Let’s start this article by saying that if David Wright were ever to be traded away at some point during his extension, I do believe that Mets fans might riot in the middle of Citi Field. So this article will assume, and that is a crazy word, that Wright will live out his remaining contract [...]
At the Winter Meetings in Florida last week, legendary sports reporter Peter Gammons spoke about the Mets signing Curtis Granderson. Like most people who were asked, he thought that the signing was a good turnaround for a club that’s refrained from spending any substantial money in the past three years, and hasn’t had a successful [...]
The classic manager - think Bobby Cox, Sparky Anderson or Casey Stengel - is gone. Once these titans of baseball knowledge were the end-all, be-all of a team's success or failure. Not so anymore with General Managers taking a more pronounced role in who plays by designing teams from the top-down. The big money player [...]