Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. The Athletic just released the answers to their Mets survey, with nearly 3,000 responses. Here are a few of the results: Which of the following Mets prospects are you most OK with trading? Khalil Lee - 35.5% Ronny Mauricio - 31.7% [...]
Today we kick off our 10th year of doing individual projections for the top players on the Mets. My hope is that everyone will weigh in on what they think the player will do in 2022. You’ll have more credibility later on about how you “knew” what Player X was going to do this season [...]
When CBS sold the Yankees, it was to a group of 12 people, including George Steinbrenner. One of the minority partners was John McMullen, who later famously said, “There’s nothing in life quite so limited as being a limited partner of George Steinbrenner.” I thought of that quote when reading that the Mets were making [...]
There are numerous issues that players and owners have a difference of opinion and that’s why we’re in the midst of a lockout. But they all boil down to one thing at the end, money. One thing that doesn’t immediately sound like it’s about money is the player’s goal of making more teams competitive. But [...]
After a long day at work on Thursday, and a drubbing to my Seton Hall Pirates brought on by a lowly DePaul squad, I needed something to take my mind off of the day. I turned to my biggest vice, the thing that is always able to pull me away from it all better than [...]
The thing to remember is that he didn’t want to be here. When Keith Hernandez was traded to the Mets on June 15, 1983 – the anti-matter version of the Tom Seaver trade, if you will – he was riding high. As a longtime member of the St. Louis Cardinals, he’d won a batting title, [...]
The first two decades of the Mets’ existence is my favorite era of Topps cards. Sure, it would be nice to make 3-4 trades and get some classic 50s and 1961 sets in there, but few things in life are perfect. The first set I’d trade would be the 1962 one, a set so ugly [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. So, The Athletic ran a survey asking readers what they thought on a bunch of different topics on the Mets. Among their questions was asking the reader to grade the free agent signings, with the following choices: A B+/A- B C+/B- C [...]
Rod Gaspar was a switch-hitting backup outfielder with the champion 1969 Mets, who managed to leave an outsized legacy. Gaspar was listed as 5’11” and 165 pounds, so with that frame he was not a power hitter. He was a speedy, slick-fielding outfielder whose best tool at the plate was probably his good discipline resulting [...]
In exciting International Free Agent moves, Elian Soto (younger brother of Juan Soto) has a commitment to join the Mets in the upcoming IFA period. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made some waves about this stating that Elian (at 15) is hitting the ball harder than his older brother did at the same age. This is obviously [...]
In 2019, Brandon Nimmo injured his neck. He tried to play thru the injury but ultimately went on the then-called DL and missed three months. The Mets used several different players in center field but the guy who got the most playing time was Juan Lagares. In 285 PA that season, Lagares put up a [...]
“And so begins the task I have dreaded the coming of For so long” One of my beliefs is that you have to hold yourself accountable for what you say and do. Each year right before the start of the season, I make about 15 predictions for the coming year. Not once have more than [...]