We were very good this year. We came out to Citi Field in increasing numbers and spent our hard-earned money on $10 cans of Budweiser and $6 hot dogs. We boosted TV ratings on SNY and purchased every playoff round’s unique $30 t-shirt. Yet instead of getting the speedy leadoff hitter (Denard Span or Dexter [...]
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A really quick hitter today… It’s a pretty special day today. It’s Christmas Eve, the most wonderful time of the year, as it says in the song. For Mets fans, the most wonderful time was October 5 through November 1. That’s when the team breezed through the NL playoffs and came up just a few [...]
It is a positive sign of the sophistication of the modern baseball fan that players are being evaluated these days on their total contributions rather than just their triple slash lines (batting average/home runs/RBIs). Jason Heyward just received a huge contract with the Cubs because rather than being an offensive giant he has a complete [...]
The Mets’ offseason appears to be done now with the signing of Alejandro De Aza to be a platoon center fielder. It seems eminently fair to say that the fan base is less than thrilled with this signing in particular and the offseason in general. As for me, this move is fine in isolation, much [...]
There are those that seriously thought that the Mets might sign Yoenis Cespedes this off season. Silly silly people. Cespedes is looking for six years and perhaps $150 million. There never was a shot in h-e-double hockey sticks that the Wilpons would go for that. Realists set their sights on Gerardo Parra, Will Venable, or [...]
The Mets have filled many holes on their roster this offseason. Asdrubal Cabrera and Neil Walker will take over the middle of the infield, Jerry Blevins has been brought back to help the bullpen, and the Mets are still in search of a centerfielder who will platoon with Juan Lagares. With some new faces being [...]
The Mets playing baseball into November has made it a weird offseason. Combined with it being 70 degrees outside and it certainly seems too early for Christmas. Yet the kids were in a Christmas play, I saw “It’s a Wonderful Life” on the big screen and nearly every radio station is playing Christmas music. Add [...]
We hope you enjoyed our top 50 prospect series, which ended today with David posting prospect number one. This was a group project and the end result was a consensus and not any one individual person’s list. To rectify a mistake from last year, here’s the list in one place: S. MatzL. GuillormeG. YnoaK. CanelonL. [...]
#1 Steven Matz, SP Biography: A local kid from Sony Brook, NY, Matz was born on May 29th, 1991. He’s also a third generation Met fan. Matz was tutored from a young age by Neal Heaton. Heaton, a former Major Leaguer had this to say: "The kid, number one, was lefthanded,'' said Heaton, a left-hander [...]
#2 Dominic Smith, 1B Biography: Born June 15, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, the Mets drafted Smith out of Junipero Serra High School with the 11th overall pick in the 2013 MLB Amateur Draft. Under Sandy Alderson, the Mets wanted to stock their minor league system with position players that were known to hit, and that [...]
One of the outfielders the Mets have had their eye on is Denard Span a good fielding left handed hitter with fine lead off skills. When healthy he can be an above average igniter. The problem is that he has an injury history and 2015, a year in which he just managed 246 at bats, [...]