Omar Minaya’s failure in international signings hurts club today

We’re all trying to make sense of how the Mets are in the position that they are today. Everyone has their theories and one that refuses to die is that the farm system has been bad in the past, bad in the present and bad in the future. Let’s take a look at the guys [...]

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Gut reaction: Pirates 6, Mets 4 – 6/25/18

In late April and early May we lost games because of some bad starting pitching. For a few weeks in May we lost games because of a leaky bullpen. Then in late May into June our bats went silent. In a rare game tonight where we scored enough runs to win and pitched well enough [...]

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Mets Minors: Ronny Mauricio makes a stateside splash

As many people will know, the Mets signed Ronny Mauricio to the largest international bonus in club history. This bonus surpassed the one paid for former Uber Prospect, Amed Rosario. The switch hitting shortstop is rail skinny and tall, at 6’3” 166 Lbs but he’s started his major league career, at the age of 17, [...]

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Dodgers give Mets a blueprint on how to bounce back

It’s hard to be a Mets fan right now. For the second year in a row we’ve entered the season with high hopes only to see poor play and injuries sabotage the season. Many of you have made a completely rational decision – stop watching. Where have you gone, Metsense? We so need your rational [...]

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Gut Reaction: Dodgers 8, Mets 3 (6/23/18)

With an 8-3 drubbing, the New York Mets fell for the second consecutive night to the Los Angeles Dodgers. For the first three innings of the game, it was a battle between the two of the biggest names in National League pitching. For the Mets, their ace Jacob deGrom took the hill and put out [...]

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Gut reaction: Dodgers 8, Mets 3 – 6/23/18

In what may seem like a recap of the previous game, the Mets kept the game close until surrendering a grand slam in the eighth inning that put the game far out of reach. And, once again, the Mets hitters stranded base runners throughout the night, failing to deliver clutch hits. Jacob deGrom was less [...]

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