HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY FROM CARD OF THE WEEK A quick Columbus Day holiday greeting from COTW, in convenient card form... For those of you scoring at home, that would be NINo EspinosA Joe PIgNaTAno Johan SANTAna MARIo RAmirez Nino Espinosa Joe Pignatano Johan Santana Mario Ramirez
Last week we ran a poll at Mets360 asking which player you would least like to see traded. With 404 people voting, here were the results: Ike Davis – 55% David Wright – 28% Daniel Murphy – 6% Ruben Tejada – 6% Lucas Duda – 5% I figured that Davis and Wright would be the [...]
So, we’re approximately a week removed from the end of the Mets' 2011 season and already fans are feasting on the possibilities the 2012 season could bring them. After a full year to see his new team up close, GM Sandy Alderson now has a good handle on what he is dealing with. He now [...]
Last week I wrote about how the pieces on the Mets did not fit and that they needed to find a trading partner, one that had OF or pitching to trade for infielders, which the Mets have a few extra. A team that might make a good trading partner is the Tampa Bay Rays. Before [...]
1984 FLEER UPDATE RON DARLING The mid '80s Mets were a lazy headline writer's dream. First off, it was a headline-worthy bunch: a winning team, chock-full of outsized personalities. And with (nick)names like Doc, Mex, the Kid, Strawberry, and Darling, the headlines pretty much wrote themselves. So if it wasn't “Doc Delivers Gem” it was [...]
As we watch another Metsless playoff – ten years out of the last eleven, if you’re scoring at home – there is little to say about the end of the season that hasn’t already been said. The Mets stunk. There’s little money in the till, so they’re likely to continue to stink. Attendance is down [...]
It’s looking more and more like the Mets are going to make alterations to the outfield dimensions prior to the start of the 2012 season. After three years of data to see how Citi Field plays, it seems like a perfect time to make changes. The Tigers changed the outfield dimensions to Comerica Park after [...]
All Mets fans are hoping the club brings back Jose Reyes for 2012 and the rest of his career. At the same time no one should feel confident about the Mets re-signing their star shortstop. While the Mets have some money to spend this offseason, even with the well-publicized reports of a payroll significantly lower [...]
This time last year one of the big player personnel moves facing the Mets was what to do with Hisanori Takahashi. It was complicated due to Rule 8(i)(2), which made it necessary for the Mets to sign him by Halloween. And if you recall, the Mets had just fired their general manager and had yet [...]