On Tuesday afternoon, outgoing Commissioner Bud Selig paid Citi Field a visit, and like his other stops on the farewell tour, he took questions from reporters. Friend of the site Howard Megdal got things off to a rollicking start, not beating around the bush when he asked the following: “In 2011, when denying the Fox [...]
"I don't frankly think the last 12 games have a lot to do with evaluating Terry," Alderson said before his team's 151st game of the season. "I think we've played well to this point and through the first half of September, even the latter part of August. I think the team has responded pretty well." [...]
Generally, Larry Brooks is not my favorite baseball columnist. But in today's article he hit the nail on the head. Even though he very likely did not write the headline, that was perfect, too. In an article entitled, "Terry Collins complicating the Mets' simplest problem," Brooks wrote: Really, it is neither a difficult nor controversial [...]
"While we were active in conversations—although not super active—we didn’t make any deals, I think going in we didn’t intend to be sellers and we didn’t intend to be buyers necessarily. We were looking at the market and what it would dictate. We set a price on some of our players, and under the circumstances [...]
Burdick hit .325 with 46 walks, including 20 intentional, for the Spartans (23-11) this season. He had 25 RBIs and a .600 on-base percentage.
When news broke that the Mets drafted Oregon State OF Michael Conforto with their 10th overall pick last night, I happened to be on a bus filled with college baseball players, so I asked what they thought of him. "The dude's legit," said a coach. "He's going to be very good." "He's the best hitter [...]
Irony - a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
After a dramatic 11th inning victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, Terry Collins told reporters that he was close to making Jeurys Familia the closer. Familia would already be the fourth different option used by the Mets after Bobby Parnell, Jose Valverde and Kyle Farnsworth. “Three days in a row, pounding the strike zone, [...]
From the New York Post: “It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime,” Wilson writes. “I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets organization. They seemed to have no identity. “My concern was that the character of the players they were looking for superseded the talent they brought to [...]
Fourth year on the job for Alderson.
Hey, I hear the HR derby was in NY - did anyone watch it?
“When you’re pitching in Las Vegas, due to the ballpark, sometimes you overthrow just because you don’t want to get hit,” manager Terry Collins said before the Mets’ 7-6 loss to the Nationals Saturday at Citi Field. “Sometimes guys in those parks pitch away from contact because contact means danger in those little parks. The [...]
