This offseason, we’re looking at the Mets’ history with free agency. This list may change in the coming years in terms of rankings and new additions (Maybe Carlos Correa? Possibly Justin Verlander?). But for now, we’ve featured an underdog pitcher at No. 10 up to the greatest center fielder at No. 2. And at the top of the list is a player who joined the team mid-season via...
Six up with six to play. Not even the Mets, well-accustomed to late-season collapses in recent years, could possibly succumb to such a freefall. Fortunately, either a New York win or a loss by the Los Angeles Dodgers would ensure a second consecutive trip to the postseason. But the Mets — specifically their general manager — had no interest in settling for a wild card berth, even if...
A full week after their 18-hour flight from halfway around the world, the Mets still showed symptoms of jet lag. They dropped two of three to the Padres and only managed to scrape together two hits in the opener against Los Angeles. The Mets actually won that night in spite of their anemic offense — and have Rick Reed to thank for it. Reed augmented his solid start in Japan with 7.2...
Current MLB Network Sirius XM host Steve Phillips served as the general manager of the New York Mets from 1997-2003 after working in their scouting department from 1990-1996. I recently had the chance to talk to the Mets former GM. Phillips works with Eduardo Perez at Sirius, who was most recently the runner up for the Mets managerial position, losing out to Carlos Beltran. Phillips says he has...
Good morning Mets fans! The off-season keeps moving, but the Mets continue to just want no part of it…. Latest Mets News The Mets announced that they officially extended GM Sandy Alderson. Former Mets General Manager Steve Phillips defended Fred and Jeff Wilpon in a Twitter rant Wednesday morning. Joel Sherman of the New York Post writes that he expects the Mets to spend $10-$15 million...
As the New York Mets conclude their three-game set against the Miami Marlins on Sunday, baseball fans continue to watch a 42-year-old hitting marvel, who is only four hits shy of reaching the elusive 3,000 hit club. What’s more amazing is that combined with the nine-years he spent with the Orix Blue Wave team in Japan, Ichiro Suzuki already has a combined 4,274 hits, 18 more hits than...
According to Robert Brender of SNY, the Mets players no longer have their team issued “Take the Damn Thing” t-shirts. They’re all gone. “I haven’t checked further,” Brender says. “But was told they were taken back.” Sigh… February 23 I just read this post on MetsBlog where Matt Cerrone reports (via Robert Brender) that the Mets are going to...
David Wright is now the Mets’ longest tenured player. The Mets 40 man roster presently has 38 occupants. 12 of those are occupied by players acquired during Sandy Alderson’s tenure. 25 were acquired under Omar Minaya. 1 was acquired under Steve Phillips. So how was the present 40 man roster assembled and by whom? Sandy Alderson: Trade – Vic Black, Travis d’Arnaud, Zack...
With the loss in game one of yesterday’s doubleheader with the Miami Marlins, the Mets clinched their 5th straight losing season. This shouldn’t come as a shock since it has happened many times in the past – from the newly minted team of the ’60’s to the “Franchiseless” Mets of the late ’70’s and early ’80’s. Hell even the teams...
After a brilliant 16-year career, outfielder Vladimir Guerrero announced his retirement this weekend, according to Hector Gomez of the Dominican Listin Diario. While he never made it to those almost automatic Hall of Fame thresholds of 3,000 hits or 500 home runs, it will be hard to keep his .318/.379/.553 career slash line out of Cooperstown. Guerrero was one of the most dominating players of...
I’m a fan of history. Whether it be baseball or Mets history or the history of our nation, I love how history provides us with a template for the future. We tend to have short attention spans in this new media digital age. We tweet, surf the web and instant message while texting all at once. We Hulu a show that we could’ve easily watched a few nights before but our DVR was already...
Baseball analyst Steve Phillips has been fired by ESPN days after the former Mets general manager admitted to having an affair with a production assistant. Phillips’ admitted to his relationship with 22-year-old Brooke Hundley which led to his wife filing for divorce. This wasn’t the first time as most of you already know. In 1998, Phillips admitted having sex with a Mets employee,...
