Wilmer Flores was promoted Thursday and will start at shortstop today against Philadelphia. That is a necessary move by the Mets as the Ruben Tejada, Omar Quintanilla combination was performing at sub Rey Ordonez levels (take a look at the numbers). Will Flores save the season? No, but the Mets are a team in transition [...]
Baseball expansion drafts are fascinating things. To add a major league franchise is no small feat. It involves approval from the league, a wealthy person or people to pour in a lot of upfront cash and a city ready with a stadium and able to support the team moving forward. It’s the reason that expansion [...]
April trades are fairly rare in baseball. This is because teams, for the most part, don’t know what they are going to be yet. Are they going to be in the playoff race, working to develop a team for the future or be totally out of it and looking to make trades for the future [...]
The Mets' signing of Kyle Farnsworth during the offseason came with little fanfare. It was a classic Sandy Alderson veteran player signing; bring in a veteran on a minor league contract and have him fight for a spot on the team. However, as spring training progressed, unlike last year’s signings of Marlon Byrd and Latroy [...]
The Mets announced on Friday, April 04, 2014 that Lucas Duda will be the team’s starting first baseman, adding greater confusion to the first base question that has been following the team all winter and through spring training. The announcement is another strange turn in the debacle that the front office has made of the [...]
Sandy Alderson put out the word over the last few days that Ike Davis and Lucas Duda would both make the Opening Day roster. In an offseason that could be argued as a success, this situation is a massive failure and it’s somewhat amazing that the front office can’t see that. The situation isn’t a [...]
Opening day is 10 days away. The anticipation for that first pitch is rising and we’re all ready to settle in for seven more months of baseball. With that in mind, it’s time to see where this team stands in general as we countdown to opening day. So, here’s what I see as being the [...]
Like many young Americans, I wanted to be a baseball player when I was a growing up. Baseball was that first sport to catch my eye. The memories I have of my early experiences with Baseball are ones I cherish. They start with listening to Bob Murphy and Gary Thorne’s play by play as the [...]
The Mets shortstop situation seems to change weekly. It’s obvious that the Mets aren’t satisfied with their current players at the position (Ruben Tejada, Omar Quintanilla, Wilfredo Tovar and possibly Wilmer Flores), but are also not willing to go overboard for any shortstop that is not currently on the roster. So, we are all subject [...]
The Mets identified shortstop as a part of their wish list leading into the offseason. While there have been perceptible additions to the outfield and the pitching staff (Curtis Granderson, Chris Young, Bartolo Colon, John Lannan, Kyle Farnsworth and Jose Valverde), shortstop has remained status quo. Part of that is due to the fact that [...]
I, like many Mets fans, felt that shortstop was a position that needed to be filled outside of the organization this winter. As the winter progressed and the targets fell off of the board, it became apparent that Ruben Tejada would most likely be our opening day shortstop again when the 2014 season started (barring [...]
Every good team needs the glue guys, also known as those players on the roster that are flexible about playing time and position. There are several reasons that make this a necessary part of any successful team. The first is that Baseball is a notoriously long season. Players can’t play every day and get injured. [...]