Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler and Noah Syndergaard: The New Seaver, Koosman And Gentry?

Your intrepid columnist tends to tread carefully around comparing young pitching staffs. I was there for star-crossed, hopelessly doomed Generation K. Bill Pulsipher, Paul Wilson and Jason Isringhausen were supposed to lead the Mets to the promised land in the mid-90’s. A combination of foul luck and inept training/coaching in the Metsian bushes scuttled that [...]

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Mets Card of the Week: 1973 All Time Home Run Leaders

1973 TOPPS ALL TIME HOME RUN LEADERS Topps started off the 1973 set emphatically, with this all-time home run leaders card. Here at #1 on the checklist was the pyramid of power: Ruth, Aaron, and Mays. Sure, the capstone would shift a year later, when Aaron's home run 715 landed in the waiting hands of [...]

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