Responding to Sandy Alderson’s praise of Terry Collins

"I don't frankly think the last 12 games have a lot to do with evaluating Terry," Alderson said before his team's 151st game of the season. "I think we've played well to this point and through the first half of September, even the latter part of August. I think the team has responded pretty well." [...]

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The once and future Mets

2014 has been a disappointment. For roughly the past two years, 2014 was the year many fans thought would be the one that turned things around. We had prospects coming up, and money coming off the books. It was the perfect recipe. Then Matt Harvey got hurt, the wallet didn't open up as much as [...]

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Carlos Torres rebounds, top prospects prosper, checking our moral compass

If the Mets relievers developed a gallows humor in regards to their usage patterns this year, you could hardly blame them. It’s easy to imagine Jeurys Familia whispering to Carlos Torres that the beatings would continue until morale improved. We went from every day Scott Rice to every day Torres and in late July-early August, [...]

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Steven Matz ends season on fire

With Minor League Baseball’s season coming to a close, it is crucial for fans to be aware of how well the Double-A Binghamton Mets played. Not only did the team go 83-59, but they ended up winning the championship. Even though it is only playoffs in the minor leagues, the experience is tremendous, and one [...]

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Why draw the line at Jenrry Mejia’s celebration and not others?

Everyone knows how the Nationals have treated the Mets as their private punching bag this year. Here’s how they’ve done against Mets pitching: Carlos Torres – 8 G, 6.00 ERA Jeurys Familia – 7 G, 5.68 ERA Bartolo Colon – 4 G, 4.13 ERA Zack Wheeler – 4 G, 5.96 ERA Dillon Gee – 3 [...]

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Why Daniel Murphy may be untradeable

It’s true. Daniel Murphy just might be the most untradeable person on the Mets. For reasons that make absolutely no sense. Nobody but the Mets sees him as a long term answer at 2B. Many have argued (Joel Sherman of the New York post comes to mind) that he should be pushed as a super [...]

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Blame the Wilpons, not the fans

If you were unfortunate enough to open up the pages of the Daily News this morning, you were subsequently subjected to one of the more ridiculous narratives to come out of the publication in years. That’s saying something considering in the last calendar year their sports writers have called for Rex Ryan’s job for visiting [...]

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Francisco Rodriguez and domestic violence

The issue of domestic violence has become predominant in the sports world recently with three different cases involving NFL players, most notably the long running saga of Ray Rice. It brought to mind the issues that Francisco Rodriguez had as a Met and subsequently with the Brewers. The memories of Rodriguez’s involvement with this issue [...]

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