It can’t be denied that the most consistent offensive weapon for the 2016 New York Mets was Yoenis Cespedes. The player batted .280, banged out 31 home runs, and put up an OPS of 884 which is impressive anywhere but doubly so in the pitcher friendly environment of Citi Field. Bloggers, newspersons, and callers to [...]
The Mets 2016 season is over, but there's still baseball on TV. It may be a small consolation for most of you reading this, but at least for this writer, baseball is better than the alternative. Pathetically, this guy would rather watch a local Varsity game than the Super Bowl. There are four really good [...]
Some interesting numbers on Tommy John ligament replacement surgery. The good news is that surgery is no longer a given for those with partial tears. The bad news is that the recovery time is not going down for those who do need the surgery. http://www.hardballtimes.com/some-staggering-facts-about-tommy-john-surgeries/
I know…I know… It’s been a week, now, and the last thing we need is yet another post-mortem on the Mets’ 2016 season. The wound from their loss in the Wild Card “Series” is still fresh and there are other goings-on in the wide, wide world of baseball. The Toronto Blue Jays stole the Mets’ [...]
Everyone reading this has probably watched at least 1,000 MLB games, most of them involving the Mets. One of the reasons we watch is to see something we’ve never seen before, especially if it involves our team. If you’re a greybeard, you probably remember the thrill of seeing Dave Kingman, a true home run threat. [...]
We've now had a little bit of time to digest the wild card loss to the Giants, and the end of another pretty good season in Queens. Any time the Mets make the playoffs—particularly while the Yankees miss out—feels like a fun year once the disappointment of elimination starts to pass. But here I want [...]
2016 is a year where the Mets overachieved. After a painful loss to the Giants, it is time to look forward to 2017. Injuries decimated the team in 2016. Only time will tell which players can successfully come back and make contributions to the 2017 team. The 2016 Mets relied on the long ball to [...]
Completing the series, what follows is a prediction for the AAA affiliate of the New York Mets and I’m more than sure that folks will not agree with me. Before you begin burning my effigy and throwing bricks through my window you need to understand that this isn’t necessarily what I want the Mets to [...]
For years, all we heard about was the trouble the Mets had finding a third baseman. Then Howard Johnson (807 games) and David Wright (1,571) showed up and we don’t hear much about that any more. Still, 162 people have played at least one game at third base in franchise history. What doesn’t get talked [...]
OK, we’ve done the Kumbaya thing about the 2016 Mets, the plucky group that overcame obstacles to make the playoffs. Now it’s time to turn our thoughts to the 2017 team and instead of being the scrappy team that beats the odds, we want to assemble a team that dominates the opposition and waltzes into [...]
Right now we all have an open wound from the sting of our disappointing Wilcard game loss. But given a little time and perspective, we will all look back on this season fondly. Coming off a 2015 World Series appearance and armed with the best young pitching staff in baseball, plus the return of Yoenis [...]
For those not quite ready to say goodbye