Antonio Bastardo brings low leverage game to Queens

Rumors everywhere have it that the Mets have signed free agent reliever Antonio Bastardo to a two-year, $12 million deal. Everyone who was criticizing that the Mets only signed Jerry Blevins to a one-year deal and didn't pay enough to get him should be satisfied with this move. Bastardo had a very nice year in [...]

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Mets Card of the Week: Baseball goes to the movies

[Editor's Note: The Card of the Week fact-checking team is unavailable this week, suffering as they are from collective nervous exhaustion brought on by Card of the Week's consistently tenuous grasp of the very facts that they are sworn to uphold. As a result, we cannot vouch for the complete accuracy of this week's installment.] [...]

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Top prospect Eudor Garcia busted for PEDs

In unfortunate news, Met prospect, Eudor Garcia was suspended 80 games for PEDs. Garcia had surged up the rankings on the power of a tremendous leap in production. These numbers are now brought into question. He hit .296 with 9 home runs and 59 RBIs in 2015 with Class A Savannah last season. He was [...]

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Do the 2016 Mets have sufficient depth?

It is a given that the New York Mets will go in 2016 as far as its young gifted starting staff will take them. If we somehow knew that the combination of Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Stephen Matz, Zack Wheeler (hoping for a June or July return), and Bartolo Colon (not so young [...]

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