Things are never as easy as they seem. And that point is driven home more than ever in the uncertainty of our new Covid world. The Mets announced their preliminary summer camp roster and it was hard not to notice the absence of most of their highest-rated prospects. While teenagers like Wander Franco and Jarred [...]
Do you know who the Mets’ player representative to the MLBPA is? Off the top of my head there was a blank but after looking it up and hearing the name, it rang a bell. Give up yet – ok, this is the last sentence before the reveal. The Mets’ player rep is Michael Conforto. [...]
There are things we’d like to be able to do in our job but we don’t for a variety of reasons. Maybe the owners don’t provide us with enough resources. Or maybe our bosses institute policies that are absurd but we’re powerless to change. Sometimes it’s because we’re too lazy to go the extra mile [...]
Major League Baseball's proposed 60-game season is tentatively set to start in less than a month, but it's certainly more than simply a shortened version of the marathon we've grown accustomed to over the last century. Beyond the reduced number of games, there are aspects of the season that, in many ways, will make it [...]
In their 58-year history, the Mets have made 68 first round picks. We've had a few years with no top round pick and a few where we had more than one, hence the big, crooked number. Of those 68 picks, 22 were chosen among the top 10. While the odds of making a smart pick [...]
They’re running a poll on MetsBlog about who the team’s leadoff hitter should be. The good news is that Brandon Nimmo is the overwhelming favorite, garnering over 80% of the votes among the three candidates. The bad news is that Amed Rosario is listed as one of the options. It’s disappointing that in 2020, people [...]
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In 1977, RC Cola had a series of cans with pictures of MLB players on it. Since this came in the prime of my card collecting years – have two complete sets that year, one a factory set and the other a hand collated one – these were part of my collection, too. Now, this [...]
The Mets historical performance defensively has been, in a word, bad. As we have examined the best and worst fielders in Mets history, it was evident identifying bad players was a little easier than identifying outstanding players. At second base, the answer was largely “no one.” It is never easy to explain *why* the Mets [...]
In Friday’s column about the unfairness of Interleague play, longtime commenter Name asked if it was fair that the Marlins had to oppose Jacob deGrom six times while the Phillies only had to face the league’s best pitcher once. To me, that was almost apples and oranges because it’s virtually impossible for the way the [...]
Gripe as you must about the current state of Major League Baseball, it never hurts to take a look back to 10 years ago and reflect on some of the things that we saw. Awful contracts, being burned by Bernie Madoff, and watching prime David Wright play for a mostly non-competitive team. Oddly enough, this [...]
If you’ve been reading the site for a while, you know my stance on Interleague play. To summarize, it’s unfair to the Mets because while teams they’re battling for a playoff spot get to play a pushover – last year the 93-win Nationals got to play the 54-108 Orioles, while the 91-win Cardinals got to [...]