With Grapefruit Season over and the regular season yet to begin, it’s time to check in with my annual predictions column. These are not safe picks and if history is a guide, a majority won’t come true. Last year was a pretty good year as I got seven out of 15 right and a couple [...]
Poking around the Met-verse and reading articles this offseason, you may not have noticed the Mets largest offseason acquisition. Here at Mets360 we last saw Curtis Granderson focused on in early January. Is this fair? No. It’s the difference between how the media focuses on the Mets and other teams in baseball. Do writers focus [...]
I found an old Baseball News article written between the 1970 and 1971 seasons. The premise of the article, “The Mets Under A Microscope” is that Tom Seaver’s diminished level of performance following his superlative 1969 season was a major factor in leading to a third place finish by the New York Mets. In 1969, [...]
Those of us rooting for Jenrry Mejia to be the Mets’ fifth starter this year were dealt a blow Friday night when he had to leave his start early after getting hit in the forearm. It’s another in a long list of injuries that have kept the former top prospect from settling in at the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Don’t worry Mets fans, the Mets will be making additions to their roster. And these moves will be soon. By mid-May, it seems very likely that a young pitcher will be gone and a new shortstop will be arriving. Now this trade could have been done two months ago or Stephen Drew could have been [...]
The Mets have been around for 52 years, and will be playing their 53rd season this summer. Throughout their history, the Mets have had some big name players, from Tom Seaver in their early years, to David Wright who is currently the face of the franchise. Many of these big names have remained a part [...]
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 [...]