K-Rod is gone, but there’s another closer shining in the New York Mets’ system. Lefthander Josh Edgin has been outstanding at two Class A stops, combining for 20 saves and a 0.93 ERA. Edgin didn’t enter the season as a top prospect, and seldom do 24-year-old closers at Class A become major league contributors down [...]
The trade deadline is fast approaching and it seems the only move that has been made to have impacted the team was the Francisco Rodriguez trade. We all know that trade needed to be made solely on a financial basis. There are other trades that can help them financially, but they will hurt the team. [...]
With Jose Reyes and David Wright both seemingly on the verge of returning from the disabled list, the Mets are inching closer to having their full offensive team available. When those stars return the obvious plan is to have Justin Turner and Ruben Tejada battle it out for the starting job at second base. But [...]
If you polled 10 Mets fans, all 10 would say that Nick Evans has gotten the short end of the stick in his career with New York. This explains why everyone was so happy that Evans delivered an RBI triple in Saturday’s 11-2 rout of the Phillies. We want to see Evans get a chance [...]
With the Mets’ 7-2 loss to the Phillies on Friday night, combined with the Braves win over the Nationals, the Mets are now eight and half games back of the wild card race. The window to remain a competitive club is narrowing with each game. Friday’s loss was a grim reminder of how much the [...]
Last year at the All-Star break the Mets were 48-40 and in second place in the NL East. They were a game behind the Dodgers in the Wild Card race. But they started the second half of the season going 2-9 and never recovered. This year the picture at the All-Star break is not nearly [...]
A Billy Joel lyric never seemed so apt. Tomorrow night (7/15), the season re-starts with a half-clean slate. This is when baseball takes on a different hue: more serious, less romantic, more about action than speculation. The stakes get raised in the second half, and the surprises of April, May and June are usually worn [...]
One of the reasons I started blogging about the Mets is that I thought what passed for “wisdom” or “knowledge” from mainstream media writers was essentially garbage. There were many Mets columnists whose work in the papers made me cringe. Wallace Matthews, Mike Lupica and Mark Hale are three that jump immediately to mind. Another [...]
We’re all thinking it. With the Mets trading combustible closer Francisco Rodriguez (K-Rod) on Wednesday to the Milwaukee Brewers in an obvious salary dump, Mets’ fans are probably waiting for the other shoe to drop. The shoe in this case would be Carlos Beltran. So, are the Mets on the verge of trading their All-Star [...]
Early this morning the Mets got out from a big 2012 contractual obligation by trading Francisco Rodriguez and cash to the Milwaukee Brewers for two players to be named later. The cash they sent will essentially cover the remainder of Rodriguez’ 2011 contract. The Brewers will be responsible for either Rodriguez’ 2012 salary or his [...]
We’ve reached the halfway point of the 2011 New York Metropolitans’ baseball season, chronologically, if not statistically. The Mets sent two players to the game, one of which will play – a commendable showing for a team which had been predicted to act as the spittoon of the NL East and began the year five [...]
In his last 10 games, 2B Josh Satin is batting .406/.537/.781 over 40 PA. For the season, Satin has a .967 OPS in 85 games for Double-A Binghamton. Satin earned a callup to Binghamton last year and in 332 PA for the B-Mets he had a .308/.395/.472 line. He has bettered all three of his [...]