New York Mets

By James Kannengieser When Jeff Francoeur was traded to the Mets, I figured he would play out the season and be non-tendered.  A massive disappointment for his hometown Braves, this is a player who was one of the top 5 least valuable players in all of baseball in 2008.  At the time of the trade, he was on his way to anot...

By Matthew Cerrone In a recent review, Baseball America said: According to Adam Rubin of the Daily News, “Jerry Manuel traveled Tuesday from his home in Sacramento, Calif., to gauge whether Mejia may be able to help the Mets in the bullpen in early 2010.”

By Ed Ryan(mredmetsfever@yahoo.com) Rudy Jaramillo is considered one of the top hitting coaches in the league, he was the runner-up for the Mets managers position in 2005 and was considered for the hitting coaches position in 2007 when his contract expired in Texas. With Johnson, Francoeur said the two have "clicked" and eas...

By James Kannengieser 2009 Mets Anagrams - Omar Minaya = I Many Aroma.  Pedro Feliciano = A Periodic Felon.  Marlon Anderson = Loner Or Sandman. Carlos Delgado: His Legacy And His Future - Eric compares Delgado to past Met first basemen and discusses his future.

By kranepool Is there a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel? First, the team started to listen to the fan base and has made improvements to $iti Field. The video screen in the RF corner came in handy on Saturday and the montage of Gooden, Straw and Hernandez looked great along with the banners on the out...

Should we get our hopes up? I'm not, not for a while yet. I'm not that stupid. Five in a row was nice, starting to look at the wild card race is nice, but I've also listened to Gary, Keith, and Ron. Those guys are the best -- Kevin, too. They're realistic. It's not so much how far behind the Mets are right...

By Neil deMause Just in time for the pennant race, we have yet another review of the new New York Yankees and Mets stadiums, courtesy of Metropolis magazine's Mark Lamster, who'd previously critiqued New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourossouff's review of the new places as being too focused...

By kranepool I give J- Man credit for he has much more patience than I’d ever have with the way the front office keeps making him play short handed to the point that Livan Hernandez and Mike Pelfrey wore spikes last night in case either pitcher would be needed to pinch run or hit. How embarrassing would it ha...

By metswalkoffs(noreply@blogger.com) As a precursor to writing my book, before we had this blog even, I made a list of my Greatest Baseball Experiences, covering my first 35 seasons as a fan, 1969 through 2003. To go by the list, I'd have to dip down to No. 7 overall for the highest-ranking non-Met episode: April 26, 1994, my first tr...

By David Roth And, in a sense, Not-Shea is very much the stadium that everyone else is getting. Yes, there is some appropriating of local baseball history and architectural texture into the place — the ballyhooed rotunda (actually echo-y and municipal when I was there has videos of Jackie Robinson pla...

By Ed Ryan(noreply@blogger.com) Joe McDonald of NY Sports Day has a great article on some of the farmhands that stepped up last year to contribute. Toby Hyde of Mets Minor league blog has a break down of our top prospects. While Evan Drellich of Metsblog explains why Fernando Martinez is still our best. Ted Berg of SNY Flushing...

By James Kannengieser Metsblog – The most widely read Mets blog, Matt Cerrone made writing for Metsblog his full-time job in 2006 and has partnered with SNY. It is a great source for Mets news, game recaps, and hot stove updates. Matt and his team of writers post about ten times per day. Check in with Metsblog this wee...

By Mike Newman Nothing says spring training like Livan Hernandez and his size-52 pants taking ground balls at half-speed! This spring, Port St. Lucie will be home to the Livan Hernandez circus filled with $2.99 McDonald’s value meals and 500-foot blasts from the opposing team. In weeks past, I’d spend th...

By Chris McCown January 21st: Jeff figured out what we could expect from Carlos Delgado. He ended up with a .871 OPS, for reference. June 18th: Willie Randolph finally got canned, Oh happy day! We held a roundtable about it. That part about Jerry Manuel maybe being more patient than Randolph with the bullpen w...

By Mike Newman In 2007, I think I even watched Thole play a couple of games in Savannah. I don’t remember much about him, but I remember shaking my head at a first baseman with no home runs as part of one of the five worst minor league teams in baseball that season. In my mind, it was only fitting.

By john The next pitcher that I’d like to profile is Duaner Sanchez.  Sanchez was a key member of the Mets bullpen in 2006.  After missing all of 2007, Sanchez returned to the Mets and pitched with a lot of mixed results in 2008.  Sanchez finished 2008 with a 4.32 ERA, his highest mark during his four full...

