anonymity and “Who’s On First”

“Who’s On First” is one of the classic American comedy sketches. Performed by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, “Who’s on First” is a short skit in which Costello approaches Abbott about Abbott’s baseball team. Abbott proceeds to talk to Costello about the team, not informing Costello that the names of the players on the team [...]