Good morning, Mets fans! While the Dodgers captured a 5-2 win over the Padres in Seoul on Wednesday, that was far from the biggest story in “The City of Angels.” Bill Shaikin of the LA Times reported that Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, was accused of “engaging in a ‘massive theft’ of the ballplayer’s funds to place bets with an allegedly illegal...
Good morning, Mets fans! Wednesday brought another slate of four Wild Card matchups and made sure there would be no games left to play on Thursday, as all four series ended in two-game sweeps. The Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Philadelphia Phillies all advanced last night, giving themselves off until Saturday by closing out the series early. While it was a day of...
After the news of Shohei Ohtani being shutdown for the remainder of the season with an oblique injury, the New York Mets took the field against the Cincinnati Reds. In the second game of the three-game set at Citi Field, the Reds defeated the Mets for the second-straight day, 3-2. The teams will showdown Sunday at 1:40 pm ET with New York looking to avoid the sweep. Latest Mets News Anthony Kay,...
Good morning, Mets fans! Bill Shaikin and Mike DiGiovanna of the LA Times report that a group of formerly employed veteran scouts are suing Major League Baseball, accusing MLB of age discrimination and “blacklisting” older scouts. The lawsuit, which names commissioner Rob Manfred, the league office, and all 30 major league clubs as defendants, claims that MLB used the pandemic and...
Jacob deGrom in a Texas Rangers uniform. That’s going to take some getting used to. Actually, it may never really look normal. But this kind of scenario is nothing new. There have been a few occasions in which the combination of ex-Met player and team doesn’t sound — or look — right. Here are some of the strangest examples of famous Mets wearing the jersey of another team. Jerry...
On Wednesday, Buck Showalter revealed that David Wright would be visiting the team this spring to serve as an alumni coach along with a who’s who of other Mets legends. In addition to Wright on March 1-2, Showalter plans to bring in Edgardo Alfonzo and Darryl Strawberry from March 2-6, Mookie Wilson and Howard Johnson from March 5-10, and Al Leiter and John Franco from March...
This week, third baseman Scott Rolen was voted in by the BBWAA as the latest member of the Hall of Fame. Rolen is a player Mets fans are very familiar with as he began his career with the Philadelphia Phillies from 1996-2002. Over the course of his career, Rolen was one of the more underrated Mets killers. In 106 career games against New York, the eight-time Gold Glove winner had a slash line of...
Twenty-one years. It’s been 21 years since the horrible events that took place in New York City, Washington D.C. and Shanksville, Pa. In a matter of hours, 2,977 people died and the world as we know it changed forever. Of the nearly 3,000 victims, 2,753 died when the North and South towers of the World Trade Center were struck by planes, and ultimately collapsed. New York came to a near...
John Franco was not your stereotypical closer. He didn’t strike out many. He didn’t throw 100 miles per hour. But in terms of the end result, he’s among the best ever. Against the Marlins in the early stages of his 16th major league season, the 38-year-old Brooklyn native reached a milestone only one other relief pitcher had achieved and just four others have gotten to since....
Ever since his first day in the big leagues, David Wright embodied the qualities that make a team captain. Eight full seasons into his career, the Mets made it official. And in many ways, he’s kept it ever since. Wright became the fourth player in franchise history to have the honor, joining Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, and John Franco and it was the first time anyone held the title since...
People have been asking us all winter what we’ve been doing to pass the time during the MLB lockout. I’ll tell you what we do here at MMO — we come up with ideas that not only help us stay busy, but will help you all stay busy, too. Talking about the best teams and/or players in New York Mets history is always a good debate to have — especially during the cold winter months — but what if we...
It was no surprise a Mets catcher delivered the big hit which propelled his team into the League Championship Series. As for which catcher — that was about as improbable as any in postseason history. Todd Pratt lasted four pedestrian seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies. After no major league team would sign him, he spent 1996 as an instructor at Bucky Dent’s baseball camp and managed a...
