There’s always speculation this time of year about what free agents the Mets might sign and what trades we might make. But this year the hot stove is really boiling over. Playing in the World Series and then having arguably your two best hitters hit free agency will do that. Adding to the intrigue is [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! May all of your family and football traditions go off without a hitch. Obviously, here we’re all thankful that the Mets made the World Series and we had baseball into November. In that way, it seems like Thanksgiving is coming mighty early this year. Another thing that makes it odd is that there’s [...]
Hi! Happy Thanksgiving! You haven’t seen me in awhile. A nefarious set of circumstances has kept your intrepid columnist away from the keyboard these past three Thursdays and it’s good to be back. At long last, finally thawed out and recovered from some wintery exercises at Citi Field – among other activities – a post-season [...]
The Mets seem to be notorious for trading away good talent for little in return, not trading for someone who could have made a difference, and keeping players who should be traded too long. While there are a number of players who fit into each one of these categories, I would like to focus on [...]
1998 LEAF ROOKIES & STARS MIKE PIAZZA Sometimes I'm sure it was a hallucination. The idea that Mike Piazza's road from Los Angeles to New York included a week in Miami playing for the Florida Marlins just seems surreal. But fortunately a number of card companies were on hand to capture this mid-1998 madness. Among [...]
As another Hot Stove season dawns upon us, Mets fans go back to a familiar niche: talking about the future and complaining about management. In this specific installment, the topic of the immediate future is at hand. The near certain departure of Daniel Murphy will get mixed reactions from fans, some ranging from hate comments [...]
The Mets went all-in on Michael Cuddyer, signing him to a multi-year deal and surrendering a first-round pick. It was a bad decision at the time and one that only looks worse after watching him up close for a year. With that in mind, check in on our original piece to see what we thought [...]
This is the first entry in our Top 50 prospect list. Four writers contributed to these rankings and what follows is a consensus derived from a fair amount of back and forth among the group. It's not the list any of us would have come up with individually. At the end of the project we'll [...]
We all know the story, and we all remember the headlines. We probably remember the frustration we felt, like the wind was knocked from our guts when we heard that Jenrry Mejia would be suspended a second time, resulting in a 162 game suspension. Although he will not be back until August next season, there [...]
In April of this year, the Mets signed Juan Lagares to a five-year deal with an option. It was quite a change from a year previously when Chris Young was brought in for insurance. The insurance route turned out to be a disaster and the “all eggs in the Lagares basket” didn’t work out exactly [...]
Major league baseball general managers have some things in common with high profile politicians. They both have a public profile used while facing the press or, in the case of politicians, in debates. But they also have to answer to the “money interests.” The politicians have the big donors to court while the GM’s are [...]
Prior to last year, Zack Wheeler was thought of as an essential part of the Mets’ future. The hard-throwing, 4-pitch righty has as much #1 potential as the 2015 stalwarts who pitched us into the World Series. While Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz dominated on the mound and the back pages [...]