What do James Baldwin, Scott Erickson and Geremi Gonzalez all have in common? They all started games for the Mets in the last 10 years. Congratulations if you’ve successfully put those performances out of your mind. That trio combined for 29 ER in 28 IP. And they’re hardly alone for rotten performances on the mound [...]
If there’s one thing that we’ve learned heading into Year Four of the Sandy Alderson-Terry Collins regime, it’s to take their words with a giant boulder of salt. The biggest area where perhaps we weren’t told the exact truth was in the payroll numbers for previous years. But there have been other instances of doublespeak [...]