In 2012 and 2013 the Mets watched the rest of baseball spend money and bring in quality baseball players to improve their teams while they made do with Scott Hairston and Marlon Byrd. Then comes 2014… 2014 was to be the Met’s year. This would be the year where ownership would not be able to [...]
In general there are three kinds of teams – Those with a few talented players, and no depth – these teams are generally bad; those with no standout players, but lots of depth – these teams are good, but not championship level; and those with a few talented players, and lots of depth – these [...]
Sandy Alderson has been cryptic this offseason in regard to what he is going to do about the shortstop position. On the one hand, he hinted at signing Stephen Drew when he stated that he would be open to signing any free-agent on the market. However, he also said he believed that Ruben Tejada could [...]
Note: This is a continuing short series comparing (at a high level) where the Mets roster stood last year at this time and where it stands heading into Spring Training 2014. We're quickly approaching the reporting date for pitchers and catchers and the start of baseball for 2014. The off-season may not have gone as [...]
Ike Davis is still a New York Met. Despite months of dangling the inconsistent slugger the past two months, Sandy Alderson has failed to find any takers for Davis. Reports have had teams like Milwaukee and Baltimore inquiring the Mets for a deal, but nothing ever materialized. Lucas Duda, in the meantime, has been getting [...]
Statistical analysts have been saying for years now that stolen bases are not only overvalued, but that caught stealing is a tremendous loss of value. The logic behind that statement seems pretty solid. A team only gets 27 outs to score runs, and getting caught stealing takes one of those precious few outs away. Additionally, [...]
Your intrepid columnist is usually pretty bad at predictions. Oh, not a Mike Francesa-level of ridicularity, but the mark is usually missed. If the Mets’ first baseman is projected to hit 35 home runs, he will invariably hit eight. If a star pitcher looks like a lock to win four games, he will break the [...]
The New York Mets have had the most active offseason since Sandy Alderson took over as general manager. They have made big-ticket signings to go along with the minor moves that had been characteristic of the majority of the team’s transactions over the past several offseasons. Although this part of the baseball season is not [...]
Stephen Drew is still a free agent, and it could be a while before he gets signed. The former Boston Red Sox SS turned down a one-year, $14.5 million qualifying offer earlier this offseason in the hopes that his agent Scott Boras could get him the three-year deal he is looking for. It’s now the [...]
On January 14, 2014, Bud Selig told espn.com that he is 100% certain that he will retire after the 2014 season. This is a huge loss for baseball, as Selig has held the spot of Commissioner since 1998 and has provided the game with things such as advanced drug tests, peace between the MLB and [...]
Let's travel to another dimension; a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey to a wonderful land whose boundaries are that of the imagination. Next stop, the Mets Possibility Zone (apologies to the Twilight Zone). So far this offseason the Mets have made a total of three major league deals [...]
It snowed the morning of January 18th. That was the scheduled date for the first annual Queens Baseball Convention – “QBC” for short. Your intrepid columnist wasn’t going to miss this for all the ice in Antarctica; besides, what better way to spend a snowy Saturday than to take three trains and one subway out [...]