Just two months ago I sat in the living room of an off-campus house I rented with a few of my friends watching the Mets lose (well maybe not, but probably). My friend Mark turned to me and said, “You know who the Mets should sign? Bobby Abreu.” “They actually did a few days ago,” [...]
Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson, manager Terry Collins, and pitchers Jon Niese, Jacob deGrom, and Matt Harvey held a Q&A session with season ticket holders yesterday at Citi Field. Unsurprisingly, there was really nothing of substance to take away from it. Even Alderson's staunchest supporters (including yours truly) can no longer defend the way he [...]
The Mets have received LHP Blake Taylor from the Pittsburgh Pirates as the player to be named later in the April Ike Davis trade. Taylor was the second-round pick of the Pirates in the 2013 MLB Draft, and was ranked as a top 40 draft prospect by ESPN's Keith Law leading up to the draft. [...]
Prior to the 2012 Draft, MLB instituted a new policy in how it handled the signing of amateur players selected in the June affair. With these new rules in place, it was hard to determine what the best strategy to employ was going to be. My preference would be to go above the slot recommendation [...]
I picked up a 1971 copy of this book written by George Sullivan and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons at auction a couple of weeks ago. The book is geared towards young adults and is part of a series of biographies written on America’s baseball heroes. Some other athletes in the series are Willie [...]
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. This time honored saying, paraphrasing a quote from Emerson, speaks to the power of innovation. Be new, different and better and the world will love you. As Mets fans, we would be thrilled if the team achieved even two of those [...]
Summer is approaching, and in Brooklyn that means baseball is imminent. Tonight, the Brooklyn Cyclones open up their season in Staten Island with Amed Rosario expected to start at shortstop. The 18 year old Dominican is in his second professional season and is currently the Mets’ fifth highest prospect according to MLB.com. The major leagues [...]
As of Friday morning, June 13th, the Mets are 29 and 37. The trade deadline is approaching and the Mets have two paths they can take. Over the past several years, they’ve chosen the path, at the deadline or in the offseason, of trading away veterans for prospects (with the exception of spending free agent [...]