Well, the Winter Meetings: 2017 Edition are winding down. I trust a few people had some fun in the sun of Orlando and I am supremely confident that more than a few mojitos were guzzled by the grizzled. All that’s left is the Rule 5 draft, wherein a couple of teams will try to strike [...]
The Mets said they would sign a reliever and while many thought it would be Bryan Shaw it turned out to be Anthony Swarzak. While Shaw allegedly gets 3/$27, the Mets got Swarzak for 2/$14. Of course, Shaw has a longer track record of good pitching. Last year was the first year where Swarzak was [...]
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. is a wonderful place, which every fan should go to at least once in their life. The exhibits are great and you’d be hard pressed to find a more picturesque place than Cooperstown. Of course, we hear most about the Hall around the annual [...]
There are some baseball awards that no Mets player has ever won; the MVP award especially stands out. One award the team has done fairly well at is Comeback Player of the Year, five different Mets have won this honor. A player who wins a baseball Comeback Player of the Year award is one who [...]
Rumors are the lifeblood of the offseason and there's no better place for them than the Winter Meetings. There's been some buzz about Matt Harvey being on the block. At first we heard about him for an unspecified reliever. Now there's talk (supposedly not serious) about a swap of Harvey for Jurickson Profar, a middle [...]
Chemistry, intangibles, things that don’t show up in the box score. We’ve heard these and other phrases a million times throughout the years. Some people dismiss these out of hand while others assign mythic qualities to them. My beliefs align much closer to the former. However, anyone who’s been in any kind of work environment [...]
Picture an imposing, man bunkered down in a far away lair. As he sits, waiting for February to roll around, he tosses a baseball up and down to himself, a pathetic cure for his winter boredom. The man that I am talking about was once a hero in the city of New York, but now [...]
The dominoes are starting to fall. Doug Fister. Mike Minor. Tyler Chatwood. Dee Gordon. Any one of these guys could have helped the Mets, but that last one really stings. The Mets "expressed interest in Gordon," but clearly we got beaten to the punch here. When you have multiple holes to fill and reportedly only [...]
The 2017 Winter Meetings begin in one week and we have no clue as to what the Mets are planning to do. Of course, GM Sandy Alderson has laid out some broad outlines about the direction this offseason will take – mainly to appease the beat writers and columnists, slaves to the 24-hour news cycle [...]
MetsBlog recently ran this on potential trades: Perhaps the most interesting suggestion came from Gary Apple, who said the Mets should trade LHP Steven Matz, INF Wilmer Flores, and INF prospect Luis Guillorme to the Marlins for 2B Dee Gordon. Gordon is a good defensive second baseman and the Mets could surely use that. When [...]
In 2017, the production from the Mets outfield was similar to the production from the starting pitching in that the talent was there in both cases, but injuries played a big part in reduced production. The left fielder, Yoenis Cespedes, had an excellent slash line at .292/.352/.540, higher in all three categories than for his [...]
This past year the Mets promoted their #1 and #2 prospects, Amed Rosario and Dominic Smith, to the majors for the tail end of the 2017 season. While the audition was short, Mets fans and management didn’t take long to turn on their young first baseman. He was overweight, he wasn’t hitting for average and [...]