Reasons the Mets are better off without an Ian Desmond trade

With the Mets offseason drifting toward a close and a possible Dillon Gee trade lurking, a curveball was thrown at Mets fans. According to Ken Rosenthal, the Mets were apparently in talks with the Washington Nationals and Tampa Bay Rays over a potential three-team deal that included Ian Desmond, Ben Zobrist, and, of course, Noah [...]

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Mets Baseball, Warming Up: A Day At The QBC

It was cold. I mean it was really cold. When your intrepid columnist left the friendly confines of suburban Jersey for an ad hoc trip to Queens for the Second Annual Queens Baseball Conference – the QBC – it was twelve degrees. That’s 12, as in “one-two.” There were important football games looming in the [...]

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Five reasons the Mets should sign Yoan Moncada

In case you’re not into International Free Agents you may have missed that a number of teams have hit the baseball lottery thanks to signing Cuban players.  You don’t need to take my words on faith, you can simply look at Yasiel Puig and Jose Abreu.  Yoan Moncada is the latest in a series of [...]

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The unfortunate case of L.J. Mazzilli

Back in late November Mets360’s own Scott Ferguson wrote about L.J. Mazzilli, who ranked 30th on our list of prospects. In case you haven’t already seen it, you can read that full breakdown here. Mazzilli had a very promising 2014 season in which he posted a .301/.361/.440 line with 44 extra-base hits split evenly between [...]

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