You could not have grown up a baseball fan in greater New York and not known that Channel 11 belonged to the Yankees and Channel 9 belonged to the Mets. Phil Rizzuto belonged to the Yankees but Ralph Kiner belonged to the Mets. Teamed up with Lindsey Nelson and Bob Murphy, he was with the [...]
Bartolo Colon, Curtis Granderson and now, according to Mike Francesca at WFAN on Wednesday, possibly Stephen Drew? Two signings that were necessary to tie up some loose ends. One is a possible signing that could fill a major hole left by the defection of Jose Reyes at shortstop that has never been filled to this [...]
I'm sorry for the delay in getting this episode up, my internet was down all day yesterday. I present to you (one day late) the chat I had with the very #Elite Jon Presser of The Shea Faithful at the Queens Baseball Convention. If you like Jeff Keppinger, you'll love this episode.
Maybe the long tunnel of snow the Northeast has been living with this year has unusually whetted the appetite of its baseball fans. Every day, there’s a countdown number, correlated to a uniform digit. On various websites yesterday, we saw a plethora of Ron Darling and John Stearns jerseys, telling us there were a mere [...]
Coming into 2013 there was a small concern regarding David Wright, given how poorly his 2012 season had ended. Overall Wright had a great year in ’12 but most of the damage was done in the first half of the season. After having a 1.004 OPS before the All-Star break, Wright had just a .750 [...]
Every good team needs the glue guys, also known as those players on the roster that are flexible about playing time and position. There are several reasons that make this a necessary part of any successful team. The first is that Baseball is a notoriously long season. Players can’t play every day and get injured. [...]
Pitchers and catchers will report to spring training tomorrow, officially marking the beginning of baseball season. But that doesn’t mean the hot stove has gone cold for the year. With names like Nelson Cruz, Ubaldo Jimenez and Ervin Santana still left on the board; there are moves to be made by different teams. The Mets [...]
These past few months have been extremely hard on Mets first baseman Ike Davis. The 26 year old entered last season with high hopes, and slumped for a majority of the season. He got no love from Mets fans, and he became the laughingstock of the team. In total, he hit .205/.336/.334, with nine homeruns, [...]
Last week we looked at starting pitchers for the Mets over the past 10 years. What ended up being a surprise to very few people was how the team on average used 11 different pitchers to start a game in a given season over that time frame. Now let’s turn our attention to the outfield. [...]
Every day moves us closer to the game we love and every team feels the fresh start coming upon them during the early months of the year. In the Mets’ case, a few simple changes could put the team we love into contention. As most of the fans know, the Mets have been slowly piecing [...]
The New York Post broke the story last week that Mets owners Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon and Saul Katz dodged a rather large bullet. Remember that big debt payment that was hanging over their heads? It was due in June? $250 million? Well, they don’t have to pay that in June. They don’t have to [...]
When the Mets signed Taylor Teagarden to a minor league deal in early January, it was a move designed to do two things. First, it added depth to a position prone to wear and tear, and second it provided incentive for both Teagarden and Anthony Recker to compete for the backup catcher duties. Player competition [...]