It was cold. I mean it was really cold. When your intrepid columnist left the friendly confines of suburban Jersey for an ad hoc trip to Queens for the Second Annual Queens Baseball Conference – the QBC – it was twelve degrees. That’s 12, as in “one-two.” There were important football games looming in the [...]

In case you’re not into International Free Agents you may have missed that a number of teams have hit the baseball lottery thanks to signing Cuban players.  You don’t need to take my words on faith, you can simply look at Yasiel Puig and Jose Abreu.  Yoan Moncada is the latest in a series of [...]

Back in late November Mets360’s own Scott Ferguson wrote about L.J. Mazzilli, who ranked 30th on our list of prospects. In case you haven’t already seen it, you can read that full breakdown here. Mazzilli had a very promising 2014 season in which he posted a .301/.361/.440 line with 44 extra-base hits split evenly between [...]

2014 was the year blue and orange were supposed to begin supplanting pinstripes across New York. It didn’t happen. Larger expectations are on the horizon for 2015 with a potentially devastating starting pitching staff and bullpen developing. In terms of a legitimate playoff run, most positions are adequately staffed. But shortstop remains the no. 1 [...]

There were reports of the Mets almost acquiring the Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond, but at a hefty cost. He only has one year left on his contract before he hits free agency, which was probably one of the biggest factors in Alderson not going through with the trade. Desmond would be an upgrade over Wilmer [...]

Here are some news and notes to get you caught up on all the recent happenings in Mets land. You may know that Ben Zobrist was traded to the Oakland Athletics this past weekend, but according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, there were discussions of a potential three-way deal between the Mets, Rays and [...]

With Spring Training arriving in a few weeks, the New York Mets will have to make several decisions based on Spring Training performances. Will Matt den Dekker or Kirk Nieuwenhuis be serving as a back-up outfielder? Will Curtis Granderson, Juan Lagares or Daniel Murphy be the leadoff hitter? Will Jeurys Familia, Jenrry Mejia or Bobby [...]

Earlier this offseason, four writers at various points collaborated on a prospect list for the Mets that went 50 deep. Click here if you’re curious about those rankings. My participation was on the lower part of the list, knowing that this top 10 list you’re about to read would be coming out. This list is [...]

With Mike Piazza once again being snubbed for the Hall of Fame, garnering 69.9% of the vote from the BBWAA, people have taken to sharing their outrage that the “greatest hitting catcher of all time” isn’t in the Hall. But why is it that we need that caveat of hitting catcher when we talk about [...]

Terry Collins has managed the 81st most games in the history of major league baseball.  All told he has managed for 10 years and compiled a record of 748-778, a .490 winning percentage.  He has managed the Mets since 2011.  Over those four seasons his records sits at 304-344, a .469 winning percentage. Collins had [...]

In Julian McCarthy’s recent article, Assessing the threat level of every National League wild-card contender, uber-commenter Chris F. raised the point about the number of question marks on the 2015 Mets. He then closed his comment with a reference to Tumblin’ Dice, which got me on a fever in the funk house tangent. But since [...]