Michael Salfino writes for the Wall Street Journal as well as Yahoo! Sports. A couple of days ago he posted this on social media: Painful night for Familia, #Mets fans but is this team even any good? Salfino’s a good guy, and a Mets fan, too. This wasn’t a putdown. Instead, it was a legitimate [...]
J.B. These could be the initials that live forever in Mets’ infamy. For the last few years a Mets fan would associate the initials with Jason Bay, a free agent bust that played for the team in 2010 through 2012. This year’s trade deadline acquisition is also a J.B., Jay Bruce. We Met fans may [...]
A lot of Mets fans have never warmed up to Curtis Granderson. He got off to an incredibly bad start with the team in April of 2014 and seemingly fans have held that against him ever since. Or maybe it’s because he doesn’t hit for a shiny average and a lot of people still cling [...]
In 2016, the Mets had high hopes of riding their pitching staff back to the World Series. With a starting five of Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz and Bartolo Colon with Zack Wheeler expected to return in June, the team had every reason to be optimistic. The 43-year-old Bartolo Colon has been [...]
Here we are in the home stretch and right in the thick of things. This season has, in no way, gone the way management, players or fans could have expected. We could probably assemble a team from our disabled list (if, magically, they were all healthy) that could beat our current team. Yet somehow, we [...]
Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow has signed a minor league contract with the Mets organization. No, it's not April Fool's Day an no, this isn't an Onion article. The Heisman Trophy winner and University of Florida star turned Denver Broncos and NY Jets flop has set his sites on a second career as a pro [...]
The Mets hit a lot of home runs and the pitching staff for the Reds is on a pace to establish the record for most homers allowed in a single season. It was a match that looked great on paper and did not disappoint in real life, as New York clubbed nine homers in the [...]
James Loney, simply put, is a below average baseball player. He started a promising major league career in 2006 (albeit in just 102 at bats) and followed it up with an even more impressive season in 2007 as a 23 year old. He showed offensive skills well better than most first basemen in the game [...]
Here are some Mets or Mets-related tidbits that I've found interesting. The Mets are 12-4 in their last 16 games. That's their best stretch of 16 games this season since going 13-3 in late April. The earlier stretch was pitching dominated, as the club had a 2.80 ERA leading to the 13-3 mark. But while [...]
Kelly Johnson did not start last night for the Mets. That’s not a big surprise, as Johnson had started the three previous games and you can count on the fingers of one hand the times he’s done that since being acquired by the Mets and still have fingers left over. This despite the fact that [...]
Just how hot has Asdrubal Cabrera been since returning from the disabled list on August 19th? He's raised his batting average 19 points to .274 over just 14 games, if that's any indication. His triple slash over those games is a ridiculous .435/.471/.913. His OPS during that stretch is 1.384 for goodness' sake. He's been [...]
On the heels of the Mets’ exciting win last night – their third straight over the hated Marlins of Miami; another game’s worth of daylight put between the two teams, who had both been competing for the second Wild Card berth in the National League – word came down that slugging second baseman Neil Walker [...]