The expectation of many was that with MLB requiring two fielders on either side of the second-base bag and banning infielders from playing on the outfield grass that the end result would be more hits. And that has indeed turned out to be true, even if not to the degree that many believed. Last year, [...]
Everyone I know, everywhere I go People need some reason to believe The Mets haven’t given us many reasons to believe, leaving many to be running on empty right about now. It seems like the Mets themselves have their fuel gauge hugging the “E,” too. The list is long and familiar to all of us. [...]
Many of us wanted Francisco Alvarez to be on the Opening Day roster. After seven games, Alvarez gets the call with Omar Narvaez going on the IL. Narvaez has a calf strain and will be sidelined for likely six weeks or more, so this won’t be a case for Alvarez being on the roster for [...]
The unorthodox poet e e cummings once wrote a poem that begins, “i thank You God for most this amazing day . . .” I think of this poem every year on the first day of Spring Training. As the best three words in the English language are “pitchers and catchers”, the return of baseball [...]