The Mets have never been big on awards. In its history, the franchise has had one Batting Champion, four Rookies of the Year, eighteen Gold Glove winners, five Cy Young Award winners, three Home Run Champions and no MVPs. That’s in the span of 53 seasons, folks. While collecting trophies is nice, winning pennants is [...]
In the 52 years of the existence of the New York Mets, they have produced four players that have won the Rookie of the Year; Tom Seaver, Jon Matlack, Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden. Each one was a major contributor in their rookie season and beyond, yet all but Strawberry were pitchers. The National League [...]
It’s already started. The 2014 season ended only a week ago, with the stirring victory by the San Francisco Giants over the Kansas City Royals. Before the smoke cleared from the victory riots by the Bay, before the Giants’ love-in parade ended – seriously, Hunter Pence is still on the podium – before Royals fans [...]
After a second place finish in the National League Eastern Division last season, it is time for the Mets to step up their game and make themselves definite contenders going into 2015. However, Mets’ General Manager Sandy Alderson is not too big on signing the top free agents, so this offseason will come down the [...]
There are cloudy skies looming behind this week's mystery Met, but you'd never know it by the look on his face. Our boy fixes his baby blues at the camera, looking for all the world like the love child of Shaun Cassidy and Gary Busey. He opens his mouth slightly, as if intent on forming [...]
Over the past several seasons, the Mets have gone through one of their toughest stretches in recent history. From the constant unnecessary trade rumors to the dangling of possible signings to the constant complaining of overly-invested fans, it has been a rough stretch. After the 2010 season, ownership went in a new (cheaper) direction that [...]
Full disclosure, I'm a huge Keith Hernandez fan. However, retiring number 17 is not about me as a fan. It's not even 100% about Hernandez as a player, although he's a huge part of it. It's about the Mets organization, and the need for something good to cling to. Many times on this site it [...]
This weekend, the Mets began the very first order of business toward shaping the 2015 roster by clearing space on their 40-man roster. Outfielder Andrew Brown was claimed on waivers by the Oakland Athletics and catcher Juan Centeno was claimed by the Milwaukee Brewers. The team also outrighted four players to Triple-A Las Vegas - [...]
The Las Vegas 51s performed outstandingly well in 2014 going 81-63 and leading the Pacific – South Division, lost to the Diamondback affiliate, Reno Aces, in the semifinals of the Triple-A playoffs. With some players making there way to the majors in 2015 and some players making the jump from Double-A where does that leave [...]
It is always easy for us fans to become an “armchair” general manager of any team, by deciding which players to trade, sign and demote to the minors. Mets360 organized a project, where us bloggers became the general manager of a team for a week. I was assigned the Cincinnati Reds, and had research to [...]
Last August, the Mets began to play Matt den Dekker and Wilmer Flores on a regular basis. den Dekker had the larger part of a platoon in left while Flores essentially played every day, seeing time at shortstop and second base. The duo was more productive than anyone else the club trotted out during the [...]
If you look at the current payroll for the 2015 Mets, you’ll notice that because of arbitration, the Mets only have 4 players that have a guaranteed salary: David Wright, Curtis Granderson, Bartolo Colon and Jon Niese. Everyone else is due for arbitration. That’s pretty amazing. You generally only see that 2 or 3 years [...]