If you can get away with something cheaper [than $1,000,000.00] as the Mets did for the innings they squeezed out of [LaTroy] Hawkins and the hits they derived from Marlon Byrd ($700K), fan-freaking-tastic. There are budgets and strategies and dozens of contracts to take into consideration. Don’t throw money away if you don’t have to. [...]
The MLB General Managers’ Meetings are starting to wrap up down in Orlando, and – color me shocked! – the Mets haven’t done anything visible. I know…I know…It’s the GM Meetings, not the Winter Meetings: there’s very little in terms of actual player movement that gets done in this go-‘round, the meat of which goes [...]
It’s cool and rainy in the NYC area today. There is no baseball on the horizon. The Hot Stove is barely lit and probably won’t catch fire for at least a couple of weeks. So what does your intrepid columnist write about? He could pick apart the putative $30 million payroll increase, but there is [...]
Belated congratulations to the Boston Red Sox on their 2013 World Series victory. It was a well-deserved win by a group of guys who “know how to play the game,” “do it the right way,” and “have a team-first attitude.” Hoary clichés now dispensed with, the real reason was the usual suspects: great pitching, stout [...]
Your intrepid columnist has been having a lively Facebook debate over the past couple of days with some True New York Mets fans who are decrying the fact that the Mets could have had Michael Wacha – starting in a do-or-die World Series game 6 for the Cardinals tomorrow night – in the 2012 amateur [...]
Your intrepid columnist has been watching the pair of League Championship Series pretty closely. Both are terrifically riveting sets of games – as of this writing BOS/DET is knotted at 2, LA/STL sees the Cards up 3-2 – and both Series have proven the hoary point that “pitching wins pennants.” The roll call is pretty [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this, the first edition of a new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun [...]
Your intrepid columnist was recently engaging in some spirited Facebook debate with some fellow fans, who were moaning that 2006 was “our” last good year. Let us commence to differ. 2006 was a special year. The Mets got off to a super-fast start – they were 22-11 on May 10, after a 13-4 drubbing of [...]