Major League Baseball officially announced their choices for the Hall of Fame. Well, actually, they didn't announce anyone this year. The big controversy is that baseball writers did not elect a single player for baseball's highest honor. While I understand the dilemma they faced with names like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, there are others [...]
In the past four years, Michael Bourn has been a very productive player. He had his best year yet in 2012, posting a 6.4 fWAR, and no doubt had visions of a lucrative free agent contract dancing in his head. Yet Bourn remains unsigned here in the second week of January. Earlier, Sandy Alderson indicated [...]
Though it may be hard to believe, Johan Santana is entering the final year of his massive six-year, $137.5 million contract, signed with the New York Mets following a February 2008 trade from the Minnesota Twins. While there is a $25 million team option for 2014, it is clear to anyone who has watched General [...]
Is the title of this post a statement or merely a question about the lack of news surrounding the moves both the Mets and Yankees are making lately? As it has been widely reported, it appears that Scott Hairston is mulling his options between two teams: the Mets and the Yankees. Hairston is looking for [...]
A true Mets hero begins what we all hope will be a short journey this afternoon. You may have read somewhere that this is Mike Piazza’s first time on the Hall of Fame ballot and it remains to be seen if his on-field accomplishments will be enough to usher him through the doors on his [...]
This year’s ballot is extremely crowded, due to a host of players who should have been elected previously combined with a strong freshman class. It’s only going to get worse next year and unless the BBWAA starts electing people who are clearly qualified or the Hall of Fame changes it’s rules on who is eligible [...]
If the season were to begin today, the New York Mets would have a starting rotation that was questionable at best. Johan Santana was a disaster after his historic no hitter and his health is a major factor. The Mets even have been rumored to be shopping him. The question is who would be dumb [...]
Looking ahead 1.3 months into the future I see a number of exciting storylines to keep Met fans (even those who have lost heart with the 2013 season already) something to watch. I thought I would get this boulder rolling early so we could get some discussion started about where it might land (and whom [...]
The cliché that we learned growing up is that sports build character. The line they try to feed us now is that sports don’t build character so much as they reveal it. Like most things, I imagine the truth is somewhere in the middle. In player-management disputes, I am unapologetically pro-player. After all, the players [...]
If I’ve learned anything from the great sports movies of the past it’s that a team of unlikely underdogs is more than capable of winning it all. ‘Major League’, ‘The Bad News Bears’, ‘Rookie of the Year’, ‘Cool Runnings’, ‘The Replacements’, ‘Slap Shots’, ‘The Mighty Ducks’, ‘Caddy Shack’ etc… They all show us that if [...]
After a two-month hiatus, it’s way past time for a Roundtable! I reached out to friends in the blogosphere to answer the following questions: Were you in favor of the David Wright extension? What do you expect him to produce in 2013? These people all do great work and their names are hyperlinked to their [...]
Despite a flurry of off-season moves by teams all over the Majors - some more surprising than others – the Mets are the only team in MLB that has not signed a single free agent to a Major League deal. They committed to franchise player David Wright by signing him to a $138 million contract [...]