Jarred Kelenic and Sandy Alderson’s draft history

If you follow amateur baseball at all, you know more about the players selected in the draft than me. The best I can do is tell you that a guy who hit a triple and a homer for the Copperheads was taken by the Giants – in the 15th round. But hopefully what I’m lacking [...]

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How the New York Mets, Cheyenne’s Nimmo came to a deal

I was looking to see if I could find the scout responsible for selecting Brandon Nimmo and came across this account of how it went down to the wire to get him signed. Chad MacDonald only requested one thing of Brandon Nimmo when the two met one week before the signing deadline. "I said, ‘Whatever [...]

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Mickey Callaway’s spin on Terry Collins’ paint by numbers approach

People who complain about three true outcome baseball should have to watch Wednesday’s Mets-Orioles game on a loop. Think walks, strikeouts and home runs are boring? Try watching a never-ending supply of groundouts and lazy fly balls. Oh well, to each his own. But as yawnstipating as yesterday’s game was, it did have one moment [...]

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The Mets’ 2018 season is done. Now what?

Everybody knows the old joke about a baseball team being so being so bad, it's eliminated from contention by Memorial Day. This year’s Mets have become that old joke. The level of ineptitude on display the past eight-and-a-half weeks truly defies description. Last year was bad, we know this, but you could point to a [...]

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