Fact: Matt Harvey is rehabbing his Tommy John repaired right elbow. Fact: the rehab will take a long time, most likely all summer. Fact: Port St. Lucie, Florida is dreary and kind of deserted in summertime. Fact: the New York Rangers do not play hockey in Port St. Lucie. Fact: very, very few supermodels tend [...]
The final two weeks of spring training are crucial for every team. This is when we start to see fewer split-squad games. This is when we see regular lineups on a regular basis. This is when pitchers are fully “stretched out,” in the modern parlance – close to any pitch count or innings limit. This [...]
If you’re reading this, you know the Mets have had very few things on which to hang their hat over the past few years. If the story isn’t about their bumbling, tone-deaf administration it’s about their finances or lack thereof. On the field, of course, their mere record – 374-436 from 2009 through 2013 – [...]
There were high hopes for this offseason from the New York Mets and Sandy Alderson. We fans were promised that with several onerous contracts off the books – if you’re reading this, you already know who they are – the ramp-up to 2014 was going to be an exciting shower of gold. To Alderson’s credit, [...]
There was the Miracle of 1969. There was its even more unlikely cousin, the “Ya Gotta Believe” pennant of 1973, which saw a second championship fall short – just when the Mets were poised to take it -- due to un-robust hitting and some managerial malpractice. What was lost on the management of the time [...]
When Sandy Alderson decided to trade R.A. Dickey, he insisted on a haul befitting a sitting Cy Young Award winner. In one of his best moves yet, the Son of Alder came home with Travis d’Arnaud, Wuilmer Becerra and fellow Nord Noah Syndergaard, right now looking for all the world like the lynchpin of the [...]
Imagine the surprise among New York/Metro Area Mets fans when they saw this morning’s Daily News . Sandy Alderson has apparently thrown down the gauntlet. In a supposedly “closed door” meeting – but of course knowing full well that anything quotable would find its way into a newspaper: such is the nature of a leaky [...]
Mets’ spring training is less than an official week old and we’ve already had a mini-drama. This latest teacup tempest involves embattled first baseman Ike Davis. Davis, the subject of many a trade rumor this winter, the man on the hot seat, the repository of much Met fan frustration, boiled over at New York Post [...]
The camps are open. Spring Training is almost in full swing for just about everybody. The Mets seem to be more eager than most clubs: a week before pitchers and catchers were to report and two full weeks before the full squad’s appearance was mandatory, the Mets had 60 – that’s “six-oh” – spring training [...]
In his first year-plus as a Major League pitcher, Matt Harvey has shown us he possesses an impressive set of tools. A biting fastball, a devastating curve and a fine change-up are the main pieces of his game arsenal. A solid pitcher’s build is the principal physical attribute. A bulldog, take-no-prisoners attitude fires his professional [...]
Maybe the long tunnel of snow the Northeast has been living with this year has unusually whetted the appetite of its baseball fans. Every day, there’s a countdown number, correlated to a uniform digit. On various websites yesterday, we saw a plethora of Ron Darling and John Stearns jerseys, telling us there were a mere [...]
The New York Post broke the story last week that Mets owners Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon and Saul Katz dodged a rather large bullet. Remember that big debt payment that was hanging over their heads? It was due in June? $250 million? Well, they don’t have to pay that in June. They don’t have to [...]