The confetti from the Giants’ Super Bowl victory is scarcely swept up and we’re gearing up for spring training. The annual winter doldrums between the end of football and the beginning of baseball seem shorter than ever, mercifully and will shrink further still if the NFL goes through with its plan to add two more [...]
Wednesday afternoon minor league baseball expert John Sickels dropped by to talk about Mets prospects. John is the senior editor at MinorLeagueBall.com and is the author of The Baseball Prospect Book, an annual look at around 1,200 prospects in the minors. John and I talked about Harvey vs. Wheeler Havens vs. Valdespin Puello vs. Flores [...]
Dear Mr. Fred Wilpon: It’s time – you need to sell the team. I know the truth often smarts, but that doesn’t make it any less accurate. I understand New York Mets baseball has been a part of your life since you purchased that one-percent share back in 1980, half of the shares in 1986 [...]
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with most of the moves that Sandy Alderson and Co. have made this off-season. Not spending a ton of money (which the team didn't even have) on a player like Jose Reyes was a hard decision, but it was the right move. Personally, I loved the Angel Pagan for [...]