On Terry Collins and Matt Harvey

Terry Collins is by far the best manager that the New York Mets have had in the past decade. Taking a struggling team and developing the clubhouse mindset into a team that expected to be in contention each season, Collins was only second manager to lead the Mets into back to back post-season appearances. The [...]

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Mets 2022 projections: Carlos Carrasco

This time last year, everyone was excited about the acquisition of Carlos Carrasco as part of the Francisco Lindor deal. The Mets desperately needed starting pitching and Carrasco had battled back from his cancer scare and looked just as good as ever. Unfortunately, Carrasco was injured during Spring Training and it seemingly took forever for [...]

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Wednesday catch-all thread (2/16/22)

Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. Over at SNY is the following headline: "Terry Collins says former Mets pitcher Matt Harvey talked about suicide." The article is linked - you can read it yourself. Sounds like a throwaway line, more than anything delivered with real intent. Regardless of [...]

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On keeping Robinson Cano for the DH or any other reason

Robinson Cano and J.D. Davis both joined the Mets for the 2019 season thanks to trades by short-term GM Brodie Van Wagenen. The Cano trade has been one that has been debated heatedly from when the rumors first started. The Davis deal was a much smaller transaction. Now, these two players find themselves connected again, [...]

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Mets Minors: Roster predictions and depth charts

I have a number of running spreadsheets for the Mets farm system that are all updated on a monthly basis with rankings and depth charts that are updated regularly. I use this document constantly, as I’m making my posts and while we are in the postseason we begin to see a healthy amount of speculation [...]

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It’s about time: the Mets bring back Old Timers’ Day

Ya see? Speaking up works, even if it did take seven years. The above article was written on the cusp of a season of Mets’ glory, had we but known at the time. It is the nature of the beast to rail at ownership when you’re a Mets fan, even at the start of something [...]

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Mets 2022 projections: Brandon Nimmo

Brandon Nimmo hit all season long but with two main issues. The first was the mysterious hand injury, which kept him out for two months. Then there was the power drain that occurred in the first two months after he returned. When he was activated from the IL on July 3 thru the end of [...]

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Mets COTW: 1988 Kevin Elster

Many times, I’ve wondered what percentage of “Rookie Stars” or “Future Stars” or whatever label Topps was using at the time turned out to be that way. Not many is my guess. They’re all stars on Draft Day and they’re all stars when they get their first baseball card. But reality is a cruel thing. [...]

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Wednesday catch-all thread (2/9/22)

Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. When I was a kid, I didn't much care for Old Timers Day. It was sad to watch on TV these once-great athletes waddling around on the field. Plus, that meant the real game started later. Now, I have mixed feelings about [...]

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The Hall of Fame case for another member of the Mets family

As we all know Gil Hodges, the skipper of the 1969 world champion Mets, was chosen for the Baseball Hall of Fame in December. Even though his plaque will undoubtedly show him with a Brooklyn Dodger cap, he was a vitally important member of the Mets family as well. Perhaps when the Golden Days committee [...]

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