Michael Cuddyer and the need for days off

Michael Cuddyer is 2-for-36 in his last 12 games. If you’re 21 year old that gets you sent to the minors. If you’re 36 years old nothing happens more than the manager saying you’ve got to get going. Having a $21 million contract is good in more ways than one. For the season, Cuddyer has [...]

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Mets Minors: Milton Ramos and the Kingsport Mets

Rookie ball is not a league that most fans follow.  Players in this league are generally below the legal drinking age in the United States and face a minimum of 3-5 years of sustained healthy/productive play to reach the majors.  Today I will focus on the Kingsport Mets because I’ve never seen them quite this [...]

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Sandy Alderson’s outfield gambles have not paid off

For the past two offseasons, Sandy Alderson has focused on improving the outfield any way possible. The 2013 season was not a great one for the Mets, and Alderson knew his prospects were on their way to being promoted, creating a need for the Mets to make moves during the offseason, and get more offensive [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 8, Dodgers 0 (7/5/15)

The Mets took the series from the Los Angeles Dodgers today by winning the game 8-0. Quite the offensive showing from the ball club that has struggled to score runs the past couple of weeks. Steven Matz pitched well, going six innings, letting up two hits, no runs, two walks and struck out eight. What [...]

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Chris Flexen and the post 2011 bonus babies of the Mets

What do Chris Flexen, Erik Manoah and Corey Oswalt have in common? They all started games for minor league affiliates of the Mets on Saturday. And they all are pitchers taken in the seventh round or later that the Mets gave overslot bonuses to since MLB instituted the system for the 2012 Draft. For those [...]

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Gut Reaction: Dodgers 4, Mets 3 (7/4/15)

"Saturday. In the park. I think it was the Fourth of July." That blissful song was in my head as I watched the Mets play at Dodgers Stadium a few hours ago. I wasn't expecting much. I figured since Matt Harvey and Zach Grienke were pitching it would be a light offensive affair, and for [...]

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Sandy Alderson has alienated the media and fans

Really, Mets360 readers, what's left to say? It wouldn't be completely honest to say that it was hard to not write some angry tirade about the team in this space. It was pretty easy, actually. That's because I've joined many Mets fans in moving past anger and into something much worse: apathy. This isn't uncommon. [...]

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The dollars and sense of a Jon Niese-Starlin Castro trade

With teams having hundreds of assets (mostly players) and dynamic varying needs it is pretty challenging to say this team should trade this player, or these players, to that team for such and such a player. Yet still we who write about baseball persist in thinking up trades and reasons for why they could work [...]

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