Jon Niese, 25, is enjoying the best season of his young career. He has grown and developed into a more complete pitcher as he looks to wrap up his 3rd full season in the Majors. He is beginning to look like a very solid rotation option for us going forward. Niese is potentially on his way to setting career highs in innings pitched, wins, strikeouts, and ERA. He has drastically improved his WHIP, which sat in the [...]

For those of you who think stocking up on big ticket free agents should be cognizant of what happened in Miami if they believe that is the way to go in building a team. A look at the Red Sox would do them good, too. It’s not about spending the money, but spending it wisely. The Marlins, who went crazy with Mark Buehrle and Jose Reyes, were swept this weekend by the Mets and are [...]

One of the bright spots in this Mets roller coaster season has been the resurgence and leadership of All-Star third baseman David Wright. His .400 average through nearly the first two months of the season, and the MVP talk alongside Andrew McCutchen and Joey Votto in early July, gave fans something to get behind in addition to the Amazin’s surprising first half. However, with the fall of Flushing’s Finest off of cloud nine, so too has gone [...]

The Brooklyn Cyclones snapped a three-way tie for the Wild Card in the New York Penn League and grabbed a slim one game lead after a 4-1 win against the Lowell Spinners. With the victory, the Clones’ magic number is down to one with just two games left with Lowell to end their regular season. Cyclones’ starter Luis Cessa tossed another gem to notch his fifth win of the season. The righthander went 8.2 innings and allowed [...]

The St. Lucie Mets set the single-season record for wins in team history as they went on the road and defeated the Bradenton Marauders 5-4 in 10 innings on Saturday. They bested that record on Sunday with a 5-1 victory in the final game of the regular season to finish the year with an overall record 83-52 – 31 games over .500. The 83 wins surpassed the total of the previous record of 81 set by the [...]

St. Lucie – Off Day St. Lucie opens tonight at 6:30 against the Jupiter Hammerheads (MIA) in the first round of the FSL Divisional playoffs. RHP Logan Verrett takes the hill for Lucie. Kannapolis 5, Savannah 2 John Gant was hit hard in his first start for Savannah in their 5-2 loss Key Players Gregory Pron – 1 for 3, 2 -run homer, 1 walk, 1 strikeout. Gilbert Gomez – 0 for 3, 1 walk, [...]

As you all know, Andres Torres lost an apparent leadoff double in the ninth inning when he was ruled out for missing first base, and the St. Louis Cardinals held off the Mets 5-4 Monday. What you may not know is that according to an Associated Press report, it was former Met and current Cardinals star Carlos Beltran, who was on the bench, that told manager Mike Matheny to make the appeal. “We’re saying our [...]

Despite two long balls, the Mets just narrowly missed taking game one of this series against the Cardinals, thanks to a disputable call at first. Mets lose game one, 5-4. Collin McHugh made his second career start today. He had a spectacular major league debut, but his second game wasn’t so great. He gave up a run in the first as he allows a triple to the first batter to face him. He allowed two [...]

With the end of the Buffalo Bisons season on Monday, the Mets will be recalling four players, and purchasing two contracts from Triple-A. The players will be: Jordany Valdespin, UTIL Elvin Ramirez, RHP Jeurys Familia, RHP Jenrry Mejia, RHP And the contracts that will be purchased are Fred Lewis, OF Justin Hampson, LHP This is in addition to Colin McHugh being called up for today’s start and the prior two additions early this week of [...]

A lot can be said about the culture of a franchise and what it can do to both the confidence of the players and the fan base.  The best example unfortunately comes from the Bronx where we find the Yankees who are almost synonymous with winning.  In Queens though, things never seem to go as well.  I don’t want to flat out call it a culture of mediocrity, but watching the fan base embrace the [...]

It was great to see the Mets complete the sweep of the Miami Marlins after their 5-1 victory on Saturday, but what was with that over-the-top, public display of affection for Jason Bay on SNY afterward? Did any of you happen to catch that or are you among those that change the channel immediately after the last out of a Mets game is recorded? Seriously, I thought one of them was going move in on him and [...]