Michael Salfino writes for the Wall Street Journal as well as Yahoo! Sports. A couple of days ago he posted this on social media: Painful night for Familia, #Mets fans but is this team even any good? Salfino’s a good guy, and a Mets fan, too. This wasn’t a putdown. Instead, it was a legitimate [...]
J.B. These could be the initials that live forever in Mets’ infamy. For the last few years a Mets fan would associate the initials with Jason Bay, a free agent bust that played for the team in 2010 through 2012. This year’s trade deadline acquisition is also a J.B., Jay Bruce. We Met fans may [...]
Whew! The latest unlikely hero, rookie TJ Rivera, narrowly helped us avoid what was almost the most heart-breaking loss of this roller coaster season. Noah Syndergaard pitched as good a game as he's ever pitched with seven dominant innings of nasty, filthy stuff. He exited with a commanding 3-1 lead, having struck out 10 Nationals [...]
The 2016 minor league season is behind us and the Mets are now purely focused on the major league squad reaching the postseason. Let’s look back at some of the best Met storylines from the minors from this past season. 10. Brandon Nimmo masters AAA - Say what you will about the Las Vegas team [...]
The Mets said farewell to the House of Horrors known as Turner Field with a 10-3 victory Sunday afternoon. The Mets finished 67-106 lifetime in the soon to be vacated stadium. The Mets jumped on top early. Asdrubal Cabrera tripled with one out in the first and scored on an infield groundout by Yoenis Cespedes. [...]
A lot of Mets fans have never warmed up to Curtis Granderson. He got off to an incredibly bad start with the team in April of 2014 and seemingly fans have held that against him ever since. Or maybe it’s because he doesn’t hit for a shiny average and a lot of people still cling [...]
The Mets jumped out to the early lead but could not make it stand up, as they fell to the Braves in 10 innings, 4-3, Saturday night in Atlanta. Dansby Swanson led off the 10th with a single, went to second on a wild pitch and advanced to third on a single. It looked like [...]