As we continue our nominations for the least valuable player of the 2014 New York Mets, it may be safe to assume that we could just stop the search right here. One would be hard pressed to find a worse candidate (or for our purposes, a better one) than Chris Young. His season began with [...]
With the 2014 season winding down and a few players still making headlines without the team making the playoffs, it's a good time to reflect on the overall performance of this team. More importantly, how individual players affected the team as a whole, specifically, in a bad way. My next few articles will address these [...]
The New York Mets have been trying to fill a gaping void at their shortstop position ever since the departure of Jose Reyes. While Ruben Tejada was once thought to be the second coming, he's proven to be more like Rey Ordonez at the plate than Jose Reyes. The team thought their prayers had been [...]
The New York Mets have played their way out of contention. This isn't news. The only things that we, as fans, have to hold onto are the memories of great moments this season and personal accolades that players have left to strive to obtain. Four examples of these are Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Daniel Murphy [...]
The year was 2007. The New York Mets were in dire trouble of losing their grip on first place in the division and not even rebounding to make the playoffs as a wild card. The team enters the final game of the season against the last place, then, Florida Marlins.They turn to their ace, Tom [...]
This summer is drawing to a close very quickly. In just a few weeks it will be football season and the leaves will be changing as the temperatures turn a little more chilly. This is the time of year that baseball fans turn to the future in the present season; September call-ups. It's that special [...]
This past Monday the New York Mets were trailing by one run in the bottom of the ninth inning to the San Francisco Giants looking to split the four game series. With two out and no one on, who steps up to the plate but the one batter we all have had faith in time [...]
There's an old saying, "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". It seems that while watching the 2014 version of the New York Mets, that management hasn't learned that lesson. For example, in December of 2009, the Mets outbid no one in order to overpay for a solid defensive corner [...]
As the trade deadline draws uncomfortably close, the question looms whether or not the Mets will be buyers or sellers. Mets GM Sandy Alderson has been on record as saying the next ten games will decide the team's fate. While there have been rumors abounding that link the Mets to trading veterans like Bartolo Colon [...]
At the end of the 2010 season, the New York Mets were in shambles. They had multiple massive contracts for bad players, they were in the middle of a downward spiral of losing seasons and had a farm system that was a disaster. Due to the Bernie Madoff scandal, finances were abysmal and the organization [...]
With MLB's Summer classic less than a week away, there is no better time than the present to evaluate the state of the 2014 New York Mets and their potential second half. While Spring hopes are eternal, most teams see their playoff chances whither and die in the late Summer heat. Year after year, the [...]
When he debuted just a few weeks ago, Zack Wheeler was met with tremendous fanfare. Since then, and a 5.09 ERA with nine earned runs given up later, there have been whispers amongst the fan base, the amateur pontiffs in social media, and overly-opinionated professionals like Craig Carton of WFAN, that Wheeler is a bust. [...]