Mets Sports Illustrated covers throughout the years

In honor of Matt Harvey being the regional cover boy of Sports Illustrated last week, it might be a fun trip into the TARDIS/Delorean/hot tub/time travel device of your choice…or even SI’s online archives, and chronicle Met covers through the years. We start off with March 5th, 1962 and a rather dour Casey Stengel in [...]

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Daniel Murphy and the hot streak fallacy

Daniel Murphy is on fire. Coming into Sunday’s matchup with the Cubs, Murphy was riding a 7 game hitting streak during which time he is hitting .500 (14-28) with six extra base hits, five runs scored, and four RBIs.  This recent offensive explosion has brought his triple slash to .301/.337/.455. On Sunday, Terry Collins decided [...]

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Mets Minors: Zach Lutz leads hitters starting to hit

This was a tough week to choose a star.  Instead it’s a group of names that some know and some don’t. Zach Lutz – Before the season Lutz looked like the best hitter in the Met’s upper minors but after being sent to the minors (because he doesn’t play a useful position) Lutz was mired [...]

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