Mets upcoming opponent primer: San Diego Padres

Citi Field vs San Diego Padres Monday 4/1 1:10 (Opening Day) Edinson Volquez (Third consecutive OD start) vs. Jonathan Niese Wednesday 4/3 7:10 Clayton Richard vs. Matt Harvey Thursday 4/4 1:10 Eric Stults vs. Dillon Gee Projected Starters: 1B #23 R/R Yonder Alonso 2B #9 R/R Jedd Gyorko (Top Padres prospect, making big league debut) [...]

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The all-time “only played for the Mets” team

Taken from a recent post on a well regarded Mets message board, here is an interesting take on an All-Time Mets Team. The All-Time Only Played For The Mets Team. To make this team, there is going to be a couple of ground rules: A player must have played parts of five years as a [...]

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Comparing the 40th and 50th anniversary Mets teams

Last year the Mets had a nice big celebration for the 50th anniversary of the franchise.  This included not one, but two All-Time Team “lists” being generated.  The first being the 50 Greatest Mets in Team History, and the second was an All-Time Team, selected from various candidates by a panel of Met experts (writers, [...]

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A breakdown of the Mets’ 2013 promotions

It’s that time of the year!  Time to see what the Mets PR and marketing staff have come up with to entice you to step right up and greet the Mets.  Of course a team that won much more than they lost WOULD help, but such as it is, here is what promotions and special [...]

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Mets Minutia: Movement on all-time pitching lists

This will conclude the look at 2012’s contribution to the minutia of Met history with movements on various All-Time pitching lists Leafing through the 2012 Media Guides, sees Johan Santana being 3rd in all-time ERA (minimum 500 IP) as the only active Met on the leaderboards listed (well, with the exception of Bobby Parnell being [...]

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Mets Minutia: Movement on the all-time record list

Going back to the minutia of the 2012 season for a look at changes on various major offensive All Time Met records list. First, the biggest one that happened in 2012 was David Wright’s ascension as the Met All Time Hit King.  Wright surpassed Ed Kranepool’s previous record of 1,418 and is currently sitting at [...]

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Mets should honor guys from the lost decade in their HOF

The Mets Hall of Fame is filled with Mets from the 1969, and 1986 era squads, and with John Franco’s induction this past year, they are getting around to the 2000 NL Champions. There is though, an era woefully unrepresented, and while the exploits of the era fall well beneath the dominance of the mid [...]

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Mike Piazza, retired numbers and the Mets Hall of Fame

Retired numbers and putting people into whatever Hall of Fame, Walk of Fame, Monument Park or whatever a team honors it’s past performers can be a bit of an interesting topic. In several situations numbers are not retired until the player in question has taken his rightful place in Cooperstown, for example, with the exception [...]

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Factoids about the 2012 Mets

Well, as the calendar year turns, let’s take a look at some interesting, or banal depending on your mileage on such tidbits, factoids about the 2012 New York Mets  First up, a look at the Met All-Time Roster, and Met Leaders by games played at each position; The Mets used 49 different players in 2012, [...]

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A day later: Reflecting on the R.A. Dickey trade

Build a new foundation now, or keep up with “Proven Crap?”  That does seem to be the eternal debate when it comes to Met fandom in midst of horrendous down years.  It was heard during the down fall of the Worst Team That Money Can Buy run, it was heard after the spending spree of [...]

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A history of uniform patches for the Mets

This coming season the Mets will have their uniforms adorned with the 2013 All Star Game Patch.  So, channeling the inner UniWatch, let’s take a look at the history of Met uniform patches, whether special one-offs, memorials, or standard through the years. The standard Met uniform patch, a patch version of the official Met logo, [...]

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