The Syracuse Mets are mired in one of the worst stretches for a team in minor league baseball. They have lost 12 consecutive games and 15 of their last 17, four of those on walk-offs. Syracuse is 11-30 and wakes up Monday 18.0 games back in their division, the clunky-named Triple-A East Northeast. The team [...]
The Tampa Bay Rays had an astonishing nine first-round picks in the 2011 MLB Draft. Until Saturday, only four of them have made the major leagues, with Blake Snell being the lone impact player of the group. With the MLB debut of Jake Hager with the Mets on Saturday, that list has now grown to [...]
After a fast start to the 2020 season, we took a look last August at what was different with Mets first baseman and outfielder Dominic Smith. He continued his hot start through the end of the season and even received some down ballot votes for NL MVP, finishing 13th in a breakout season. But this [...]
Last Thursday Major League Baseball announced major rules changes at all four levels of the minor leagues for the 2021 season. They were met to mixed reactions, though many fans came down on the side of being against some of these drastic changes. In case you missed it, the changes are as follows: Triple-A: The [...]
On Wednesday night, the New York Mets announced that minor league outfielder Tim Tebow had retired from his professional baseball career. He played a total of three years in the Mets organization, batting .223/.299/.338, topping out at Triple-A Syracuse. “I loved every minute of the journey, but at this time I feel called in other [...]
February 13, 1920 is one of the most important days in the history of baseball. It was on that day that Andrew “Rube” Foster met at the YMCA on 18th and Vine St. in Kansas City, Missouri with owners of six other black baseball teams and formed the first Negro National League. At its peak, [...]
The New York Mets' recent acquisition of Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco sent a welcome message to fans that Steve Cohen was not just an owner who would talk about winning, but would walk the walk. While other MLB teams have pointed to millions in lost revenue from 2020 and the free agent market has [...]
There were seven work stoppages in Major League Baseball from 1972 through 1995. Since the disaster of the 94-95 strike ended, the sport has seen a 26-year window of peace, unprecedented in the times of unionized athletes. As profits surged throughout the late 90s and into the 2000s both players and owners were happy with [...]
Heading into 2005, Mets GM Omar Minaya made big strides toward turning the team into a true contender. Perhaps the move that signaled that more than any other was his signing of Carlos Beltran to a seven-year, $119 million contract to patrol center field. In the years since, the world learned who Bernard Madoff was, [...]
Since his call up in the 2017 season, Jeff McNeil has quickly made his mark on the New York Mets. Even as he has garnered headlinesnfor his strong hitting, knobless bat and defensive adventures around the diamond, it almost feels like he still is one of the more underrated players in the game. In only [...]
Since coming over in a trade with the Seattle Mariners before 2019, Edwin Diaz has been the most-maligned member of the Mets pitching staff. After a dreadful first season in New York, the flame-throwing righty had a 7.71 ERA through three appearances in 2020 and was demoted from the closer’s role. Entering Monday, Diaz is [...]
After a rough stretch in the early 1990s, the 1996 season was a transitional season for the New York Mets. The team finished with a dreadful 71-91 record, good for fourth-place in the NL East, but gave fans a foreshadowing of the success which followed in the later part of the decade. Generation K was [...]