Yes, that special time of year has arrived. Pitchers, catchers, and those participating in the World Baseball Classic have officially reported to training camp! Now is the point in time where for the next couple of days we’ll be inundated with video clips of veterans strolling into the facilities like an average person walking into [...]
1962 TOPPS ROGER CRAIG My collection has complete sets from the late 90s to 1963, plus 1961. Currently, my chase includes 1960, 1957 and the first series of 1952. Missing is 1962, the first year of the Mets, one that would seem to be a key set for a Mets fan who collects cards. How [...]
The unorthodox poet e e cummings once wrote a poem that begins, “i thank You God for most this amazing day . . .” I think of this poem every year on the first day of Spring Training. As the best three words in the English language are “pitchers and catchers”, the return of baseball [...]
It was an eventful year for Eduardo Escobar, one that continued into the offseason with the pursuit of Carlos Correa to take his job. In his first year with the Mets in 2022, the free-swinging Escobar drew 15 BB in the month of April. After that, he returned to his usual self, finishing with a [...]
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Vin Scully passed away last August at the age of 94, after a baseball broadcasting career with the Dodgers that lasted from 1950-2016. He was a man who was probably the best at his profession of anyone who ever lived. But, what’s this about his Mets legacy? It's true that Scully never was a play-by-play [...]
Biography: In the five mock drafts I ran for the Mets, I had the Mets selecting Blade Tidwell in three of them. In fact, I had him selected with a first round pick in most of these scenarios. Instead, the Mets managed to select both Kevin Parada and Jett Williams before getting Tidwell in the [...]
OK, so it’s not 1980. Kansas City is playing Philadelphia for a championship this evening, but it will have nothing to do with bats or gloves. Back in those heady days of ’80, it took six games for Philly to vanquish KC. This one is a one game, winner-take-all proposition, in a neutral setting, in [...]
The 1966 Dodgers utilized a four-man rotation, one that featured three future Hall of Famers and the fourth, the black sheep, pitched for 18 years and was a two-time 20-game winner. That year, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Claude Osteen and Don Sutton combined to make 154 of the team’s 162 starts. You don’t see rotations [...]
Back before they finally won the World Series, jokes about the Cubs were a thing. My favorite was one attributed to Pete Rose, who allegedly asked, “What did God say to the Cubs? “Don’t win until I come back.” Anyway, if 2016 never happened, we could make some jokes about the Cubs and Jose Quintana. [...]
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