Whoever is named as the new President of Baseball Operations (quickly please) will anoint a new General Manager (quickly please) and that person will be immediately presented with a complicated to do list. MattyMets presents a cheat sheet so they can hit the ground running and get us back in contention in 2022. New On-Field [...]
When Steve Cohen bought the Mets last year, he was buying a house that was a fixer-upper. In theory, the good news was that in being by far the wealthiest owner in baseball that he would have deep enough pockets to start throwing money at problems to fix them. Right away he made it clear [...]
One of the tough things to accomplish – both as a sports fan and merely navigating life – is to find the balance between embracing new ideas and holding onto virtues from the past. I detest blind adherence to tradition. The worst sports fans are the ones who think that RBIs and AVG are how [...]
It was on my daily stationary bike ride when I saw the bottom line scroll across the bottom of ESPN: “Cardinals Fire Manager Mike Shildt.” My first instant reaction was one of disbelief and shock. How could the St. Louis Cardinals fire their manager after he led them on a 17-game winning streak? Sure, the [...]
Most of us have memories that we treasure. And we also have memories of random things that stood out for one reason or another. One random memory of mine was being at a game where Dave Kingman homered and getting so excited because I just punched his name out on a bunch of All-Star game [...]
My guess is that everyone over the age of 60 reading this knows who Buckminster Fuller is, while everyone under 30 probably doesn’t, unless they were an architecture or possibly an engineering student. Before going into why he’s famous, here’s a quote from him near the end of his life: I m now close to [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. We know all about the injuries the 2021 Mets suffered. But not all injuries are created equal. Obviously, there's the amount of time that they caused the player to miss. But even beyond that, it's how the injury impacted things even [...]
The very first item of our Comment Policy/Terms of Service says this: "The expectation is that everyone knows the sites Baseball-Reference and FanGraphs." There's an incredible amount of information available at both of these sites - most of it free. If you're a baseball fan and you're not going to these sites multiple times a [...]
One of the things you get asked by a casual Met fan when you cover the minor leagues is more generally, “How is the farm system?” This is a loaded question but also a fair one. Casual Met fans don’t have time to deep dive into individual prospects and, while they might know some of [...]
I’m shocked this Johnny Stephenson card of mine hasn’t gotten the COTW treatment before now. This card is a hand-me-down, either from one of my older brothers or from one of their friends. It’s beat up pretty bad, with bowing of the card, soft corners, a bit of paper missing by the catcher's mitt and [...]
The task at hand is to revamp the Mets to prepare for the 2022 season. Spoiler alert. I will propose a few big moves but all in all I imagine my recommendations will be less splashy than some of the other off-season scenarios done by other writers. The first order of business is to hire [...]
In what can hardly be considered a surprise, given the team's performance this past season along with the firing of manager Luis Rojas, almost all of the major league coaching staff was let go or reassigned. The one potential holdover on the major league staff is Jeremy Hefner. It sounds like the new manager will [...]