Back in 2022, with teams forced to trim their active rosters down from 28 to 26, the Mets decided to move on from Robinson Cano despite owing him $37.5 million on his 10-year, $240 million contract, which was originally signed with the Seattle Mariners. Cano, who was 39 at the time, had only played in [...]
Now that we are deeply entrenched into the playoffs, one in which the Mets are again watching from home, it is easy to fall back into the “why again do we root for this team?” mode. A little more than 60 years in existence, we only have two world series titles to show for our [...]
Trying to create a Mets roster for the start of 2024, from both a player and payroll standpoint, has so many variables involved. One variable that is off the table is whether we can spend money, because Steve Cohen has shown he is willing to open the purse strings well beyond reason to build a [...]
Luis Guillorme recently was activated and had a lackluster return against the Marlins. He flied out, grounded out, and grounded into a double play hitting the ball back to the pitcher. Given all the disappointment with the Mets this season, he had totally dropped off my radar and many did not even remember he went [...]
It’s a very small sample, yet it says a lot about how the Met organization is structured. A number of starting players were dealt away before the trade deadline, and it appears that that some solid not too far from prime-time players were received in exchange. At least that’s the hope. There are those on [...]
Last week I commented on one of our articles that the upcoming series against the Dodgers was the key to whether we were going to be buyers or sellers at the trade deadline. The key was and has been to put more runs up on the board while containing the opposition’s scoring. Hardly a controversial [...]
Danny Mendick appeared in Saturday’s starting lineup as the Mets third basemen. It was certainly not what the fans expected and not much is known about this under the radar choice to be called up in the face of the Eduardo Escobar trade. We all thought that Ronny Mauricio might get the call, but the [...]
It was a tough week of poor pitching and a lack of timely hitting that has brought us to this turning point in the season. Max Scherzer disintegrated last Tuesday against the crosstown rivals, and what was worse was with TV blackouts, only the YES network, with Yankee broadcasters, played the game on TV. Justin [...]
Throughout the years, the Mets have trotted out a variety of young pitchers with high hopes that they would turn out to be staples in the rotation. It rarely worked out that way. Today we will pluck out a pitcher from each of their most successful seasons, and then bring it back to the present [...]
Editor's Note - This was written before Monday night's game
At this point on the calendar, the Mets spring training record sits at 9-12 with six games left to play before opening day in Miami on March 30. While we always hope for a strong spring we usually end up, in a good year, close to .500. It would be nice to start off with [...]
Filling the third base position has always been a challenge for the Mets as demonstrated by the fact that they have trotted out 182 different players to try and handle the hot corner since their 1962 inaugural season. Of those 182 players, only 25 have played more than 100 games. 112 players appeared at 3B [...]