Buffalo Bisons 4 – Norfolk Tides 3 Baby steps for Mark Cohoon. While today wasn’t a great start, it was his best start so far in Triple-A and a quality start to say the least. After giving up five earned runs and six earned runs twice in his first three starts he has only given up three earned runs in the last three starts. I am not sure what is more concerning, the 12:14 BB:K [...]

This past weekend the Good Guys traveled to Texas to do battle against the reigning American League champions. The weather was quite hot, but the Mets bats were even hotter – taking two of three games. Here are the 3 Up and 3 Down. 3-Up 1) 22 Runs in 2 Days: On Saturday, when the Mets offense scored a whopping 14 runs, I figured they would be starved for offense for at least a week. [...]

SI.com’s Jon Heyman reports via Twitter that the Rangers are interested in Mets outfielder Carlos Beltran  and could make a move for him soon after the All Star break. Rotoworld writes, Serious trade talks probably won’t get underway until after the All-Star break and plenty of other teams will be in the running to snag Beltran, who has maintained his health this season while batting .278/.372/.480 with 10 home runs and 49 RBI in 76 [...]

Time to be blunt. Jose Reyes – you are making it really difficult for me to choose somebody else as POTW. You’re being a great sparkplug and you’re tearing it up. You have a “three-game slump” and then drills four hits. The Mets offense has not particularly been on fire lately so it’s not so hard to differentiate. The men are being seperated from the boys, in a prodigal sense, as the year keeps going…and [...]

Buffalo Bisons 5 – Norfolk Tides 3 This is the Chris Schwinden from earlier in the season that captured the hearts of Mets fans everywhere. Schwinden gave up a three run homer to Jake Fox in the 1st inning and then went on to be perfect from the 2nd inning through the 6th inning. Over those five innings he struckout six men and it was not until the 7th inning that he walked a batter [...]

CYCLONES HOST “SOCIAL MEDIA MADNESS” AT MCU PARK Brooklyn Cyclones Plug Into Facebook, Twitter and More on July 6th You “Like” us, you really “Like” us! On Friday, the Brooklyn Cyclones welcomed their 15,000th fan on the team’s official Facebook page. The 15,000 fans are nearly three times more than any other team in the New York-Penn League and rank among the most of any Minor League Baseball team in the country. To celebrate this [...]

Dillon Gee pitched around some early inning trouble, and the offense put up enough runs to put the game out of reach as the Mets won the game, 8-5 and the series versus the Rangers Game Notes Dillon Gee was effective, if not spectacular in his six innings of work today. He allowed three runs on eight hits, walking two and striking out one while allowing one HR. Gee looked to be doomed in the [...]

With Friday night’s pummeling 8-1 defeat to the Texas Rangers, the Mets are now 5-11 in games where they can back to .500, at .500 and over .500. The Mets returned the favor Saturday night and demolished the Rangers 14-5 and once again have a chance to reach .500 in Sunday’s finale. Is the .500 mark beginning to wear and tear on the team’s psyche? The .500 mark has been made into such a big [...]

After a brief hiatus, the NL East report is back by popular demand! Here is what is going on all around the NL East: Phillies: The Philadelphia Phillies continue to show why they are the best team in baseball, winning seven of their last 10 games. -Roy Oswalt was pulled from his start against the Cardinals early after experiencing “back tightness” and will miss his next start. This is significant not only because he was placed on the 15-day DL [...]