With teams having hundreds of assets (mostly players) and dynamic varying needs it is pretty challenging to say this team should trade this player, or these players, to that team for such and such a player. Yet still we who write about baseball persist in thinking up trades and reasons for why they could work [...]
The defense is awful, the bullpen is leaky, injured, and overworked, but when people pound the Mets these days it’s because of hitting – or I should say lack of hitting. Tell the truth, the game reaches the fourth inning and the Mets have no runs and no hits, are you surprised? I’m guessing you [...]
A most polarizing figure in the Mets’ blogosphere is 23-year-old Wilmer Flores. If you are a Mets fan you undoubtedly have an opinion about him and it’s likely a strong one. The dividing line between the Flores factions is the question of whether his bat is potent enough to make up for a questionable (to [...]
This article originally started out as one entitled “Can the Mets’ dyfunctionality be fixed?”. It was going to first describe the dysfunction starting with underfinanced ownership that won’t or can’t put enough money towards payroll to field what should be a big market team. From there it would discuss a General Manager who knowingly has [...]
Recently the New York Rangers were dispatched from the NHL playoffs in game 7 of their third round playoff series. In that league you need to win four best-of-seven series in order to win the Stanley Cup. The Rangers were a team carrying high expectations since they had been to the championship series last year [...]
In a shocking act unprecedented in professional sports the New York Mets, having upset the favored Washington Nationals in an exciting seven game NL championship series have opted to not participate in the 2015 World Series. In a press conference held at Citi Field Mets general manager Sandy Alderson, flanked by team owners Fred Wilpon, [...]
Notice the title and that it’s not “In defense of Daniel Murphy’s defense”. One would be hardpressed to write a column carrying that title. I suppose I am fonder of Murphy than most of you are and certainly more than the Twitter uses who light that place up any time Murph pulls a Murph on [...]
As someone who has read more than two dozen books on the Kennedy Assassination it could be said that I am somewhat disposed to seeing conspiracies even where they don’t exist. One of the other sports teams I follow is the New York Jets (yes, I can really pick them). For those not familiar with [...]
Ben Zobrist is and has been an outstanding baseball player. He is injured right now but when he gets back onto the field he will go back to playing almost every day at all sorts of positions. He has been described as a superutility player which to me means that he is a regular but [...]
The articles one reads on baseball blogs mostly concern themselves with the team at the moment. Sometimes they discuss the past game, an injured player, or they look back at team history. Here we will turn the clocks forward and imagine an article you might see right here at Mets 360 on Monday October 2nd, [...]
A serious Mets fan can easily read 20 or more articles about the team and its individual players in a typical week. There are over a dozen blogs to choose from. The New York papers usually have one or two Mets pieces each per day. There's ESPN and other online sources. And if you're really [...]
It's often been said that it's a good kind of problem to have when as a baseball team you have a surplus of high end talent at one position. I tend to agree with that statement in most cases because usually there are workable ways to trade your surplus to fill an area of need [...]