MLB Network is In, SNY, YES and NESN are Out I don’t know about you, but ever since the debut of MLB Network, I haven’t tuned into SNY once. Of course I’ll be watching every Mets game as well as Pre and post game coverage, but let’s face it, given the choice between the two it’s not even close. I’m thinking that all of  you NESN and YES Network watchers, are feeling the same way. I mean [...]

Hypothetically speaking… let’s just imagine for a second that the players we hear on the HotStove are interested in the Mets. Now, let’s also imagine that Omar could sign most of them, be somewhat reasonable and not press “Force Trade” from a baseball video game like signing EVERYONE (we’re not the Yankees). Anyway, the players we hear in the news are: Derek Lowe, Oliver Perez, Manny Ramirez, Orlando Hudson, Randy Wolf, Jon Garland, and Ben [...]

In the 2008 Baseball Draft, the Mets selected Reese Havens, a shortstop/infielder out of the University of South Carolina. Despite his struggles this past season with Brooklyn, mainly due to injuries, he is receiving praise and hype. Baseball America named him number 8 on the Mets top 2009 Prospect List. He only played in 23 games this season, and in 85 AB he had 13 R, 21 H, 6 2B, 2 3B, 3 HR, 11 [...]

I woke up to the freezing cold and icy roads this morning in Pennsylvania. I did not want to get out of bed. So I turned on my cellphone and went to ESPN. God bless Verizon. There is another side to the J.C. Romero story. I was on board with everyone else where I did not fault Romero for his use of the supplement, 6-OXO. It looked like he did his part in researching to [...]

According to 1050 ESPN the Mets will be meeting with Scott Boras who represents both Oliver Perez and Derek Lowe. The NY Post confirms that Omar Minaya and Scott Boras will have lunch together on Wednesday. Here is what ESPN originally posted on their blog: A source says while in New York, Scott Boras will hold a face-to-face meeting with Mets executives to discuss Derek Lowe and Oliver Perez. Boras is in New York today [...]

The following comment was recently left by Drew: Ben Sheets would be a STEAL at $22M/2. If he’s willing to take it, give it to him, but I think tossing the offer we’ve got to Lowe right now to Sheets is still a bargain and possibly something he’d sign for. To get Ben Sheets for a 3rd year is a bonus, not a punishment. So maybe throw something like a 24/2 with a club option [...]

One of my favorite players on the Mets is without question Carlos Beltran. He has been an absolute stud in centerfield and yet I can’t help feeling the best is yet to come. In 2006, when he hit 41 homeruns and drove in 116, I thought Beltran was about to enter a huge power spike that would continue for 4-5 years. However, in 2007 and 2008 his slugging percentage went from .594 to .525 to .500. I [...]

Beyond The Boxscore has an interesting post today on “The Verducci Effect”. The Verducci Effect is best described as follows according to their site: “It’s like training for a marathon. You need to build stamina incrementally. The unofficial industry standard is that no young pitcher should throw more than 30 more innings than he did the previous season. It’s a general rule of thumb, and one I’ve been tracking for about a decade. When teams [...]

This previous Wednesday we bid farewell to 2008 with the usual revelry and fanfare. Safe to say, most Mets fans are happy to see 2008 placed in the ‘last year’ category. We all welcomed the New Year with the usual resolutions: Getting out of debt, quitting smoking, losing weight, etc…However, I would like to propose all Mets fans band together and share the same simple resolution: No booing. I realize this is not a new [...]

I was just checking out some Mets historical stats from the 2008 season at Fan Graphs. I’ve only recently discovered this great site, but now I’m hooked. They have this interesting way of measuring how clutch a player is. Here is their definition… Clutch: A measurement of how much better or worse a player does in high leverage situations than he would have done in a context neutral environment. Here are the top five Mets [...]

The Mexico League, Venezuela League, PR League and the DR League all have playoffs going on right now which mean there are plenty of Mets, former Mets and minor League Mets that remain in action and several Mets had big nights last night. The first one is Fmart, who had an excellent Regular Winter Season this year in the DR continued to hit his stride with the Venenzuela League (for Caracas). Last night he went [...]