Yes, it certainly feels like we are watching the New York Mets play baseball again. The team that started off 5-1 is now straggling along at 11-8, fighting to keep tight with their competitors in the NL East. Many at this point in the season are quick to smash the ever-alluring panic button, in hopes [...]
In The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R Tolkien wrote that “All that is gold does not glitter.” Certainly, there is a lot of gold to be chased in the MLB these days. The gold that everyone is chasing from the second they begin the season is to raise the gold-plated Commissioner’s Trophy as World Series [...]
The New York Mets have had a myriad of issues over the past two seasons that were addressed when Brodie Van Wagenen grabbed the helm of the organization during the offseason. There has been a noticeable culture change with the Mets, something that is exciting to see after two straight seasons of futility, all the [...]
One of the most important jobs for a collegiate basketball coach is creating the out of conference schedule for their team. It can set a precedent for what is to be a highly competitive season, or it can completely backfire and set a team back heading into their conference schedule. Things are a little different [...]
If this offseason doesn’t make you want to raise your children to be baseball players, I don’t know what will. There has been a significant amount of money handed out this season, and the most surprising part is that most of it has come from contract extensions, not just the big ticket free agents like [...]
There are many things that one could point to as what could make or break the New York Mets in 2019. The first, and always the first thing on everyone’s mind is health. It seems like a rare occasion now when the Mets can escape a season without becoming derailed due to injury. With that [...]
There is an old adage that reads, “If you can’t beat them, join them.” For the New York Mets, they could coin a different phrase. “If you can’t beat him, sign him.” For years, Wilson Ramos has continuously hammered the Mets. In his 303 career plate appearances against them, Wilson is slugging a .302 average [...]
First Data Field has been the home of the Mets for spring training for quite some time now. The Mets splurged following their World Series victory, and spent an astonishing $11 million on the complex. That is about $23.3 million in today’s dollar, for those keeping track at home. This is only an astonishing figure [...]
The story had almost every element imaginable that you could want to it. He is from New York City. In high school, the field he played on had no pitcher’s mound. He went undrafted out of Troy University, and signed with the New York Mets. T.J. Rivera was electric when he rose up to the [...]
Baseball free agency is a slow moving, ugly dance. Arbitration hearings show the ugliest side, although they are advertised as a civilized meeting to get to a contract agreement. In reality, they prove often to be “justified” character attacks on players by teams who often don’t want to budge on their contract offers. This moves [...]
The New York Mets have seemed to do all but rule out going for a splash one of the extremely highly-priced free agent this offseason. You already have heard their names too many times this offseason, so I won’t mention them for the sake of your sanity. What I will mention however is that the [...]
For some, having a misconnection with millennials can cause a rift in communications. For Chili Davis, it costed him his job as hitting coach of the Chicago Cubs. The hitting coach has now been fired in consecutive seasons, first with the Boston Red Sox after the 2017 season, and then after the past season with [...]