The 1986 team is now a cherished memory among New York Met fans. Many players on that roster still rank high on any all-time favorite Mets list. There was one player who was released though who caused some controversy prior to his departure. That player was none other than George Foster; he wore number 15 [...]
Several different sites are running simulations of the 2020 season. MetsBlog is publishing results from MLB The Show 2020 and the Mets in that simulation are doing quite well, 10 games above .500 after 72 games. Baseball-Reference is doing one and the results are not so great in that one. This one is being done [...]
Back in the day, it was hard to get mainstream reporters to say anything remotely bad about the owners. Mike Vaccaro doesn't let the players off but it's clear who he's giving the largest share of the blame. Of course, no one bears a greater burden of the shame than Rob Manfred, baseball’s loudest carnival [...]
The MLB lockout of 1990 is one of the seven work stoppages between 1972 and 1994 that has been mostly forgotten about. It lasted about a month at the start of spring training, no games were lost, and at the end, MLBPA Executive Director Donald Fehr and Commissioner Fay Vincent expressed feelings of mutual respect [...]
They’re all stars on draft day. With the exception of the Knicks and the 2009 Draft, no matter the sport, no matter the team, you always hear team reps exclaim how they can’t believe so-and-so fell to them, as he was ranked so much higher on their draft board. And since drafting is an inexact [...]
When the Mets made the disastrous trade for Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz, speculation was that the Mariners allowed them to protect two of their minor leaguers from being involved in the trade and that the Mets chose Pete Alonso and Andres Gimenez, their two top prospects closest to the majors. The Mariners ended up [...]
Last month I wrote about the players I thought the Mets might draft in the upcoming amateur draft and now that time has come. You’ll recall that I made a prediction at the end of the piece suggesting that the Mets would select the following players: Round 1 – Pete Crow-Armstrong Round 2 – Kyle [...]
They say that politics make strange bedfellows but hearing the latest rumor on a proposed sale of the Mets by the Wilpon family makes me think sports is right up there in that department. As a Knicks and (long ago) Rangers fan, the idea of the owner of the 76ers and the Devils becoming the [...]
Lenny Dykstra was an excellent ballplayer for the Mets, a clutch hitter who shined in the postseason. However, from all accounts, he is a nasty person. But is he a racist? He was essentially labeled as such by New York Supreme Court Judge Robert Kalish in a recent case brought by Dykstra and his legal [...]
Back in the day we were constantly told how journeyman Tom Hutton did great against Tom Seaver. And Hutton did begin his career against Seaver off strong, going 9-22 against him in his first three years. But by the end of his career, things had turned the opposite way. In his last 11 trips to [...]
Ever since David Wright retired, there has been a feeling that he is the best Mets position player of all time. Looking at Baseball-Reference’s Mets team page, Wright is #1 in At-Bats, WAR, oWAR, Hits, Singles, Doubles, Runs, RBIs, Total Bases, Walks, Extra Base Hits, Runs Created, Sacrifice Flies, Times on Base, Double Plays Grounded [...]
Through the life of the site, there's probably been hundreds of posts around baseball cards. Shoot, the image for yesterday's article was a card. I miss Doug Parker's weekly COTW column. Periodically I try to get him to do it again but he always declines in the politest way possible. Anyway, with all the bad [...]