"Forget about being the New York Mets and playing baseball," Wright said. "I think that just being American and living in this country, we owe it to those guys to say thank you and tell them how much we appreciate what they put on the line every day -- and a lot of times what [...]
"I don’t like the fact that he’s cruising right along and he just walks two guys, Kev. It just seems like… It’s one start so I don’t want to beat up on him but Mike’s at the point in his career now and we still don’t know what he is. "What is he? He’s had [...]
As a fantasy player I love updates that indicate that players are into fantasy, too. Here's a tweet that mentions Mets players and fantasy football. "Pelf mocking Thole's fantasy draft. 'If you really wanted Eli that bad, you could have picked him up today on the waiver wire.'" Source: Adam Rubin on Twitter If you [...]
"Jeff Francoeur was one of the most pleasant men to walk into a baseball clubhouse in my 15 years covering the sport, and I’m happy for him that he gets to take part in a pennant race. I just wish he would’ve taken a pitch or two while he was here. And, you know, hit [...]
"Compared to last year, he's come a long, long way," said Mike Nickeas, the Mets catcher who caught Mejia in Double-A and Triple-A and was called up on Thursday to start as his batterymate Saturday. "I think his off-speed stuff for strikes has been tremendous this year, and his last four or five outings have [...]
"He was so impressive to me in batting practice that I want to see what he looks like," Manuel said. "Every ball that he hit, he hit on the barrel. It was a different sound than anybody that we had. It's a different life coming off that wood than I had heard in a long [...]
"Manuel is 190–198 in 2.5 seasons managing the Mets, who have looked totally disinterested during the last two months of this season. He was mostly a .500 manager with the White Sox too, short of one fantastic season. In his heart and mind, I truly believe Manuel expected this team to evolve and grow from [...]
"This possibility assumes Francoeur creates any kind of standard against which to measure other players. Since his impressive April, Francoeur has a .605 OPS. Rey Ordonez had 3 seasons as a Met in which he hit better than that. Lucas Duda, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Chris Carter, Jason Pridie, Val Pascucci, and a few choice corpses were [...]
"I thought the velocity was a little better," manager Jerry Manuel said after the Mets' 9-3 loss. "Surprisingly, the command was better for a guy that hasn't pitched in 28 days. I'll be anxious to see how he feels [Tuesday]. Under those conditions, I thought he did well. Manuel on the 28-pitch outing of Perez [...]
"Outside of the traffic, I feel like it's a great place for me," he said after yesterday's gem. "And that's the honest answer. I enjoy the culture. I enjoy the people. The fans, they're tough fans, but they just like to win. And I get that. As a Tennessee Titan fan, I feel the same [...]
Editor's Note: The chart listed below is not the same as the one on the original site because I could not get it to copy over. All of the numbers are the same - the layout is different. "Below is a comparison between Santana’s season and CC Sabathia‘s season, who earned his 18th win of [...]
"As an aside, sacrifice flies don't count as a turn at bat and therefore don't negatively affect a hitter's batting average, but they're almost always just regular fly outs with the singular and fortunate (from the batter's perspective) distinction that a runner happened to be on third base (or second!) at the time. Occasionally a [...]