If you were to try to convince someone to be a Mets fan right now, it would be awfully hard. The team is in a bit of a rut, as they find themselves either unable to score enough runs to support their pitchers, unable to hold leads late into games, or sometimes even the ugly [...]
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There's been a lot of speculation from baseball writers and wishful thinking from Yankee fans that the Mets will make ace Jacob deGrom available in trade next month. Based on the packages of top rated prospects received for other controllable ace pitchers like Chris Sale and Gerrit Cole in recent years, it's a tempting proposition, [...]
In the early days of baseball, everyone had a cool nickname - Old Hoss Radbourn, Three Finger Mordecai Brown, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Kennesaw Mountain Landis, et al. Modern MLB seems to be lacking in this area and the Mets haven't had any sort of lasting nickname since the 80s teams with Doc Gooden, Nails Dykstra [...]
The Mets erased their recent three-game win streak by losing their third straight in Colorado, 6-4. The biggest problem in this game was not the six, but the four as the Mets grounded into five double plays, managing to squeeze just four runs out of 15 base runners. The Mets jumped out to a quick [...]
A back and forth game between the Colorado Rockies and New York Mets tilted in favor of the Rockies, as they defeated the Mets 10-8 for the second straight game. Seth Lugo, who is usually on his game while on the mound, was not himself against the Rockies. Way too often his bread and butter [...]
Michael Conforto and Brandon Nimmo were both born in March of 1993. Nimmo joined the Mets’ organization first because he went into pro ball directly out of high school while Conforto spent three years in college. However, Conforto made the majors first, due mostly to his strong hitting in the minors but also because Nimmo [...]
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