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Kodai Senga was supposed to start for the Mets Saturday night but instead he was sidelined with a sore right index finger. The Mets were forced to scramble and chose reliever John Curtiss to start the game in Senga's place. Curtiss hurled a shutout frame and ran his scoreless streak in Grapefruit League play to [...]
As snow falls on my backyard, spring is here. There are actual baseball games on the TV, cablecast live from points south and west. Think baseball is floundering? ESPN reported the Cardinals/Mets exhibition game two weeks ago garnered their highest ratings ever for a spring training tilt. The World Baseball Classic is in full swing, [...]
Mark Canha and Eduardo Escobar are linked together in my mind. The two veterans both came to the Mets prior to the 2022 season on two-year contracts, put up similar seasons, with a 2.8 fWAR for Canha and a 2.3 mark for Escobar and both had seasons propped up by a six-week hot streak. Canha’s [...]
1988 TOPPS KEITH HERNANDEZ Earlier this week, I finally finished putting my Topps doubles and cards from other manufacturers of players who made the Hall of Fame into plastic sheets and binders. The final (current) tally is 134 players and managers and 1,516 cards. It’s a project that has been on the to-do list for [...]
After ending the season on a down note, losing back-to-back games and dropping four of their final seven contests, there was some concern about North Carolina State maybe blowing its NCAA tournament chances. But hopefully that “sky is falling” concern was put to rest with an emphatic 97-77 dismantling of the Virginia Tech Hokies in [...]
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If you subscribe to The Athletic, you know that the Mets are blessed with two outstanding beat writers – Tim Britton and Will Sammon. Those two combined on a column today where they each contributed their thoughts to various questions. Unlike the late, great 2 Guys Talking Mets Baseball, they did not interact with each [...]
Inarguably, the worst trade in New York Mets history grew out of the Amazin’s need for more offense out of their third baseman and their ability to trade from the strength of surplus young starting pitching. It was the winter of 1971. Then General Manager Bob Scheffing surveyed the trade market and set his sights [...]
After four-plus months without Mets baseball, it’s a welcome sight to see Grapefruit League games. By now we know all of the pratfalls about Spring Training, where all of the players are in the best shape of their life and that everyone is working on a new pitch or a new approach in the box. [...]
2018 TOPPS HERITAGE MARK VIENTOS Mark Vientos hit two homers in a Spring Training game against the Marlins today, which made me search for one of his cards. This Heritage card jumped out to me, with its ultra-tight shot of Vientos. But what really caught my eye was the double yellow combination. The big circle [...]
There’s been a lot of worry about the age of the Mets’ rotation, especially with newly acquired Justin Verlander getting ready to embark on his age-40 season. But while it’s a good idea to avoid hitters this age – and frankly quite a few years earlier than that – there’s no reason to fret about [...]