By Mike Madden Now that the federal government is sending $20 billion to Citigroup (on top of the $25 billion the bank got in the Wall Street bailout earlier this fall), you and every other taxpayer may feel a special attachment to the Mets, who will be playing next year at a new stadium named Citi Field. Cit...

By Jessica Bader I've heard the arguments for and against the black alternate jersey (I tend to lean towards "for"), and I would imagine that I dislike the white jerseys sans pinstripes more than most other Mets fans. But taking the orange out of the Mets' color scheme? That's a new one. I would imagine that th...

By Chris McCown The Yankees hold an option on Marte, who some blamed for the collapse of their season after he came over and had a 5.40 ERA over 18 1/3 innings despite respectable peripherals. The line of thought seems to be about 50/50 on whether they’ll pick it up, as Hank Steinbrenner is apparently priming...

By Eric Simon The Mets may have as many as three rotation spots to fill and as many as two three all of their bullpen spots that need plugging. There are a lot of options out there in both buckets, and the Mets will spend plenty of time this winter trying to make the staff over.

By Mike Newman 1. Yankees - Austin Jackson, Philip Hughes, Ian Kennedy 2. Dodgers - Matt Kemp, James McDonald, Scott Elbert 3. Braves - Jordan Schafer, Charlie Morton, Tommy Hanson 5. Cubs - Felix Pie, Sean Marshall, Jeff Samardzija 6. Mets - Fernando Martinez, Jon Niese, Bobby Parnell

Look, I'm a Mets fan because I was a Mets fan when I was a kid. I rooted for the Mets probably because my parents grew up in Brooklyn and Rockaway and therefore rooted for the Dodgers. I like to think I'm a Mets fan because they have better philosophy, but I know in my heart that it's really the color...

By john When the Mets’ season ended too soon for my liking on September 28th, 2008, I thought to myself, “What Now?” Baseball is a long season and now I suddenly found myself with some free time. I figured that I would go back and look at the various pitchers that pitched for the Mets in 2008 and see how t...

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By Howard Megdal The final spot in the bullpen could be a toss-up between Duaner Sanchez, Aaron Heilman and Bobby Parnell. Parnell could probably use a year of seasoning at AAA, but he’d be a fine final man in the bullpen. And should either Sanchez or Heilman return to form, the Mets could give Parnell additio...

By Jessica Bader Unless the first game goes deep into extras, you should have time to grab some dinner and watch a little football before the second game starts at 8 PM. ESPN got its claws on the last Mets/Phillies game of the season a few weeks ago, and they must be thrilled with the pitching matchup they lucke...

Game 140: Mets 9 - Brewers 2 There's quite a bit of disagreement over whether the Mets should try to re-sign Ollie after the season. To me, if they could get him on a four year deal it's a no brainer, and I'd consider five. He's young, he loves to compete, and he's proven he can do it New York.

By Alex Nelson Best Hitter: David Wright had the best month, though it was a strong month in general. Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, and Carlos Delgado are up there as well. Hell, even Brian Schneider hit .286/.365/.536. Wright hit .310/.370/.575 over the month with seven homers, nine doubles, 22 runs scored, and 2...

By Alex Nelson In any event, here are some notes about a few of the members Mets’ draft class currently at Brooklyn, all college players: One of the most intriguing selections the Mets made was centerfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis, the top-ranked prospect from the NAIA. Nieuwenhuis is a big centerfielder wi...

With the proliferation of web sites now dedicated to evaluating minor league prospects, fans have a fairly easy time reciting their team's top prospects, usually "in order". Back in the '80's, there was only Baseball America to provide this glimpse into the future. In retrospect, there w...

By Jessica Bader That game at Coors was the first of three consecutive bad starts for Pedro Martinez, but he had something of a bounceback outing in Philadelphia Monday night. Although Pedro looked a bit shaky towards the end of his outing and gave up a pair of home runs, those solo shots were the only two run...

By Alex Nelson The Mets will probably have an easier schedule this month than last. There won’t be any crazy traveling arrangements at least. After finishing in St. Louis, the Mets will travel to Philadelphia before returning home to host the San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies. After that is the All...

By Alex Nelson This could be a big draft for the Mets. The Mets’ farm system is pretty barren–even more so following the Johan Santana trade–and the Mets luckily have three picks in the first and supplemental rounds: number 18, number 22, and number 33 overall. The 18 and 33 come courtesy of the Braves, who w...

