Holiday Gift: A look back at the Mike Hampton trade

It was this week in the year 1999 that the New York Mets executed a trade that gave them two of the final pieces of their pennant-winning 2000 squad: acquiring NL Cy Young Award runner-up Mike Hampton and outfielder Derek Bell from the Houston Astros for Roger Cedeno, Octavio Dotel and minor league pitcher Kyle [...]

New playoff system doesn’t need adjusting… yet

In the first year of the newly-expanded MLB playoffs, the Wild Card Rounds and American and National League Division Serieses have been characterized by chaos. Much has been said about the 111-win Los Angeles Dodgers and the 101-win Mets and Atlanta Braves all failing to win playoff series. The NLCS features an 89-win San Diego [...]

Stanley Consuegra is turning heads in Brooklyn

Mets fans have a right to be giddy about center field prospect Alex Ramirez, a toolsy 19-year-old currently playing with High-A Brooklyn. However, there is another outfielder with the Cyclones who has turned the heads of scouts and talent evaluators – Stanley Consuegra. Listed at 6’2”, 206 lbs., the 21-year-old hasn’t exactly posted the most [...]

Mets in the Home Run Derby

Since its inception in 1985, the Home Run Derby has been a fixture of the MLB All-Star festivities. On Monday at Dodger Stadium, Mets first baseman Pete Alonso looks to become the first player to win the derby three consecutive years, and join Ken Griffey Jr. as the only players to win the derby three [...]

Four under the radar players to watch in Brooklyn this year

Baseball America recently released its midseason Top 30 prospects updates for all organizations, and unsurprisingly, most of the top prospects in the organization are in the upper levels of the minors – Francisco Alvarez, Brett Baty, Ronny Mauricio and Mark Vientos. There are also a fair amount of players in St. Lucie or in the [...]

Robinson Cano could create a problem for the Mets

In a day in age where a Major League manager’s most important job is managing clubhouse personalities, one of the biggest challenges that new Mets manager Buck Showalter faces in his inaugural season as the team’s skipper is navigating the Robinson Cano playing time situation. At 39 years old and having missed the entire 2021 [...]

Four potential free agent fits for the Mets

With increasingly frequent meetings between MLB and the MLBPA not bearing much fruit toward a new Collective Bargaining Agreement and an end to the owner-imposed lockout, it is becoming increasingly likely that the start of the 2022 MLB season will be delayed. However, once an agreement is reached and major league spring training opens, there [...]