The 2016 Baseball Winter Meetings concluded on Thursday. While a number of teams were in the mix for or making splashy trades and free agent signings the New York Mets mostly looked for a place to offload the $13 million contract of Jay Bruce. Depressing isn’t it? Yes, bringing back Yoenis Cespedes is fantastic but [...]
Are we all ready for the winter meetings? Given the general lack of talent in the free agent group it has been speculated that there may be more than the typical number of trades. We know that Sandy Alderson is looking to trade Jay Bruce and/or Curtis Granderson. The GM’s first goal is to fortify [...]
On Thursday my esteemed Mets360 colleague Charlie Hangley made a convincing case to Sandy Alderson that in trading a lefty hitting veteran outfielder it should be Jay Bruce, not Curtis Granderson, who gets moved. It is undeniable that Curtis Granderson is a fine baseball player and an even more exemplary human being. He epitomizes what [...]
Three hours and eleven minutes. That’s how long the postseason lasted for the 2016 New York Mets. That’s the amount of time it took Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants to whitewash the Mets in the Wild Card game on October 5th. Since the 2015 edition of the team made it to the World [...]
Early this week it was announced that Neil Walker joined a select group of free agents who have eschewed free agency (for this year) in lieu of accepting the one year Qualifying Offer of $17.2 million. He will play once again with the Mets on this one year deal and will have the opportunity to [...]
A few weeks ago my good friend Ted who lives in Maryland paid my wife and me a visit. Ted and I finally did something we had been talking about doing for years and that is visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. While it was my fourth visit to the Mecca of the [...]
Utility baseball players, more formally known as multiposition players, have been in baseball for over a century. The immortal Flying Dutchman, Honus Wagner, one of the greatest players ever, played in the National League for 20 years starting in 1897. While he played nearly 1900 games at shortstop and is usually remembered for his work [...]
It is no surprise at all that Yoenis Cespedes has decided to opt out of his three year deal with the Mets after year one. After all, the whole idea of that option was to allow him to jump back into the free agent pool were he to have a big impressive 2016 season. And [...]
You would think that a team that has reached the postseason two years running would be stable enough so that in mid-October its fans would know who will be playing the majority of the positions in the next season. And, of course, when it comes to the 2017 edition of the New York Mets that [...]
It can’t be denied that the most consistent offensive weapon for the 2016 New York Mets was Yoenis Cespedes. The player batted .280, banged out 31 home runs, and put up an OPS of 884 which is impressive anywhere but doubly so in the pitcher friendly environment of Citi Field. Bloggers, newspersons, and callers to [...]
It would not be hard to find players in the Mets locker room to whom you could point and say, “without (fill in the blank) the Mets would not be in the Wild Card Playoff game.” You surely could say that about Yoenis Cespedes, Noah Syndergaard, Curtis Granderson, Addison Reed, and Jeurys Familia. Let’s throw [...]
Our older readers may fondly remember the TV game show “Password”. It was very popular during the 1960s and 70s. For those who do not know how it is played basically a contestant and a celebrity (often Betty White) team up with one giving the other one word clues until the partner says the given [...]