Valverde, Familia should get first shot at set-up role

Opening Day is Monday and the Mets are still finalizing their roster as they prepare for a two game exhibition series in Montreal.  Jose Valverde has officially made the team after being placed on the 40 man roster.  In nine games this spring, “Papa Grande” has pitched ten innings ,yielding ten hits and only one [...]

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Let’s all give Daisuke Matsuzaka a shot

While many of us Mets fans were clamoring for Jenrry Mejia to be the Mets fifth starter, it just doesn’t seem it’s going to happen. For whatever reason the Mets have, they are going to ether send Mejia to the bullpen (although Sandy Alderson is refuting that notion) or the minors where he can get [...]

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Ike Davis and Lucas Duda on the roster is a disaster

Sandy Alderson put out the word over the last few days that Ike Davis and Lucas Duda would both make the Opening Day roster. In an offseason that could be argued as a success, this situation is a massive failure and it’s somewhat amazing that the front office can’t see that. The situation isn’t a [...]

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The Mets Will Have A Very Good Bench in 2014

“Basically, the Mets have a strong bench. Unfortunately, it’s starting.” – Sports Illustrated, June 2, 1980. Such was the narrative when the Mets surprised everybody that year by flirting with .500 in mid-June. That gritty, gutty bunch warranted a feature in the leading national sporting publication of the time, on the verge of having a [...]

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The Mets’ 2013 effective payroll and how it relates to 2014

Two years ago, I wrote a piece about the Mets' 2011-12 offseason. If you've mentally blocked that offseason, it's the one that saw an historic nominal payroll reduction, with something in the neighborhood of $50M net coming off the books. The goal of that piece was to put that immense payroll decrease into perspective by [...]

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Mets Card of the Week: Mystery Met Episode 6

Card of the Week's Mystery Met maven has been recovering from trivia Tommy John, and after a winter of long tossing on the back fields, he's ready to take the mound again. So here's the pitch: identify this Met with the sad and soulful spring-training eyes, and you'll win a 2014 Topps Matt Harvey yellow [...]

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Don’t worry Mets fans, first base will be fine

Spring Training is the one time of year when it is socially acceptable to root against the Mets, for certain players to have an edge on jobs. At this point in the young season, most of the main questions have been answered- some not to the liking of the fans. The shortstop situation has resolved [...]

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What Can Met Fans Take Away From Spring Training?

It doesn’t mean anything. Never believe what you see in March or September. You could write the results on a matchbook. You’ve never heard of any of these guys. It’s all just for fun, just to work on certain things, just to get into shape, just to show management what you might be capable of. [...]

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Should the Mets pay the price for Starlin Castro?

Not everyone is a Starlin Castro fan. He’s a polarizing player who’s had some character issues in the past, but he is also a four-year veteran on a team that is going very young, very quickly. The quick-batted sensation Javier Baez will be up with the Chicago Cubs soon enough. While Baez has been playing [...]

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What can Zack Wheeler do to be an ace?

Matt Harvey’s incredible leap forward last season have left Mets fans with perhaps an unrealistic bar with which to judge other pitching prospects by, namely Zack Wheeler, Noah Syndergaard and Rafael Montero. This, of course is not to say that this young trio of right-handed flamethrowers can’t develop into dominant starters in the near future. [...]

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