The Mets used to own the Braves. From 1975 to 1980, New York was 44-28 (.611) against Atlanta. And from 1984 to 1990, the Mets were even better, going 57-27 (.679) against the team they beat in the very first NLCS. But brother, things ain’t what they used to be. They say a generation is [...]
This week the Baseball Writers Association of America members will receive their official Hall of Fame ballot, which will be turned in before December 31st, and the results will be officially announced on January 9th. While the official ballot has yet to surface, speculation, including the Hall’s own website listing future candidates for the next [...]
During Thanksgiving I got an early Christmas present when my sister gave me this autographed ball of Orel Hershiser. My sister works in the financial industry and she met Hershiser at a conference. Turns out he is involved with a company whose main line of business is providing – of all things – bridge loans [...]
The mega deal that is effectively ending any hopes of a budding Marlin dynasty last week can cause a Met fan to look back at Met related fire sales that are around the same magnitude. The first one that comes readily to mind is June 15th 1977, the Midnight Massacre. While the Mets were not [...]
On November 14th, it will be announced whether R.A. Dickey will be the Mets 5th recipient of the NL Cy Young Award or not. Either way, it is certain that he will be the 27th, and 16th individual Met to receive NL Cy Young consideration by the Baseball Writers Association of America’s voters. So let’s [...]
My Facebook friend Mike Emeigh had an interesting post over at BTF the other day where he asked: Wind back the calendar to 1975. If you could have told MLB then one thing about the game, what would it be? It provided some interesting answers so I thought we should examine the same question from [...]
How many of the 11 players who have been enshrined in Cooperstown who have also played for the Mets can you name? Most of these players made their marks for other teams yet many of them had big moments for the Mets, too. Here is the list: Roberto Alomar – It was thought to be [...]
The combination of a lackluster free agent class and a lack of available cash have the Mets allegedly focusing on trades to address their needs this offseason. So now seems like a good time to look at the trade record of GM Sandy Alderson. Let’s start off looking at his moves for the Mets and [...]
Editor's note: This story was originally written on the morning of Sunday, September 28th, 2008. As Yogi Berra would say – it was deja vu all over again. On the penultimate day of the season, the Mets get their best pitching performance of the season to keep their playoff hopes alive with a win over [...]
As I write this, the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants are enjoying a well-deserved day off in the midst of their National League Championship Series, to give it its full, “Avenue Of The Americas” title. Hostilities stand at one-all and this entire postseason tournament – taking into account all ten teams involved – [...]
Baseball-Reference lists the starters by position for each team, each year. Jason Bay started the most games in LF for the 2012 Mets, so he is considered the team’s starter this season, despite the fact he made just 54 starts in left this year. Seven different players made starts in LF for the Mets this [...]
We know about the infamous Cubs Quotient that seemingly accurately predicts that the postseason participant with the most ex-Chicago Cubs on the roster will not go on to win the World Series, reflecting on the now 104-year championship drought that the franchise has had. Well, can this be applied to New York Mets? Probably not, [...]