The Mets are fresh off a National League pennant, you may have heard. Their remarkable play down the stretch to win the NL East fueled a surge in attendance, which will have a concomitant up-tick overall for 2016. They outpitched the Dodgers – crowned by most in the MSM as having the best starters in [...]
Rumors everywhere have it that the Mets have signed free agent reliever Antonio Bastardo to a two-year, $12 million deal. Everyone who was criticizing that the Mets only signed Jerry Blevins to a one-year deal and didn't pay enough to get him should be satisfied with this move. Bastardo had a very nice year in [...]
It is a given that the New York Mets will go in 2016 as far as its young gifted starting staff will take them. If we somehow knew that the combination of Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Stephen Matz, Zack Wheeler (hoping for a June or July return), and Bartolo Colon (not so young [...]
Time and time again, the Mets have shown a lack of faith in Juan Lagares’ ability to be starting in centerfield every day. In 2013, Lagares came up and was a solution, as the team shuffled through Rick Ankiel, Matt den Dekker, Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Jordany Valdespin in centerfield. From that day, we saw what [...]
Short of re-signing Yoenis Cespedes, it’s unlikely many fans will be happy with the Mets’ offseason. Surprisingly, one of the reasons will not be a lack of moves, as Sandy Alderson has participated in both the free agent and trade market. He’s doing his best to remove that “semi-active GM” title from his resume. Instead, [...]
As of this writing the Mets remain on the periphery of the Yoenis Cespedes market, and there's a non-zero chance they land him. That would be rather surprising, though. Instead, it's more likely that the team goes to war in 2016 with their current outfield alignment and perhaps another yet-to-be-signed backup. That means a platoon [...]
It’s a thin line between being released and getting a million dollar contract. Let’s consider the lines for two relief pitchers for the 2015 Mets: Pitcher A – Had a 2.52 ERA and held batters to a .207/.342/.326 line after 111 batters faced. Pitcher B – Had a 3.35 ERA and held batters to a [...]
While every Met fan counts down the days until the 2016 season starts, we each have our own great expectations of what our favorite players might accomplish. The rookies Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz will now have a full season to display their immense talents. Perhaps this is the year Travis d’Arnaud avoids [...]
Whither Yoenis Cespedes? At the end of the 2015 season, it was all but a foregone conclusion that he would not be returning to the Mets. He was great to have around for the stretch run and his production propelled an erstwhile feeble offense to heights not seen around here since 2006. He just hit [...]
If you are any kind of baseball fan at all you know that the newest inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York will be Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza. Some people are heavily invested in the question of who should be in the hall and who should not be there. [...]
Multiple media sources are saying that Keith Hernandez has agreed to stay on with SNY. Hernandez is my favorite of the three broadcasters, so this is great news as far as I'm concerned. I recognize that I hold him to a different standard than Gary Cohen. As Cohen hardly ever misses a game, that's okay [...]
Without signing Yoenis Cespedes, the lineup for the Mets will put a lot of confidence in David Wright to make up for the loss of Cespedes. Unfortunately, the captain has been injured over the past couple of years, and has played in over 120 games two times in the past five years. The health concerns [...]