Sandy Alderson has said that the team is essentially done adding players to the roster. That makes sense, as the 40-man roster is full and they likely will already have to make a move to add whoever wins the fifth outfield spot to the roster. So, let’s take a minute to redo the offseason, knowing [...]
Mets fans are a diverse lot. However, there is an awful lot regarding the team with which the vast majority of us can agree. We all want owners who will fund a payroll in line with what other large market clubs do, we all love R.A. Dickey and we all want to see Ike Davis [...]
Chris Walendin’s piece on the Mets’ effective payroll got me thinking about the switch from Jose Reyes to Ruben Tejada. There’s a chance that 2011 was Reyes’ career year, only he did it in 586 PA rather than 700+ PA. Reyes accumulated 6.2 fWAR last year. This year, 60 people have registered predictions for Reyes [...]
"I had a good year in 2010 (when he was 15-9 with a 3.66 ERA) and I wanted to take that next step in 2011 and obviously I wasn’t able to do that, by any means. “So this year becomes even more important. I’m a firm believer that you get out of it what you [...]
So it seems that a lot of people doubt the Mets this season. However, their pitching staff is pretty much the same with the addition of (when he was healthy) one of the best pitchers in baseball. So with that, I say the pitching staff has improved. They lost a very solid closer in Francisco [...]
With the offseason coming to a close, the Mets' 2012 Opening Day payroll looks to be settling somewhere in the neighborhood of $90M. Nominally speaking, that's an historic dropoff from last year's Opening Day payroll of roughly $143.2M (per Cot's, adjusting for Taylor Buchholz's roster bonus). There's just no way to paint a $50M+ decline [...]
2012 TOPPS R.A. DICKEY Who needs Punxsatawney Phil? I prefer my predictive tools in pack form. So there I was in Target on February 2, gazing at all manner of configurations of the new 2012 Topps baseball cards. I grabbed a 72-card pack, a couple of racks, and a few wax packs. By my reckoning, [...]
Well, it just gets better and better for the Wilpons, doesn’t it? For an organization that tries its darnedest to put out nothing but positive PR, it sure has a funny way of achieving the exact opposite. The tighter the choke hold on the Mets’ message, the more mangled it becomes. Even what would be [...]
Yesterday I did a podcast with friend of the site, Eric Stashin, better known as the Rotoprofessor. We talked about fantasy baseball, specifically what the 2012 prospects are for individual Mets players. You can listen to the podcast here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mets360/2012/02/06/mets-360-with-the-rotoprofessor Specifically, we talked about Lucas Duda, Ike Davis, David Wright, Ruben Tejada, Andres Torres, Daniel [...]
Now that Rick Ankiel has re-signed with the Nationals, the Mets have to turn their attention elsewhere for a player to compete for their fifth outfielder slot. Now attention will shift to even older veterans like Johnny Damon and Raul Ibanez. Here’s an idea: Quit worrying and just give the job to Mike Baxter. Now, [...]
You can find a lot of stuff on YouTube but I found out this morning you cannot find Glenn Close singing the National Anthem. I want to write about "The Star Spangled Banner" today and this, I thought, was a good way to do this on a Mets-themed blog. Close has sung the anthem at [...]
The big news surrounding the Mets has been the announcement that SNY is going to purchase a bunch of the shares that the Wilpons are offering in the team as a way to raise money. Some see this as nothing more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. But is there anything wrong about taking [...]