Should the Mets go “Back to the Future” with Jenrry Mejia’s role?

Last week Mets fans saw something scary: Jenrry Mejia made his first spring-training appearance. The outing was less than ideal. In only one inning of work, Mejia gave up five runs total -- four of them coming from a grand slam by Casey Kotchman. Mejia’s performance has come as a bit of a shock. The [...]

Daniel Murphy’s law and the Wilmer Flores conundrum

Imagine if you will a player, with extremely good hitting ability, a body that should support growing power and enough discipline to hack it in the majors.  All that has been holding him back is an inability to actually play a given position.  Yet now… he seems to have found a position where he can [...]

Carlos Beltran: Why do fans still hate him?

The New York Mets took a chance nearly two years ago when they traded an established outfielder and clubhouse leader in Carlos Beltran. Beltran, who still ranks in the top ten in several offensive categories in Mets history, has recently stated that their gamble paid off. At the time, the experts proclaimed that the immediate [...]

Collin Cowgill making the most of his opportunity

“I gotta have more Cowgill!” Ok, now that that’s out of my system, I promise no more references to the famous SNL skit “I gotta have more cowbell!” with the great Will Ferrell  and Christopher Walken. Regardless, after the way Collin Cowgill has started his spring, the joke does have some merit. We really do [...]

Analysis of the Mets announcers: Gary, Keith and Ron

Over the course of Spring Training, we will be doing a series of articles where we analyze the Mets announcers (both current and former).  Today we bring you the first article in the series: Gary, Keith and Ron. There are two categories of baseball broadcasters: Vin Scully and everyone else. In recent years, one television [...]

Mets Minutia: Movement on all-time pitching lists

This will conclude the look at 2012’s contribution to the minutia of Met history with movements on various All-Time pitching lists Leafing through the 2012 Media Guides, sees Johan Santana being 3rd in all-time ERA (minimum 500 IP) as the only active Met on the leaderboards listed (well, with the exception of Bobby Parnell being [...]

Thoughts on trading Justin Turner

This past week, rumors bounced around about the idea of trading utility-man Justin Turner. It was reported that the Mets would not necessarily shop around Turner, but that they would listen to any offers that came along. On the one hand, trading Turner would make sense for a multitude of reasons, however Turner does offer [...]