With MLB ground to a halt, and no trips to go to Spring Training, I spent some of my weekend going to some local antique stores. It’s a great place to find old magazines, usually LOOK, TIME, SPORT and the like. I happened to stumble across a bin of old Baseball Digests. I have been [...]
MLBPA appears to be unified in their cause. A threat of an in-season strike by the players would give more leverage to the players at the negotiating table. The owners impose a lockout to avoid a strike. Many fans say it's a fight between millionaires versus billionaires. That isn’t necessarily true. The majority of players [...]
When the Mets signed catcher James McCann before the 2021 season it was, generally, viewed through the following lenses: They really needed a starting catcher, and he seemingly fit the bill. Their chances of signing J.T. Realmuto seemed slim. The lineup appeared strong regardless of who sat behind the plate. The deal allowed the flexibility [...]
I feel sorry for Mark Canha. His profile – low AVG, good-to-high OBP and questionable SLG – is one bound to make him underrated by the average fan. He’s the kind of guy who can hit .225 and be valuable if the OBP and SLG are there. He’s also the guy who can hit .225 [...]
My guess is that when Topps came up with their Heritage brand, they likely had someone like me in mind as their target audience. And maybe that just rubs me the wrong way. I would like nothing better than to go to the store and buy a pack of 1970 Topps baseball cards. But I’ve [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. We all do dumb things. The greybeards among us are fortunate that the internet wasn't around to capture our dumb things for the whole world to see. According to SNY, Marcus Stroman tweeted the following but has since deleted it. "Just [...]
When the Mets drafted David Wright, he was a high school shortstop. The Mets moved him to third base immediately and it’s now hard to believe he ever would have made it as a full-time shortstop. Chalk one up for the club all the way around. They were able to identify a talented player and [...]
With increasingly frequent meetings between MLB and the MLBPA not bearing much fruit toward a new Collective Bargaining Agreement and an end to the owner-imposed lockout, it is becoming increasingly likely that the start of the 2022 MLB season will be delayed. However, once an agreement is reached and major league spring training opens, there [...]
At some point the lockout will end and an abbreviated Spring Training will begin. The assumption of many is that Robinson Cano will be auditioning for a spot on the team and they will be watching his performance closely. Wouldn’t it be something if Buck Showalter after a Grapefruit Leage game said this – “Cano [...]
Terry Collins is by far the best manager that the New York Mets have had in the past decade. Taking a struggling team and developing the clubhouse mindset into a team that expected to be in contention each season, Collins was only second manager to lead the Mets into back to back post-season appearances. The [...]
This time last year, everyone was excited about the acquisition of Carlos Carrasco as part of the Francisco Lindor deal. The Mets desperately needed starting pitching and Carrasco had battled back from his cancer scare and looked just as good as ever. Unfortunately, Carrasco was injured during Spring Training and it seemingly took forever for [...]
If you followed baseball in the 1970s, you know who Gene Clines was. He showed a lot of promise his first few years in the majors with the Pirates and while he never developed into even a full-time player, he played in the majors for parts of 10 seasons. Not only that, he stayed in [...]