Mets Radar: Tradeable prospects from contending teams

AL East: Boston Red Sox Biggest Need: Closer – Bobby Parnell would be a hard guy to let go for the Mets who have said they would need to be overwhelmed to make a deal.  The prospect I’d expect to be offered is below and I don’t think that would be enough.  If the Red [...]

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Parallel Earth: Mets make play for Willie McCovey

Recently an eBay auction for a “unique” collectable caught my attention.  The opening price was only about 4 bucks for an 8x10 mockup of Willie McCovey’s 1968 Topps baseball card.  Only instead of the Giant road greys, Stretch was seen in vintage Met road greys (which is slightly odd considering the photo on the card [...]

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Was Keith Hernandez right calling Friday a well-managed game?

The Mets lost a tough one in extra innings Friday night against the Pirates. As the game was wrapping up, Keith Hernandez, much like he did earlier in the game, talked about how it was well-managed on both sides. Let’s ignore the Pirates and focus only on the Mets. What exactly was it that made [...]

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Marlon Byrd’s big season, Zack Wheeler’s innings, Ike Davis’ streak

The baseball season is 162 games long and that’s about how many columns I write for the site in a year. Not one of my columns is a game recap, which means there’s an awful lot of opinion pieces. Anyone who gives that many opinions in a year is going to be wrong more than [...]

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Road-Warrior Mets Evoking The Spirit Of ‘73

The Mets went out to San Francisco and swept the Giants for the first time in forever. This is on the heels of taking two-of-three from the Brewers in Milwaukee. That came after a seven-game homestand which saw the team go 3-4. And before that was the thought-to-be-grueling 11-game swing through Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago and [...]

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Eric Young and the story of the 2013 Mets

When I was a boy, I read every sports book I could get my hands on. I read more than my share of disposable biographies on baseball players and rooted for the hero of the story, regardless of what team he played on. It wasn’t unusual for me to read a book about a player [...]

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Extra inning games a telling sign for Mets

After a 16-inning affair Monday night, the Mets finally saw themselves on the winning end of a marathon. It was the fourth time this season that a Mets game has gone into at least the 15th inning, the most in the majors. For a team with so little to cheer for (outside of Harvey and [...]

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