With the condensed minor league system going into 2021 and having lost out on the 2020 minor league season, the lowest level of full season baseball should be stacked with talent. Fourteen of the Mets Top 30 Prospects could find themselves starting their 2021 season playing for the St. Lucie Mets. The old saying goes, [...]
Oh my god! Trevor Bauer is going to be on the Dodgers! That’s terrible! The Mets offseason is ruined! Steve Cohen and his money, what a crock of… You know where that sentence was going. Twitter is in an uproar. Same old Mets, etc, etc. Yes, Bauer is going to sunny California and guess what, [...]
In early October, many of the writers here did a project where we conducted the offseason in a vacuum, making a roster for the 2021 Mets. Two things that we didn’t know at the time were that teams would aggressively look to cut payroll whenever possible and that Robinson Cano would be suspended for the [...]
When Daniel Murphy reported to his first minor league team, a coach asked him what position he plays. Murphy’s reply was, “Hitter.” He wasn’t kidding. Murphy came up to the Mets in 2008 and played left field. He worked hard on adjusting to left field on the major league level even though he appeared in [...]
We are about two weeks in to the change of Mets360 becoming a membership site. And it’s exceeded my expectations. We still have an active, civil and intelligent comments section – for which I am truly grateful. But a reminder just came along for one of the reasons why the change took place. A comment [...]
After reading the unimaginable report in The Athletic about Mickey Callaway and his penchant for being a predator, which comes directly on the heels of Jared Porter being dismissed for the exact same barbaric behavior, I can’t help but think there is room to have a dialog about the situation of powerful men in baseball [...]
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If you just look at Marcus Stroman’s Baseball-Reference page quickly, you’ll see that his last line has 11 games and 59.2 IP, which sounds about right for our Covid-shortened 2020. Alas, that was Stroman’s line after he was traded to the Mets in 2019. Stroman began 2020 on the injured list and accrued enough service [...]
It’s February first and in any ordinary year, the enthusiasm for the arrival of pitchers and catchers followed by positional players to Port St. Lucie would be palpable. It is hard to imagine team workouts and Spring Training games under a month away as it still feels like we are in the main part of [...]