Last winter, Mets fans were dying for a free agent transaction. On February 1st, 2013, Sandy Alderson gave us one by signing Marlon Byrd to a minor league contract with an invite to Spring Training. The signing resulted in the unleashing of a collective groan among Mets fans. Byrd’s career had been assumed to be [...]
The bottom line is, the Mets beat the Braves, by a score of 4-1. It was a milestone win, number 4,001 in franchise history. It was a third straight victory over Atlanta – a notable achievement in and of itself -- and it earned the Mets their first four-game winning streak since last July. Fans [...]
With MLB's Summer classic less than a week away, there is no better time than the present to evaluate the state of the 2014 New York Mets and their potential second half. While Spring hopes are eternal, most teams see their playoff chances whither and die in the late Summer heat. Year after year, the [...]
Last night against the Atlanta Braves, Jacob deGrom put together arguably his best major league start to date. With that and the return of Dillon Gee to the rotation, deGrom’s future with the Mets is a little bit cloudy. Going into next season, the Mets seem to have more major league ready starting pitching than [...]
With the Chicago Cubs and Oakland Athletics completing a blockbuster trade this past Friday, the Major League Baseball trading season is underway. So far, some key moves have been Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel being sent from the Cubs to the A’s, and Brandon McCarthy being traded to the New York Yankees for Vidal Nuno. [...]
Hope is slowly being restored into the ball club and the Mets’ fans as the last three of the four games were hard won. Yet the possibility of a 2011 Rays happening to the Mets is never far from reality, so the front office will have to make some tough decisions soon. Perhaps trade away [...]
Things we never thought we’d say in April: “This bullpen ain’t too bad.” When the season dawned, the Mets and their fans weren’t sure exactly how the late innings of any given game would be handled. Oh, sure, Bobby Parnell -- with his electric fastball -- was going to be the closer, of course. The [...]