Here we go again! As I pointed out in a previous post, it could have done the Mets a lot of good if they had continued to win in September. Perhaps it wasn’t meant to be as the Mets have now dropped five straight games and seven out of their last eight. These next 12 [...]
In their history the Mets have selected a pitcher with a first-round draft pick 18 times and have grabbed a hurler seven more times with a supplemental first-round pick. For every success story like Jon Matlack, you can name three failures (Les Rohr, Randy Sterling, Cliff Speck). If you counter with Dwight Gooden, I respond [...]
1994 SIGNATURE ROOKIES BILL PULSIPHER Ah, the promise this card once represented. First off, it's a genuine autograph numbered to 7,750, which actually seemed pretty cool and limited back in 1994. And of course, it's the left-handed vertex of Generation K, that pitching triforce that was supposed to bring the Mets a decade of pennants [...]
If there’s such a thing as a four-ring circus, the Mets are it. It seems there is always something there to tarnish even their most shiny moments. An extremely moving, nicely planned and executed, nationally-televised ceremony of remembrance turned into a farce in short order. A nice gesture – one that has become somewhat of [...]
From 2005-2008, David Wright posted OPS+ numbers between 133 and 149 each year and was a top 20 MVP candidate all four years, finishing in the top 10 three times. Since then Wright has not been quite as good. In 2009 he had a 124 OPS, last year it was 130 and so far this [...]
Generally, the less we say about Sunday’s extra-inning loss the better. However, I was glad that Val Pascucci got into the game, even if he did not come particularly close to making contact. Pascucci is a guy you cannot help but to root for, despite Wilt Chamberlain’s famous quote that “No one roots for Goliath.” [...]
Bobby Parnell came on in the ninth inning yesterday with a 4-3 lead after the Mets put up four runs in the bottom of the eighth. A leadoff error by David Wright led to two unearned runs and a crushing 5-4 loss. It was the third blown save this month in seven games for Parnell. [...]
"Some of us were a little bit jumpy, not just from the lack of feeling secure, but just because we didn't know if it was the right thing to do or the right place to be," Mike Piazza said. "But to see the way people reacted to it, it was a good feeling to know [...]
Shudder to just think of it a couple of months ago. After a horrible start, Manny Acosta has been lights out lately. Which begs the question: Can Acosta assume the role of closer for the 2012 Mets? It goes without saying that Acosta has thoroughly been the Mets most consistent and reliable arm out of [...]
The Mets lost both games of a doubleheader to the Braves on Thursday. It was the second time this year New York fell in both games of a DH to Atlanta and the third time in four tries this season it has been swept in a twin bill. The Mets are 70-73 (.490) overall this [...]
For roughly five months, the Mets have been plugging along without their ace Johan Santana in the rotation. This much was mostly expected. Sure, the Mets have struggled to find any consistency when it comes to starting pitching, and lord knows they need all the help they can get. Between injuries, Mike Pelfrey's regression, and [...]
In his first full season with the Mets, Justin Turner has become a fan favorite. He’s a gritty ballplayer willing to do whatever it takes for his team to win. Turner has played second base and third base for the Mets here in 2011 and even a part of a game at shortstop. If you’ve [...]