One of Mets360’s favorite blogs, "2 Guys Talking Mets Baseball," is shutting down . We’re all going to miss Mike & Jimmy’s daily argy-bargy, so in tribute, my friend Brian Joura and I started musing on a few last acts, including the final overs of 2014… Charlie Hangley: For all the guff Terry Collins gets, [...]
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With the 2014 season winding down and a few players still making headlines without the team making the playoffs, it's a good time to reflect on the overall performance of this team. More importantly, how individual players affected the team as a whole, specifically, in a bad way. My next few articles will address these [...]
After eight season as the on-field reporter for the New York Mets, Kevin Burkhardt will be leaving SNY following tomorrow’s game against the Washington Nationals, while the Mets wrap up their final road stand of 2014. When the season is over, Burkhardt will be joining the FOX Sports team as a play-by-play announcer for NFL [...]
Mets fans are an odd group of individuals that always seem to disagree, but when it comes to management there seems to be a universal agreement. This agreement is that two of the three levels of upper management are not living up to their expectations. These two levels are the owners (The Wilpons) and the [...]
Word keeps dribbling out that it’s all but official that the Mets will be extending Sandy Alderson’s contract. According to a source, owner and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon will confirm this worst-kept-secret quite soon. There are some among Mets’ fans who despair at this news. They’ll deride the Mets’ GM as “SMS: Small Market [...]
Eric Campbell has shown enormous flexibility on the field for the Mets in 2014. He has played everywhere except center, and catcher, and has a .698 OPS to show for very sporadic playing time. However, just last year his OPS stood at .910 for the entire season, and early this year, he posted a .967 [...]
The Mets have won 12 of their last 18 games, meaning there’s still a chance that my preseason prediction the club would play .700 ball over a 20-game stretch of the season can come true! Who says these games are meaningless? Of course, to do so the Mets will have to beat the Nationals the [...]
Terry Collins is a frustrating manager. He makes decisions that at times can be characterized as puzzling, head-scratching, and downright confusing. Fans have been calling for his head seemingly since the day he was hired, and at times I've joined those choruses, too. But with news of Collins likely sticking around for 2015, and a [...]