Sunday night Terry Collins was faced with a dilemma: Use Miguel Batista for a second inning or bring in Tim Byrdak to face more than one batter. Collins opted for Batista, who promptly gave up the game-winning home run to Robinson Cano, a lefty. The Yankees had Cano, Mark Teixeira and Nick Swisher due up [...]
"I definitely believe that Dickey's success will lead to more interest in the knuckleball by other professional and even amateur pitchers. However, the interest in the pitch may be short-lived if no one out there can teach it. R.A. worked hard to connect with those who could help him develop his knuckleball. Others may not [...]
Jason Bay is done. I’m going to say that he should probably just retire at this point because he’s not helping anyone by playing baseball. He’s hurting himself and the organization that pays him. Retire, go to Canada and drink some maple syrup. The Mets might be better off with Hairston/Valdespin, Nieuwenhuis and Duda in [...]
After Friday’s game against the Yankees, Daniel Murphy has now sat the last two games as a starter. Some are left wondering if this will be a continuing theme. Well, after going just 8-58 in his last 16 games, Terry Collins is starting to use the hot hand by inserting Jordany Valdespin and Justin Turner [...]
In his first four games of 2012, the Mets scored six runs for Johan Santana. Since then they have tallied 54 runs in his last 10 starts, an unexpected offensive explosion. Poor run support has plagued Santana since he joined the Mets but he has little to complain about in that department recently. And the [...]
Traditional Trade Partners: Teams no longer in the playoff hunt looking to trade more expensive and older players for young/cheap alternatives or prospects. Currently there are 7 teams I’d lump into this group: Minnesota, Seattle, Philadelphia, Houston, Chicago (NL), San Diego and Colorado. I’m just going to take a moment to outline some of the [...]
They get swept, they sweep. They get swept, they sweep. That’s how it’s looked since Friday, June 8, when the Mets walked into Yankee Stadium, fresh off dropping two in Washington, with Johan Santana making his first nerve-wracking appearance since his no-hitter. It didn’t go well. The gopher was well-fed by the time Sunday afternoon [...]
Editor's note - This is a guest post by friend of the site Mack Ade, Founder of Mack's Mets and Draft Eligible. If you're a fan of either the minor leagues or the draft you already know about Mack's work. If you're interested in learning more, you should definitely check out his other writing. I [...]
If you live in the New York area and listen to the “Boomer and Carton Show” on WFAN, then you may know that they like to play a certain sound bite when talking about the Mets’ utility player Jordany Valdespin. That being: “I’m the man right now!” Here is a link for a primer. Those [...]
1995 SUMMIT BRET SABERHAGEN R.A. Dickey is on track to have one of the seminal pitching seasons in Mets' history, one to rank right up there with '69 Seaver, '85 Gooden, and '88 Cone. A lesser man might be tempted by Dickey's initials to call his season-in-progress “rad”-- but you'll get none of that from [...]
Ho-hum. Another R.A. Dickey one-hitter? Must be Monday. I kid…I kid. There’s hardly any other way to express my admiration for the other-worldly performance put on by one Robert Allen Dickey for the New York Metropolitans in the year 2012 A.D. I can’t believe what I’m seeing, so I go back to my default mode: [...]
I am glad that Chris Young is back in the rotation for the Mets; however, I am not quite sure exactly why. Obviously, he is an upgrade on Chris Schwinden. But if you go down and list his pros and cons, there are an awful lot of things to be concerned about with Young. He’s [...]