Labels and ghosts: when will the Mets alter the narrative?

Baseball fans – and particularly Mets fans, I think – are a lot like dogs: if something happens once, it happens all the time, every time. It becomes instant tradition. It seems that’s how the Baseball Gods want it. We Mets fans used to listen to Ralph Kiner on the broadcasts and he would bluntly [...]

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It’s about time: the Mets bring back Old Timers’ Day

Ya see? Speaking up works, even if it did take seven years. The above article was written on the cusp of a season of Mets’ glory, had we but known at the time. It is the nature of the beast to rail at ownership when you’re a Mets fan, even at the start of something [...]

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A look at the Mets’ best draft classes for pitchers

Recently, TexasGus made the following statement in an Open Thread: The Mets got alot of intriguing arms last year, maybe more than ever in one draft. It’s going to be awhile before any of us are completely over the loss of Kumar Rocker. But today, the focus isn’t going to be on Rocker, or any [...]

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Keith Hernandez gets his due, finally

The thing to remember is that he didn’t want to be here. When Keith Hernandez was traded to the Mets on June 15, 1983 – the anti-matter version of the Tom Seaver trade, if you will – he was riding high. As a longtime member of the St. Louis Cardinals, he’d won a batting title, [...]

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Rod Gaspar and his most unusual year

Rod Gaspar was a switch-hitting backup outfielder with the champion 1969 Mets, who managed to leave an outsized legacy. Gaspar was listed as 5’11” and 165 pounds, so with that frame he was not a power hitter. He was a speedy, slick-fielding outfielder whose best tool at the plate was probably his good discipline resulting [...]

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Tylor Megill and assorted Mets pitchers to make at least 18 starts in a season

It’s been an interesting ride so far for Tylor Megill. He went from being a mid-round draft pick to a sleeper prospect to making 18 starts for the Mets last season despite pitching only one game above A-ball prior to 2021. He had some good moments for the Mets last year but the biggest thing [...]

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Revisiting the four Mets trades from the 1994 strike offseason

This week the 2021 MLB Lockout completes its third week, and on Monday officially becomes the fourth-longest work stoppage in the league’s history. Only the 1994-95 strike (232 days), 1981 strike (52 days) and 1990 lockout (32 days) stretched on for longer. When things are said and done, this lockout may end up looking up [...]

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A tracer on Sandy Koufax, Joe Christopher and the Mets

Most of us have memories that we treasure. And we also have memories of random things that stood out for one reason or another. One random memory of mine was being at a game where Dave Kingman homered and getting so excited because I just punched his name out on a bunch of All-Star game [...]

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The impact of a proposed dome for the Brooklyn Dodgers

My guess is that everyone over the age of 60 reading this knows who Buckminster Fuller is, while everyone under 30 probably doesn’t, unless they were an architecture or possibly an engineering student. Before going into why he’s famous, here’s a quote from him near the end of his life: I m now close to [...]

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The Mets’ all-time wRC+ team and chances of a player from 2021 joining the squad

Back in December, in an article about starting J.D. Davis at 3B, the idea was broached that this Mets’ lineup could score 1,000 runs in a season, a feat that’s only been done once in MLB history. Now, two assumptions went into that piece, the first being that there would be a DH in the [...]

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Negro Leagues alumni and the New York Mets

February 13, 1920 is one of the most important days in the history of baseball. It was on that day that Andrew “Rube” Foster met at the YMCA on 18th and Vine St. in Kansas City, Missouri with owners of six other black baseball teams and formed the first Negro National League. At its peak, [...]

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