Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson held a news conference with beat reporters Sunday night where he prepped everyone on the idea that Ruben Tejada may very well be the opening day shortstop. A new shortstop is on just about every Mets fan’s wish list this holiday season, but there really isn’t a pressing need for [...]
The Mets are a better team today than they were on the last day of the season. Chris Young and Curtis Granderson add a certain something that has been missing from recent Met outfields. They do a lot to help the Mets, but there is this nagging feeling that the Mets are still missing a [...]
The classic manager - think Bobby Cox, Sparky Anderson or Casey Stengel - is gone. Once these titans of baseball knowledge were the end-all, be-all of a team's success or failure. Not so anymore with General Managers taking a more pronounced role in who plays by designing teams from the top-down. The big money player [...]