Five reasons Jordany Valdespin should make the roster

The team does not have an elite (or even a good) base stealer (David Wright?  Maybe…) without him.  Jordany Valdespin is a threat to swipe a bag and actually seems to have improved his instincts a little so he’s not 100% ability when running. Fielding is a thing you might want.  Let us pretend that [...]

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Does Matt Den Dekker deserve a roster spot?

With Kirk Nieuwenhuis’ knee injury and his overall ineffectiveness during the second half of 2012, the Mets should look to other options to fill out a center field platoon with Collin Cowgill.  The best and perhaps only other candidate the team has is Matt Den Dekker. After being selected in the fifth round of the [...]

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Comparing the 40th and 50th anniversary Mets teams

Last year the Mets had a nice big celebration for the 50th anniversary of the franchise.  This included not one, but two All-Time Team “lists” being generated.  The first being the 50 Greatest Mets in Team History, and the second was an All-Time Team, selected from various candidates by a panel of Met experts (writers, [...]

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