Please note, this article was originally written, produced, and posted on December 2nd, 2021 after it was announced he was being inducted. You can sum up a large part of Gil Hodges’ Hall of Fame case with an argument that didn’t happen. It was the bottom of the sixth inning of game five of the 1969 World Series. Hodges’ Mets, improbably leading the series 3-1, were losing the game 3-0; Jerry...
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Does Tomás Nido need to be the Mets starting catcher? If he does, it puts the Mets in two strange positions at once. The Mets spent $40 million a few months ago on James McCann, who batted .276/.334/.474 over 149 games in 2019 and 2020. The trouble is that McCann, 30 games into 2021, is batting .202/.269/.242, has hit about three fly balls all season, and has grounded into about 600,000,000...
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Was it a rat or a raccoon? We may never know. But within a few hours of the Mets rushing off the field into the tunnel, Jeff McNeil taking the field with what might have been a black eye, and Francisco Lindor’s bizarre press conference in which he announced he and McNeil had merely seen an animal and been debating its species, vocal fans on Twitter had come up with a more important question: Who...
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It was April 14, 1986, and the Mets were playing the Cardinals at Shea Stadium. The Mets had already lost two in a row after winning their first two games of the season; if they lost again, they would move below .500. The game was in extras, and neither team could score. Tim Teufel struck out with a man on second in the 10th; in the 11th, Gary Carter walked, but could go no further; in the 12th,...
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The sense around Mets camp seems to be that while a breakthrough in Francisco Lindor’s extension talks could come at any moment, there’s less optimism about a new deal for Michael Conforto. Today in The Athletic, Jim Bowden predicted that Lindor would sign for ten years and $320 million — but that Conforto, represented by Scott Boras, would reach free agency after the season. Lindor, obviously,...
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