Fox Sports is reporting that the Mets and Blue Jays have agreed to a deal that will send R.A. Dickey to Toronto, pending the Blue Jays being able to work out an extension with the knuckleball pitcher. Toronto has 72 hours, or until 2:00 PM Tuesday to sign Dickey. Earlier reports had Dickey as part [...]
Saturday was surreal. It was weird enough to refresh Mets Blog and Twitter every 10 minutes for 12 hours but even stranger was the column posted by the New York Post’s Ken Davidoff, which to the average reader amounted to nothing more than a hatchet job on R.A. Dickey. If on Friday you asked me [...]
Surely all of you have heard the news of Josh Hamilton signing a lucrative five-year deal (worth approximately $125 million) with the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday. It's a move that is sending shock waves through the league.The Angels are making a strong push to make a run at the World Series while also tossing [...]
A “New York minute” is a phrase to describe an incredibly brief moment of time. Or as Johnny Carson once explained, it's the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you honking his horn. Right now, Mets fans are wondering why Sandy Alderson doesn’t fix all of the team’s problems [...]
The Mets hold an annual Christmas party for charity, where they invite both players and members of the media. This is usually a win-win-win situation. Obviously, the charities win. The Mets win by getting publicity in late December that they otherwise would not receive. And the fans win because reporters get access to players and [...]
It was just about a full year ago that I envisioned better things on the horizon for the Mets. I thought the team’s finances would stabilize. I thought Sandy Alderson would be somewhat freer to make marked improvements to the product on the field. I thought the kids ripening on the farms would be ready [...]
Throwback Thursday! When everyone's talking about the Mets' six-man rotation, here's a piece I wrote in late 2012 advocating for the return of the four-man rotation.
I’ve typically been a Sandy Alderson supporter. He inherited a series of poor contracts and a team owned by ownership that lacked the ability to invest in the team’s future and I’ve given him leeway. He managed to trade a Carlos Beltran rental for Zack Wheeler which was a coup but since that he’s not [...]
Lost amid the news of David Wright re-signing with the Mets and the team publicly shopping R.A. Dickey harder than any player in recent memory was this nugget tweeted by Joel Sherman of the New York Post: The Mets are kicking the tires on Manny Parra. If you don’t recognize the name, there are two [...]
One of the hot-button topics at the Winter Meetings in Nashville this week is what are the Mets going to do with reigning NL Cy Young award-winner R.A. Dickey? Do the Mets shop him at his highest value while trying to land a bumper crop of prospects? Or do the Mets negotiate a reasonable two-year [...]
During the offseason there has been a lot of talk about the Mets and Blue Jays making a deal. On the surface it makes sense, as the Mets need outfielders and a catcher while the Blue Jays are looking for a front-end starter. The two teams seem to match up pretty well. For me the [...]
The 2012 Winter Meetings are in mid-meeting form. R.A. Dickey is going to be traded. No, wait, he’s going to be extended. Jonathon Niese is the one who will move. No, wait, the return won’t be big enough so he’s staying put. Mets are interested in John Lannan. No, wait, he’ll want too much money. [...]