By Alex Nelson The Mets followed up their disappointing 14-12 April with an even more disappointing 13-15 performance in May, one that got so disheartening after a five-game losing streak, that Mets Geek closed up shop. Here’s the team-by-team breakdowns: Team W L RS RA Arizona 2 1 16 14 Atlanta 0 4 9 27 Ci...

By Aaron Dorman MetsGeek: What are Valentino Pascucci’s pluses? Can he help the Mets at all? MetsGeek: So we shouldn’t be rooting for the Mets to release Delgado and call him up? MetsGeek: Yeah, I think Fernando Martinez might be in a similar situation. At what point does Fernando Martinez have to put up nu...

By Eric Simon WPA by Opponent: +0.0% Fernando Tatis! A hit! A run! No comprende!John Maine threw a lot of pitches in six innings, but he struck out five batters while only walking one, allowed just two hits and lowered his season ERA to 2.81. His FIP is 4.01, but he has consistently outperformed his FIP by a hal...

By Ed Ryan John Feinstein in his new book about Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina, has a section from Glavine about the collapse in which Glavine states the only player who called for a closed door players only meeting was Marlon Anderson. That tells me a lot about the leadership on this team when the newest...

The photographs are simply wonderful. Well chosen and beautifully rendered, they combine with an elegant graphic layout to make this book visually stunning all the way through. I've spent hours enjoying all of them and reliving the memories that they evoke. Some particular favorites are...

By Eric Simon David Wright managed to coax two walks out of Phillies pitching, but he otherwise looked inept at the plate against off-speed pitches of any variety. I guess we should be happy that he is OPS-ing .845 despite hitting just .233. Behind Wright, Carlos Beltran reached base two more times but stru...

By Aaron Dorman The worst is obvious. I was in the upper deck down the right field line as Carlos Beltran took a called strike three. We got to drive across California to meet up with Andrea Mallis, a sports astrologer. She grew up in New York and relocated to California 20 years ago and still is a die-hard Mets fa...

Yeah, I know, stupid of me to dare compare Yankees prospects (who are all wunderkind and Über-valuable) to prospects from an organization other than the Yankees (who, being non-Yankees prospects, are all therefore just minor league filler). Stupid, stupid, stoooop-id!

1978 - Hubie Brooks. Very solid selection with #3 choice in draft. Was close to major league ready when chosen. Had some pretty good years with the Mets before going to Montreal in the Gary Carter deal. Had a decent career. Kirk Gibson was taken 9 picks later, but hard to fault this selection.

By Greg Want some gear...FROM THE NEW YORK METS?" 2) It's daylight. The 1973 World Series games that were played at Shea were famously at night. At night and Arctic. Ya don't think a catcher on the World Series roster couldn't have snagged an extra ticket to at least one of the games?

By e chigliak 2. The Mets Fans. Boss-  "For the Mets, I want to say Beltran, but Delgado! With what's on base in front of him, and what's up behind him..." Edward - "Braves, Mets, Nationals, Phils, Marlins!"(ed- Final 2006 NL East standings- NY-Philly-Atl-Florida-DC. Runner was right this time.)

By Jessica Bader As bad as the pitching was, Willie Randolph does bear some blame for this collapse, arguably the worst in the history of the National League. A manager’s job is to put his players in a position to succeed, and too often Willie failed to do that. From letting Shawn Green bat for himself when left...

By Matthew Cerrone …unbelievably, in what could realistically be the final start of his a career, and most likely his final start with the Mets, Tom Glavine allowed seven runs to score before the second out of the first inning…i mean, i’ve never seen anything like it, and was beyond shocked…what’s worse, no...

By Jessica Bader Ring Finger: The Braves and Phillies played against one another early in the week, in one of the few instances in which Mets fans will ever be okay with the Braves winning. You may have heard about the series finale, but whether or not you did, this is a must-see.

By Eric Simon Having just dispatched the also-ran Houston Astros in three straight to close out Craig Biggio's last trip to New York as a big leaguer, the Mets anxiously await the arrival of the Atlanta Braves for a three-game set, the outcome of which should answer the question on everyone's lips: Wil...

By Dan Scotto Last week’s answer: Doc Gooden, 1985. I figured most Met fans would remember that, but it’s been 21 years since a Met last won a major award. They’ve had a few good candidates in some of those years, off the top of my head (Beltran ‘06, Piazza ‘00…)

By D.J. Short Are you glad Jim Bowden didn't break up this bullpen? as far as his comment about Willie Randolph, i'm sure he'd be happy to thank us for Tom Glavine batting in the ninth inning a few weeks ago...i'd like to think the Mets won't have to do something like that again...