Depending on what stage of grief you may be in at this point you might be ready to look back at some of the excellent things that went on with the Mets during the 2015 regular and post seasons. Remembering back one full year ago we were hoping that the front office might be able [...]
Interesting stuff happened on Thursday. It was revealed that the Mets checked in on Andrelton Simmons, were told it would take Harvey or deGrom, and promptly checked back out. Simmons was ultimately dealt to the Angels. Meanwhile there seems to be a chance that the Mets would not even tender a contract to shortstop Ruben [...]
As the hot stove simmers, GMs are kicking the tires on a free agent class stacked with top and mid-tier starting pitchers. At first blush, this might seem a bad year for the Mets’ front office to dabble in long term contracts. After all, Mr. Met might be the only mascot in baseball who can [...]
In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, there were three big factors in Major League Baseball: offensive production, big names hitting the free agent market every year, and the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox spending more money than imaginable to win championships. Nowadays, there are three new big factors in Major League Baseball: [...]
A+: Matt Netter, San Francisco Giants – The Giants had a good amount of money to spend and the ability to build onto their core of players without trading away young talent. They brought in Alex Gordon for a song ($15.1 Million), overpaid for Daniel Murphy ($14 Million) and filled out their rotation with Yovani [...]
It has been just under two years since I began writing for Mets360.com, and it has been an incredibly educational and pleasurable time spent with you all. As I need to take some time away for a while, I am left wondering if I can leave something for you. Clearly my signing of Yoenis Cespedes [...]
Ok, so things did not exactly go as planned for the Nationals under my reign as General Manager. My idea was to trade Jayson Werth, Danny Espinosa, and my entire bullpen and sign key free agents. My only problem: nobody wanted anyone I had offered. I did make a few trades, and was able to [...]
We heard the name of the tall, right-handed pitcher who came over from the Toronto Blue Jays in the R.A. Dickey trade. Anticipation within the Mets fan base mounted when hearing about Noah Syndergaard’s fastball and stuff; meanwhile most of us never saw the guy throw a pitch. As we followed his impressive 2013 campaign [...]
Jason Heyward is going to get paid this off-season, and he's going to get paid a lot. Part of that has to do with how Major League Baseball free agency works, what with insane contracts that get crazier and crazier each year. Most of it, though, is because of just how great a player he's [...]
Let’s pretend that you are a baseball fan but for some reason (new baby, ridiculous job demands, or being on a space mission to Mars) you were not able to follow this season or post-season. Now you are ready to be caught up and have been told that the recently played World Series featured two [...]
Following their 2014 World Series win, the San Francisco Giants missed the playoffs in 2015 with an 84-78 record and second place finish in the NL West. While many of the core pieces were still in place from their three recent World Series rings, some tinkering would need to be done as several players were [...]
The Mets were looking to make a move in the 2014 offseason that would improve the roster and make the Mets contenders for the Wild Card (that’s right… before the seasons we were hoping to be contenders). Michael Cuddyer was the man Alderson picked and, because none of us are perfect, I thought it was [...]