While the New York Mets were making some splashes this offseason with the additions of Curtis Granderson, Bartolo Colon—and to some degree Chris Young—it’s going to be some of the holdovers from the 2013 squad that may hold the key to success in 2014. One such player that could hold the key as to whether [...]
Pretty much every Mets fan will agree that Omar Minaya failed as the Mets’ GM in trying to make the squad into a perennial winning team. Some of the problems weren’t his fault; regardless, he failed as General Manager. Minaya had many plans internally with prospects which were supposed to work out but most of [...]
Welcome to the doldrums. It’s early January, which means a number of things for the baseball/sports fan. The General Managers’ and Winter Meetings have come and gone. The Holidays are now officially over, the College football championship has been decided – how ‘bout ‘dem ‘Noles?!? -- and the Super Bowl is still four weeks away. [...]
The question above is pretty straight forward, but there are other factors which will either hinder or help Andrew Brown’s case to become a part of the Mets’ right field solution. For starters, the Mets signed Chris Young this off-season with the expressed commitment that he will have substantial playing time. What exactly that playing [...]
Spring training is only a few months away and the odds favor the Mets starting 2014 with Ike Davis at first base, Ruben Tejada at shortstop and no further large acquisitions (via trade or signing). It’s okay. The 2014 Mets are already a better product, on paper, than the 2013 Mets and progress is a [...]
Chris Young and Curtis Granderson strike out a lot. Some worry about the number of strikeouts that they bring to the lineup. This worry is natural – for years strikeouts have been had the reputation of being the worst way to make an out. Bill James observed some time ago that the currency of the [...]
There's been a lot written about the quality of the Mets' homegrown starting pitching, both in the current rotation and on the horizon. Matt Harvey emerged as one of the game's most dominant young starters in 2013 and, though he will miss 2014, is poised to front the rotation for years to come. Blue-chip prospect [...]
2003 MLB SHOWDOWN STEVE TRACHSEL This is the 2003 Steve Trachsel MLB Showdown card. This card is based off of Trachsel’s 2002 pitching performance. The game used a 20 sided dice, player cards, and strategy cards to allow a team to be drafted and a game to be played. There were base cards and there [...]
The New York Mets are anticipating a healthy and solid growth year from Travis d’Arnaud this year. This contribution doesn’t necessarily have to be in the form of HRs or RBIs. A full season with 400 ABs, a decent batting average, some developing rapport with the pitching staff will likely satisfy most expectations. But what [...]
There’s a great story about Hall of Fame manager Walter Alston. The team was traveling on an old bus and the players were complaining mightily about it. Alston stood up and told the team to shut up. Furthermore, if anyone had any problems, they could stop the bus and walk outside and settle things the [...]
In 2011 the Mets were not a very good team. They had finished fourth in the division, didn’t have any kind of consistent pitching, and couldn’t keep their stars healthy. Despite these struggles the Mets had a trait that is needed right now- the ability to score runs. They figured out ways to score runs [...]
Jim Thome has 612 career home runs, and ranks 7th on the All-Time home run list. He has a career average of .276, OBP of .402, and OPS of .956. He also struck out 2,548 times. For better and for worse, this is the kind of hitter Ike Davis needs to be. The suggestion is [...]