During the most difficult stretches that I have faced as a Mets fan, the one constant was my reaction after every loss: "Only the Mets find a new way to lose each night!" It wasn't just me. Many friends and fellow bloggers also mirrored that sentiment. Only the Mets. And with the recent trade of [...]
Back-to-back multi-hit games have Jason Bay’s OPS up to .651 for the season. Earlier I wrote that it was time for the team to move on from Bay. I still believe that’s the direction the Mets need to go but right now Bay should continue to play to see if this is the beginning of [...]
If you haven’t noticed, Lucas Duda is in quite the zone lately. Since July 20, Duda is batting .405 with seven RBI’s while finally delivering on some of his power potential by slugging two home runs in the past week. Are we ready to see the new Lucas Duda? With the highly anticipated departure of Carlos [...]
I’m a fan. I’d like to think I’m a realistic, objective fan, but I know I border on being a fanboy. The Mets are my team and I root for them come hell or low wins. They say love is blind and in the world of the fanboy, it’s also deaf and dumb. I teeter [...]
There have been grumblings over the years about the Mets lack of fight. Once they get to around late August or September, they seem to give up on themselves. It can even be argued if they are losing a game by about five runs, they begin to give up. They come up to the plate [...]
Here at Mets360 we were all huge fans of Carlos Beltran and we thought he deserved a special send off. I asked everyone to chime in with their thoughts and here's what he meant to us. Charlie Hangley - Meet the (new) Mets, meet the (new) Mets… That’s what I was singing in December 2004, [...]
After weeks of speculation, the Mets finally pulled the trigger and traded Carlos Beltran to the San Francisco Giants in exchange for pitching prospect Zack Wheeler. (This, of course, is contingent on the legalities of the deal which should become final by Thursday afternoon.) While we wax nostalgic of the memories Beltran’s made in Queens, [...]
The 2011 Mets do a lot of little things well. They get lots of baserunners, they excel at hitting with two outs and they have even come around to be productive with the bases loaded, a minor miracle compared to the past few years. But one thing they are absolutely dreadful at is getting production [...]
As we rapidly approach 2011’s edition of the dreaded “Trading Deadline” (cue dramatic organ music: DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUUNNNNNH…!), the Mets are in a situation they haven’t been in since at least 2004: being courted. It only makes sense that Carlos Beltran will be traded in-season. The logical, clear-cut, business and baseball reasons have been enumerated since last [...]
1972 TOPPS TRADED JIM FREGOSI Right now everyone’s mind is on the trade deadline so what better time to break out this classic Topps card with TRADED bolded and stamped across the groin of poor Jim Fregosi. This was one of seven cards in the last series of the 1972 set to be so branded. [...]
In his last 13 games, Jason Bay is 5-45 for a .111 AVG. Normally we would dismiss this as a slump. Unfortunately, it’s not so easy to write off the entire tenure of Bay with the Mets. Since joining the club as a free agent following the 2009 season, Bay has a .246/.332/.366 line. That’s [...]
Matt Harvey left Class A St. Lucie with an 8-2 record and a 2.37 ERA before heading to Class AA Binghamton. Darin Gorski has been even better than the 2010 first-rounder as the “ace” of the St. Lucie rotation. Gorski set a club record with his 10th straight win July 18 against Clearwater, surpassing the [...]