Author: Rob Piersall

Revisiting the Mets’ 2001 Draft

Welcome back, my fellow Mets fans. Last month, I published the inaugural article in this series: Revisiting past Mets drafts. I decided to start with the year 2000, as it was the first year I followed baseball. That article can be found here. That draft, upon looking back, turned out to be a truly brutal one. You know it’s bad when the best player to come out of 40 selections was...

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What Collecting Baseball Cards Means to Me

It was a rainy day sometime in the spring of 2001. I had a tee ball game behind the local high school before it was cut short due to a swift, strong downpour of rain. We were almost home before my dad realized he had left his mitt, a thoroughly broken-in, tan Rawlings with a fake George Brett autograph on the palm, at the field. We turned his 1988 red Jeep Grand Cherokee around, he grabbed it...

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World Series Game Thread: Dodgers vs. Red Sox, 8:09 PM

BOSTON RED SOX (0-0) vs. LOS ANGELES DODGERS (0-0) Tuesday, October 23, 2018 • 8:09 p.m. ET • Fenway Park • Boston, MA LHP Chris Sale (1-0, 3.48) vs. LHP Clayton Kershaw (2-1, 2.37) World Series Game 1 • TV: FOX • Radio: WEEI 93.7 FM, ESPN Radio, WCCM 1490 AM (Spanish) It’s finally here! After a dramatic Game 7 of the NLCS, the Dodgers punched a ticket to the Fall Classic with their ace,...

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NLCS Game Thread: This One’s For All the Marbles

LOS ANGELES DODGERS (92-71, 6-4) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (96-67, 6-3) RHP Walker Buehler (0-1, 6.75) vs. RHP Jhoulys Chacin (2-0, 0.00) Saturday, October 20, 2018 | 8:09 p.m. CT | Miller Park | Milwaukee, WI National League Championship Series- Game 7 TV: FS1 | Radio: AM 570 (Eng.); 1020 AM (Span.), ESPN Radio, AM 1540 (Kor.) This is it. Last chance for romance. The Dodgers and Brewers will face...

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Alonso Keeps Pushing The Envelope For First Base Job

It’s no secret that Peter Alonso had a tremendous season between Double-A and Triple-A in 2018. He probably should have received a call-up, but that’s discussion for another day. Regardless, Alonso is making it hard for the Mets to justify keeping him in the minors for much longer going forward. After hitting to a triple slash of .285/.395/.579 and clubbing 36 long balls in the...

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