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The great sell-off will begin in the near future and players like Asdrubal Cabrera, Wilmer Flores, Todd Frazier and Jay Bruce may find themselves joining teams in the playoff hunt while the Mets continue to dive in the standings. While all of that chaos continues at the major league level there is a player, now [...]
Nate Eovaldi? Great. The Mets never hit Nate Eovaldi. -- Me, 1 hour before first pitch I didn't know how right I was. Chris Flexen, Chris Beck, Tyler Bashlor and Paul Sewald conspired to allow the Tampa Bay Rays nine runs. Eovaldi conspired with himself to keep the Mets off the bases. As conspiracies go, [...]
In the beginning of June, the Mets trotted out a lineup without either Yoenis Cespedes or Todd Frazier. Just as damningly, they were using a clearly-injured Jay Bruce and over-the-hill Adrian Gonzalez and Jason Vargas. And the bullpen, which had been so brilliant the first two weeks of the season, had turned back into a [...]
"It's the same old song. But with a different meaning since you've been gone." That Four Tops song used to play on the car radio with my parents singing along in the front seat of our brown Buick. My brother and I sat in the back, dejected, on our way back from another Mets loss [...]
For Wilmer Flores, the New York Mets are the only thing that he has ever known in the United States of America. Well, that and famed 90’s sitcom Friends. The Venezuelan native signed with the team at an age where teens in New Jersey earn their driving permit, 16. He cried on the field when [...]
Jose Bautista crushed a home run on the first pitch he saw in the ninth inning to lift the Mets to a 5-1 win over the Rays Friday night. It was the first ever walk-off homer for Bautista. The Rays loaded the bases with one out in the ninth but could not push the go-ahead [...]
Reds promote Dilson Herrera to majors.
Like Matt Harvey, Devin Mesoraco needed a change of scenery. Both players were first round picks and All Star selections who'd endured a rough couple of seasons due to injuries. The in-season trade made sense for both teams, perhaps even more so in hindsight. Mesoraco was the Cincinnati Reds' 15th pick of the first round [...]