As the offseason progresses, it seems that the offseason gets slower and slower. With all the chatter about the Mets looking to upgrade on offense, at times it seems like the only problem not facing the Mets these days is the rotation. That being said, the Mets should make a change in their area of [...]
Yoenis Cespedes is a beast. Physicists examine the explosion of ball off his bat for the Big Bang Theory. His home runs make fireworks look like pop caps. He runs so fast he makes Speedy Gonzalez look like regular Gonzalez. He is, the most interesting man in baseball. Cespedes joined the New York Mets for [...]
If you go way way back in Mets history you know that the earliest off seasons featured the team’s front office just trying to add some major league caliber players to the roster. But if you fast forward to the modern era of bullpen usage you know that one off season task the Mets continually [...]
There’s always speculation this time of year about what free agents the Mets might sign and what trades we might make. But this year the hot stove is really boiling over. Playing in the World Series and then having arguably your two best hitters hit free agency will do that. Adding to the intrigue is [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! May all of your family and football traditions go off without a hitch. Obviously, here we’re all thankful that the Mets made the World Series and we had baseball into November. In that way, it seems like Thanksgiving is coming mighty early this year. Another thing that makes it odd is that there’s [...]
Hi! Happy Thanksgiving! You haven’t seen me in awhile. A nefarious set of circumstances has kept your intrepid columnist away from the keyboard these past three Thursdays and it’s good to be back. At long last, finally thawed out and recovered from some wintery exercises at Citi Field – among other activities – a post-season [...]
The Mets seem to be notorious for trading away good talent for little in return, not trading for someone who could have made a difference, and keeping players who should be traded too long. While there are a number of players who fit into each one of these categories, I would like to focus on [...]
As another Hot Stove season dawns upon us, Mets fans go back to a familiar niche: talking about the future and complaining about management. In this specific installment, the topic of the immediate future is at hand. The near certain departure of Daniel Murphy will get mixed reactions from fans, some ranging from hate comments [...]
We all know the story, and we all remember the headlines. We probably remember the frustration we felt, like the wind was knocked from our guts when we heard that Jenrry Mejia would be suspended a second time, resulting in a 162 game suspension. Although he will not be back until August next season, there [...]
Major league baseball general managers have some things in common with high profile politicians. They both have a public profile used while facing the press or, in the case of politicians, in debates. But they also have to answer to the “money interests.” The politicians have the big donors to court while the GM’s are [...]
Prior to last year, Zack Wheeler was thought of as an essential part of the Mets’ future. The hard-throwing, 4-pitch righty has as much #1 potential as the 2015 stalwarts who pitched us into the World Series. While Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz dominated on the mound and the back pages [...]
The 2015 Mets were full of holes; no fan or analyst could argue that. Obviously the team improved at the deadline, but they still didn’t quite have the team to win it all. In the postseason, many things went right for the Metropolitans in the first two rounds. However, in the World Series the bats [...]