In an age in baseball where there is a glut of pitching, in an offseason where there is plenty of front-line talent available, and with all the assets the New York Mets have the ability to move, it seems Dillon Gee is the one they are shopping around the most aggressively. Gee is a fine [...]
As you get your work week started, here's a few links and notes you may have missed this weekend: Joel Sherman of the New York Post argues for the Mets to make an aggressive push to acquire Troy Tulowitzki from the Colorado Rockies. I don't find myself agreeing with Sherman very often, but here he [...]
With it becoming more and more evident every day that Wilmer Flores is likely to be the 2015 Opening Day shortstop, the Mets used the Winter Meetings to fill a few gaps in their roster - a second lefty out of the bullpen (Rule 5 draftee Sean Gilmartin and Scott Rice re-signing on a minor [...]
Here are some links and stories you might have missed during the weekend to get your Monday started: Friend of the site Greg Prince of Faith and Fear in Flushing has a rather lengthy piece on Lucas Duda's breakout season, naming him the Nikon Camera Player of the Year Award winner. Prince chronicles how Duda [...]
The Mets were never going to trade for Didi Gregorius. The Diamondbacks asking price was too high (Noah Syndergaard) and Gregorius didn't fit the Mets' need for an offensive-minded shortstop. A platoon-at-best all-glove, no-bat was not going to happen at a steep price. And the glove isn't even that good, as both UZR and DRS [...]
Here's some things to get you caught up on any Mets news you may have missed this holiday weekend: Joel Sherman of the New York Post writes that the Mets' depth in pitching is not something that is likely to be leveraged as part of a blockbuster trade. Sherman argues that with the amount of [...]
Late Friday, news broke that the Oakland Athletics had agreed to a trade sending star third baseman Josh Donaldson to the Toronto Blue Jays for Brett Lawrie and three prospects. Many were baffled by the trade, but it's impossible to see how. For years the Oakland Athletics have been cash-strapped for the past 20 years, [...]
With the Mets pursuit of a shortstop for the 2015 season still simmering, former Mets General Manager Steve Phillips penned an ESPN insider article opining that the Mets need to go out and make a trade for a superstar player to take the leap to being legitimate contenders. That opinion is right in line with [...]
When was the last time a Met player came out and confidently predicted success for the upcoming season? Was it "Team to beat"-gate from 2007/2008 with Jimmy Rollins and Carlos Beltran? Really since then the only pre-season choruses sung by Mets players have been about "taking some people by surprise," which is code for "we're [...]
When the news broke Sunday afternoon that the Atlanta Braves traded their young second baseman Tommy La Stella to the Chicago Cubs for international signee Arodys Vizcaino and international bonus slots, the move came as a bit of a surprise. Why would the GM Jed Hoyer and the Cubs, a team already with a glut [...]
The Mets have announced today the signing of OF Michael Cuddyer to a two year contract. Cuddyer is a career .279/.347/.466 hitter. Since Cuddyer received a qualifying offer from the Colorado Rockies, the Mets will surrender the 15th overall pick in the 2015 Amateur Draft. Cuddyer has struggled with injuries recently, and hasn't played in [...]
This season the development of Jeurys Familia and Jenrry Mejia in the back end of the Mets bullpen got a lot of attention, but flying more under the radar was the season that Carlos Torres put together in middle relief. Torres solidified himself as one of Terry Collins’ favorite arms with his stellar performance, striking [...]