The Mets are a team we should feel good about. They have young, skilled position players, a very talented starting pitching staff and enough ability in the bullpen that it’s not out of the realm of possibility that those pitchers will rebound in 2020. But as always, Fred and Jeff Wilpon can’t help but undermine [...]
Here’s a bold prediction. Edwin Diaz will be better next year. The peripheral stats support that. An expectation that he won’t be better is just pessimistic. He was literally the worst closer in baseball last year. He could just be average and that would be significantly better. You know what, that’s not bold enough. Since [...]
Yes, this appears to be a mildly ridiculous question, but there is some veracity to it being considered. Winning multiple Cy Young Awards is not a Hall of Fame prerequisite. Neither is winning back to back Cy Young Awards. However, winning two does help the argument. The history of the Cy Young is full of [...]
The Mets won 86 games in 2019 and were in the playoff hunt for the second wild card spot until nearly the end. The team gave the fan base exciting baseball for the first time since 2016 and actually have a group of young players that give hope that this team won’t fall back into [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. On August 6th, 2014, the San Diego Padres hired [...]
On December 17th, 2012, the Mets traded R.A. Dickey, the reigning Cy Young award winner, to the Toronto Blue Jays for a package of players head lined by Travis d’Arnaud. Up to that point, d’Arnaud was known for two things: being the unanimous number one catching prospect in Baseball and having been a key piece [...]
This is the conclusion to a series of posts postulating what could have been for the Mets, dating back to the 1962 expansion draft. Some of the players mentioned in these posts played for the Mets, some didn’t. In the end, these posts have been an exercise in logical fantasy to see what differences there [...]
Note: This is a series of articles creating an alternate history for the Mets. They started with a reinvention of the 1962 expansion draft and have progressed from there. In actual history, some of these players were Mets, some never were. This isn’t meant to be an historical re-examination of the franchise. It’s supposed to [...]
In 1973, our Mets reached the pinnacle of baseball for the second time in five years. The legendary Willie Mays was able to end his career as a World Series champion instead of how the real 1973 ended, with Mays being remembered for several flubbed plays in that championship contest. Tom Seaver won his second [...]
After a terrific regular season in 1972 and a nail biting rush to the division title with the Pirates, the Mets had fallen short of returning to the World Series, again falling to the Big Red Machine from Cincinnati, as they had in 1970. After losing out to the Reds twice in three years, the [...]
After winning back to back division titles, our Mets went into the 1971 season with high hopes. Unfortunately, despite a solid 90 or so wins, the Mets were outplayed by the Pittsburgh Pirates en route to a World Series Championship. It was a disappointment, yet the team had to hold to those high expectations as [...]
By the end of the National League Championship series in 1970, it was the clear that the Mets were here to stay. Back to back NLCS appearances and a young roster full of talent made the Mets, former laughing stocks, into a force in the National League. Heading into the 1971 offseason, off of back [...]