If you go way way back in Mets history you know that the earliest off seasons featured the team’s front office just trying to add some major league caliber players to the roster. But if you fast forward to the modern era of bullpen usage you know that one off season task the Mets continually [...]
Major league baseball general managers have some things in common with high profile politicians. They both have a public profile used while facing the press or, in the case of politicians, in debates. But they also have to answer to the “money interests.” The politicians have the big donors to court while the GM’s are [...]
Depending on what stage of grief you may be in at this point you might be ready to look back at some of the excellent things that went on with the Mets during the 2015 regular and post seasons. Remembering back one full year ago we were hoping that the front office might be able [...]
Interesting stuff happened on Thursday. It was revealed that the Mets checked in on Andrelton Simmons, were told it would take Harvey or deGrom, and promptly checked back out. Simmons was ultimately dealt to the Angels. Meanwhile there seems to be a chance that the Mets would not even tender a contract to shortstop Ruben [...]
Let’s pretend that you are a baseball fan but for some reason (new baby, ridiculous job demands, or being on a space mission to Mars) you were not able to follow this season or post-season. Now you are ready to be caught up and have been told that the recently played World Series featured two [...]
Since the Qualifying Offer system was developed not a single player has opted to accept the one year deal and stay with his team. Rather every player offered it has left, usually for a multiyear deal elsewhere. This has usually, but not always, worked in the player’s long term favor. One notable exception was when [...]
Pretty much all fans of professional football dislike the fact that most years there is a built-in two week wait separating the NFC and AFC championship games and the Super Bowl. There have been a few years when the wait was only one week and it seems that these years have had more entertaining and [...]
My father was born in 1919 and grew up in the Bronx. In a neighborhood filled almost exclusively with Yankees’ fans he became a New York Giants fan. In introducing me to baseball in the mid 1950’s and specifically to Giants’ history he often cited the accomplishment of Carl Hubbell who in the 1934 All-Star [...]
Well look at us fellow Mets fans. While most major league players have packed up and headed home our team is still in the tournament with a chance to go the World Series. Let’s look at what we’ve learned so far. Murphy is money in more than ways than one No one is a bigger [...]
This is being written before the first pitch has been thrown by Clayton Kershaw on Friday night. Were the Mets to win that game then the home field advantage swings back to them in a big way. By the time you read this the Mets could be up 1-0 in games or in a big [...]
On July 24th the National League standings looked like this: As you can see, the Mets were just one game over .500 trailing the Nationals by three games and they were not in a very good position to make a run at a Wild Card berth since the Pirates, Cubs, and Giants had a good [...]
Major League Baseball rules allow its teams an opportunity that no other league or sport does. As of September 1st each year a team's active roster can be expanded from the 25 player limit that has been effect since the season began to as many as 40. All teams take advantage of this opportunity and [...]