Outside of postseason play and Opening Day, MLB Free Agency is one of the most exciting times of the year for baseball fans. Everyone breaks out their glasses to read the tea leaves of cryptic statements made by general managers, and everyone has their social media alerts turned on so they don’t miss any big [...]
If you’ve been a Mets fan for any amount of time, you’ve no doubt heard about how the team’s been involved in some horrible trades. There is no shortage of articles online with titles like “Top 10 worst trades in Mets history.” It’s tough to lose talent. So, it may comes as a surprise to [...]
My picks went 7-6 last week, bringing my year-long record to 26-23-2. The crazy thing is that the picks for the traditional 1:00 and 4:00 Sunday games are solid and the picks for night games have been dismal. Last week, the column was posted in time to pick the overseas game. That one was a [...]
The Wolfpack have played two games since our last update, winning both of them to up their season record to 3-0. They haven’t played a particularly good team yet, so take that record with a grain of salt. But their last two opponents offered different challenges, one that State found easier to defeat than the [...]
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At the end of the 2018 season, the Mets were in the market for a new GM. They ended up with three finalists for the job. There was the hot-shot youngster in Chaim Bloom, the old pro in Doug Melvin and the wildcard outsider in Brodie Van Wagenen. At the time, my preference was Bloom [...]
Biography: Kevin Parada was born in Pasedena California in 2001. He attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles, California and finished his high school career with a .390 batting average, nine home runs, 66 RBIs, and 24 doubles. Considered to be a top prospect for the 2020 Major League Baseball draft, he went unselected, and [...]
Prior to the 2015 season, my top 10 list had Rafael Montero #1 and Noah Syndergaard #2. That one hasn't worked out very well, as Syndergaard has posted 21.0 fWAR in his career to date while Montero has just a 3.7 mark. Both are free agents this year and Montero just inked a 3/$34.5 million [...]
It was a sister-kisser week, as my picks went 5-5-2, bringing my season ledger to 19-17-2, with best bets going 3-3. The highlight of the week was getting a night game right for the first time, as the Ravens pounded the Saints on Monday night. With that little jinx out of the way, it’s time [...]
Next up in our interview series is friend of the site, John from Albany. I first became aware of John around four years or so ago, when he was writing for Mack's Mets. John brought something completely different to Mack's site. Sure, he wrote about prospects like everyone else there does. But he also contributed [...]
Gus left a comment on the Open Thread that deserves a full response. He wrote: Sometimes, I come here and feel like I’m from outer space. How can anyone not like the Diaz deal? First, the Mets didn’t have a fallback option nor are there any in free agency. Secondly, since when did elite prime [...]
For a guy that many didn’t have a very high opinion of this time last year, Billy Eppler had a very strong year in his first season as the Mets’ GM. But the following quote from Eppler about Francisco Alvarez makes me glad he’s the GM and not the manager. "As we're constituted right now, [...]