Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with most of the moves that Sandy Alderson and Co. have made this off-season. Not spending a ton of money (which the team didn't even have) on a player like Jose Reyes was a hard decision, but it was the right move. Personally, I loved the Angel Pagan for [...]
So it seems that a lot of people doubt the Mets this season. However, their pitching staff is pretty much the same with the addition of (when he was healthy) one of the best pitchers in baseball. So with that, I say the pitching staff has improved. They lost a very solid closer in Francisco [...]
Well it’s suddenly February and that big football game is only a few days away. And you know what my favorite part of the Super Bowl is? No, the thought of seeing Tom Brady miserable, or seeing what kind of weird/creepy/funny commercial ETrade has in store for us. No, it’s more of the fact that [...]
After spending a week down in South Beach, (and making Matt Cerrone very jealous), I now understand why Jose Reyes took his talents down there. In any event, it got me thinking about All-Time great Mets and how they’ve only retired one player’s number. Now, I know the Mets don’t have the history of teams [...]
Last week ESPN's David Schoenfield released his breakdown of the NL East for the 2012 season position by position. He ranked each teams position players, starting rotation, closers, bullpen, and the intangibles. In the end he tallied it all up and the Mets finished in last with 29 points. They were 19 points behind the [...]
This year Barry Larkin was the lone inductee to the baseball Hall of Fame receiving 86.4% of the votes, in this his third year on the ballot. He played all 19 years of his MLB career for the Cincinnati Reds, where he was a 12-time All-Star and a three-time Gold Glove winner. Larkin played the [...]
Robert Allen Dickey certainly isn’t a normal baseball player. First off, he’s a knuckleballer so that automatically makes him weird. Second, he loves Star Wars. Like, he really likes Star Wars. So when Dickey announced that he wanted to bike up Mount Kilimanjaro I thought, “yeah, that’s about right”. When the Mets front office heard [...]
There’s no question that when Johan Santana pitches, he is one of the best in baseball. The problem is that “when” part of the statement. Santana joined the Mets in 2008, and every year he has dealt with injury problems. After the 2008 season we learned that Santana had a torn meniscus, and had thrown [...]
At this point in the offseason, it looks like the Mets roster is mostly filled out. They do have two more holes they need to fill though; sixth starting pitcher and a utility infielder for the bench. They are not huge glaring holes, but that are positions that are important to fill if the Mets [...]
I’ve never been the guy to rant and rave about the Wilpons and how they should sell the team and that they are killing the Mets. I don’t even mind right now that they let Jose Reyes walk and that they are re-building, even though the front office won’t admit to it. But there is [...]
OK, so the Mets lost Jose Reyes, blah, blah, blah, he was one of my favorite players, blah, blah, blah, whatever. It’s over now, it’s time to accept it and move on. Unfortunately, a lot of Mets fans out there can’t accept it, and don’t understand what just happened. It’s mainly because a lot of [...]
Yesterday the Boston Red Sox announced that Bobby Valentine will be their new manager. He's been out of professional baseball since 2009 and hasn't managed in the MLB since 2002 with the Mets. In all he has 15 years of managing experience in the MLB and seven years in Japan. Valentine began his managing career [...]