One baseball player trait fans admire is “played their whole career with the same team”. It is standard trivia to know Brooks Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski both spent their entire 23-year careers with the same team – that’s the record. There are 11 players, all in the Hall of Fame, that played in 20 or [...]
We never really know what’s going to happen in a given offseason. Well, maybe we could have said “nothing” for the 1979 Mets and been more or less right. But we knew last year that the Mets were going to spend a lot of money – even if we didn’t necessarily know on which players [...]
2000 TOPPS RICKEY HENDERSON Baseball cards taught me that Hall of Famers Yogi Berra, Duke Snider and Warren Spahn played for the Mets. I have vivid memories of Hall of Famers Willie Mays, Mike Piazza and Tom Seaver playing for my favorite team. Yet, somehow, it’s not an immediate memory for me of Rickey Henderson [...]
This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for a surprise article from John Fox!
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I'd like to add multiple writers for the site. I'm looking for people to write our regular articles and also one person to write quick hitters six or more times per month. If you're interested in writing our regular articles, the minimum requirement is one article per month, although you can write more if you [...]
The Mets were never seriously linked to Aaron Nola so it’s no big deal that he’s re-signed with the Phillies. But the Nola signing means that we can now seriously expect the big free agents to ink contracts at any time. And we still don’t know what to expect the Mets to do this offseason. [...]
Even when you think you have enough starting pitching, the rigors of a 162-game season often test that to the limit. The obvious key to overcoming that is not just depth, but quality depth. That is an area that the Mets were seriously lacking in 2023, a weakness exposed first by injuries and then at [...]
Twice previously, there’s been an article here with a similar title. The first was when the Mets hired Mickey Callaway. And the second one was when they hired Carlos Beltran. There wasn’t one for Buck Showalter, because he was a veteran manager who knew all the angles. But now we’re back to a first-time hire [...]
As MLB teams take this time to finalize their strategies for free agency, they look at and reflect holes that need to be plugged on their roster. For the Mets, some holes are glaring, like the need for a consistent DH and starting pitching depth. Other roster problems can feel like an existential crisis, such [...]
Following the success of Kodai Senga transitioning from NPB to MLB, Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been every team’s favorite offseason item. He’s surpassed Shohei Ohtani as the player atop of my Mets’ wish list. While there’s some concern about signing Yamamoto necessitating the Mets having to use a 5.5-man rotation, the Mets likely have the depth [...]
1991 NOBODY BEATS THE WIZ BOB W. JOHNSON Card of the Week: Return of the Revenge of the Beyond the Valley of the Escape from the Card of the Week: Episode 1: Bob Johnson Well, it’s been over seven years since I’ve written one of these thingamabobs, so forgive the rust… In the intervening years [...]