Here are my New Year wishes for some of our favorite Mets. David Wright: to stay healthy and get the support in the lineup you deserve. Matt Harvey: a quick and full recovery. Travis d’Arnaud: to stay healthy and to start to live up to the hype. Daniel Murphy: to keep improving your fielding and [...]
It’s still not a done deal that Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka is going to be posted by his team the Rakuten Golden Eagles. The team isn’t thrilled at all with the posting system being capped at $20 million. They had been envisioning three or possibly four times that for their ace. It is a bit [...]
On December 10, 2008 it was announced that the New York Mets had just signed free agent closer Francisco Rodriguez – K-Rod for short. At the time it seemed like a nice deal for the Mets. K-Rod was coming off a record breaking 62 saves for the Los Angeles Angels. Yeah, it was very likely [...]
The Mets need to make a splash. They need to do something to both upgrade the team and excite the fan base. Tampa Bay doesn’t need to but will still most likely want to move their ace David Price before he becomes too expensive for them. This is how the Rays operated in the past [...]
There’s a lot of chatter now that the Mets are at least interested in Bronson Arroyo. While this certainly can’t be considered the “big splash” Sandy Alderson was talking about, it could be a nice move for the Mets. The Mets need a veteran starter somebody who can eat innings, win games and show the [...]
Being in a major media market the Mets have always been fairly lucky to have fairly good broadcasters doing color and play by play of their games. Thought it might be fun to compare the classic trio of Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner with today’s trio of leads: Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and [...]
Question 1) What is this “big splash” Sandy Alderson is talking about? We know it’s surely not a trade for Prince Fielder; which I don’t think the Mets even considered but that trade knocked out any chance that the Mets trade with Texas for one of their shortstops. The Mets kicked the tires (gently) on [...]
Now that the hot stove is starting to heat up I thought I would do something a bit different. Thought I’d talk about some of the Mets trades from the past that I remember very clearly as if they happened yesterday. These are the trades that really got me fired up or down. December 12, [...]
In kind of a follow up to last week’s story, I thought it might be fun to look at the five Mets who have the best chance of making the Hall of Fame. Carlos Beltran played for the Mets from 2005 until 2010. He has also played for the Royals, Astros, Giants and Cardinals. He [...]
Thought it might be interesting to compile a list of the dozen (or so) players ever to play at least one game in a Mets uniform but who didn’t have their best years as a Met. A lot of great talent fits that bill. 1) Willie Mays spent 1972 and 1973 with the Mets. His [...]
For the 2014 Mets to get better two things are clear: they need to upgrade at shortstop and they need to add some pop to the lineup. Preferably the upgrade can lead off and the pop will come from the outfield. Scanning the list of available outfielders and possible shortstops there is potential for one [...]
