The way you hear critics of the Robinson Cano trade talk about the second baseman’s age, you’d think he was Bartolo Colon. Well, Mets fans are lucky that Cano is not Colon. He’s younger, more statistically elite, and not as big — or sexy, for that matter. He is just two years removed from a top-ten MVP finish and has missed the All-Star Game just twice in the last nine...
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As you may have heard by now, 2018 hasn’t exactly been a high-water mark for the Mets franchise. It’s all been downhill in Flushing since that amazing 11-1 start. The Mets are now the second-worst team in the National League, have a DL payroll almost double that of their active roster, and just experienced the most lopsided loss in franchise history. To make matters worse, the...
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Well, today’s the day Mets fans. Today’s the day that Bobby Bonilla gets that $1.1 million paycheck from his former team. Time for the mockery, the memes, and the misery of knowing that Bonilla is still — almost 20 years after his last game with the Mets — one of their highest-paid players. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past seven years, you...
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The Mets offense is built to live and die by the home run ball. Right now, they’re dying. Big time. For all of the Mets’ faults, the one thing they’re supposed to be good for is hitting home runs. The team was second in the National League in homers in 2016, and tied for the league lead last season, despite an otherwise awful year. This year, they’re 13th in the NL in...
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Last week, the New York Daily News ran a cover depicting Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard in Yankees uniforms. The cover story, penned by John Harper, speculated whether or not it would make sense for the Mets to trade their aces to the Yankees in order to tap into the Yanks’ rich prospect pool. Harper essentially argued that the Mets, with a struggling MLB roster and a barren farm...
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