Just two months ago I sat in the living room of an off-campus house I rented with a few of my friends watching the Mets lose (well maybe not, but probably). My friend Mark turned to me and said, “You know who the Mets should sign? Bobby Abreu.” “They actually did a few days ago,” [...]
Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson, manager Terry Collins, and pitchers Jon Niese, Jacob deGrom, and Matt Harvey held a Q&A session with season ticket holders yesterday at Citi Field. Unsurprisingly, there was really nothing of substance to take away from it. Even Alderson's staunchest supporters (including yours truly) can no longer defend the way he [...]
The Mets have received LHP Blake Taylor from the Pittsburgh Pirates as the player to be named later in the April Ike Davis trade. Taylor was the second-round pick of the Pirates in the 2013 MLB Draft, and was ranked as a top 40 draft prospect by ESPN's Keith Law leading up to the draft. [...]
Prior to the 2012 Draft, MLB instituted a new policy in how it handled the signing of amateur players selected in the June affair. With these new rules in place, it was hard to determine what the best strategy to employ was going to be. My preference would be to go above the slot recommendation [...]
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. This time honored saying, paraphrasing a quote from Emerson, speaks to the power of innovation. Be new, different and better and the world will love you. As Mets fans, we would be thrilled if the team achieved even two of those [...]
As of Friday morning, June 13th, the Mets are 29 and 37. The trade deadline is approaching and the Mets have two paths they can take. Over the past several years, they’ve chosen the path, at the deadline or in the offseason, of trading away veterans for prospects (with the exception of spending free agent [...]
This year, the Mets decided to do their fans a favor and tank in June instead of late-July. This way, we can get a jump on our summer plans without having to bother paying attention to a possible pennant race. It certainly warms the heart that 2014 was supposed to be the year and the [...]
There has been talk festering throughout the Mets' blogosphere that the Mets should admit that they are going nowhere fast, swallow their pride and trade David Wright away for prospects while he still has some value. Wait, what? You mean trading the franchise and the effervescent face of the franchise? Well, before we dismiss it [...]
Mets fans, especially those on Twitter, have a fascination with Daniel Murphy. The #ImWith28 movement seems to grow with each and every game, as Murphy is proving to be one of the Mets better hitters. After last night’s game, Murphy is tied with Paul Goldschimidt of Arizona for the National League lead in hits with [...]
The Mets have not been in the post season since 2006 and they have not had a winning record since 2008. Since 2008, the Mets have gone through two managers and two GM’s. Every season since ‘08, Mets fans have gotten their hopes up before the season began and then had them crushed by the [...]
.557. .557 was the OPS of Carlos Zambrano in his first of three silver slugger seasons. Travis d’Arnaud had an OPS of .544, a number many call “atrocious.” At one point, d’Arnaud was the prized prospect in the Philadelphia and Toronto farm systems- and even ours. He was traded for two Cy Young award winners: [...]