“All I’ll say is we have higher expectations than we’ve had in the past.” -- Sandy Alderson, February 2014 Saturday’s night loss made it mathematically impossible for the Mets to win 90 games. If you recall, back in February, Alderson allegedly told team executives that the Mets should challenge for that many wins this season. [...]
Over 160 career ABs, Matt den Dekker has shown that he is most likely not going to be the Mets everyday LF for the foreseeable future. We all know he can play the position, but he can’t hit. His K rate has decreased in his current stint on the Mets, but he isn’t hitting for [...]
If you listen to people around the baseball world there is a general consensus. The Mets could be contenders in 2015 and all it will take is money. Sure, Sandy Alderson could get creative. He could trade some of the young talent and find ways of improving the anemic offense without spending money, but why [...]
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Thursday night the Mets reached down to Double-A to promote Dilson Herrera as the corresponding move to placing Daniel Murphy on the disabled list. This move is bold, completely unexpected and terrific news for those of us who want to get better sooner rather than later. In the past, we might have expected the Mets [...]
Currently the Mets outfield is made up of two players in the teams long term plans, Curtis Granderson and Juan Lagares. The third outfield position is manned by a make it or break it platoon of Matt den Dekker and Eric Campbell. The issue with this arrangement is that the Mets lack offense and they [...]
2014 was year where the Mets wanted to fix a major issue that has crippled the team in the past: the bullpen. An influx of young, power arms like Vic Black, Josh Edgin, Jenrry Mejia and Jeurys Familia were going to re-establish the Mets as a team with a quality bullpen. Those guys went above [...]
Your intrepid columnist is not ashamed to admit he’s a bit of a TV sitcom junkie. He’s seen ‘em come and seen ‘em go. All In The Family, M*A*S*H, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, both Bob Newhart shows…the list goes on. One of the best, though, is about to have the [...]
The New York Mets have played their way out of contention. This isn't news. The only things that we, as fans, have to hold onto are the memories of great moments this season and personal accolades that players have left to strive to obtain. Four examples of these are Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Daniel Murphy [...]