With Wednesday's trade with the Brewers, the Mets' 40-man roster stands at 38 players. Most expect the club to add a starting pitcher and an outfielder. There are certainly other areas the Mets could address, too, including designated hitter and the bullpen. Today we'll focus on the pen. Edwin Diaz returns to nail down the [...]
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2023 TOPPS NOW RONNY MAURICIO Is it possible for something to be both devastating and not-all-that important at the same time? That’s the question to ponder with the news that Ronny Mauricio is likely done for the year after an ACL injury. This Topps Now card shows why it might be devastating, as it highlights [...]
Are you playing Immaculate Grid over at Baseball-Reference? If not, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. Just go to the B-R home page and there’s a link to the game in the upper left. It’s a daily game, complete with a link to their archives. Thursday’s game is the 256th, so [...]
Recently, a story came across my Facebook timeline that said when he was an active player and made a road trip to Boston, Dennis Rodman would buy out a Toys-R-Us and deliver it to Children’s Hospital. Rodman, who certainly had multiple issues, did this without any fanfare. This is my preferred way for millionaires and [...]
The Mets have yet to sign a high-profile free agent, although few doubt that they will. Currently, the biggest name they’ve brought in is Luis Severino. Unfortunately, it’s not 2018, which was Severino’s last big year. Which makes signing the former Yankee a dumpster-dive move. The question is: How likely is a dumpster-dive move to [...]
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News broke that the Mets were going to hire David Stearns on September 12 and his hiring became official on October 2. Stearns did not “officially” fire Buck Showalter because he was still under contract to the Brewers and allegedly had no contact or influence on what happened with the Mets from 9/12 to the [...]
1970 TOPPS BUD HARRELSON I humbly submit this Bud Harrelson offering for consideration as the greatest in-stadium card Topps produced before they started doing live-action cards the following year. Typically cards of this era and earlier showed head shots or mock baseball poses. But here we have Harrelson signing autographs, in a familiar setting, assuming [...]
Congratulations to the Yankees on making the trade for Juan Soto. After years of relative belt-tightening under Hal Steinbrenner, this feels like a move his dad would make. At one point, my hope was that the Mets would step up and acquire Soto but it became obvious that wasn’t going to be in the cards. [...]
After stepping up in quality of opposition the previous four games, the Wolfpack returned to the early-season tomato cans and defeated Maryland-Eastern Shore, 93-61, Wednesday night at the annual Heritage Game at Reynolds Coliseum. It was quite a day for State sports, as the football team got a verbal commitment from a four-star linebacker, the [...]
Unlike the rest of the Winter Meetings, the Mets actually were active in the Rule 5 Draft. They selected a pitcher from the Rangers only to turn around and send him to the Red Sox. In return, the Mets received LHP Ryan Ammons, a 2023 draft pick from Clemson, who has yet to pitch professionally. [...]