Mets News

Morning Briefing: Luis Guillorme Traded to Angels

Good morning, Mets fans. After a wash in St. Louis, the Mets return home to Citi Field this weekend to take on the Atlanta Braves. Before delving into the series with Atlanta, Andrew Steele Davis talks about the ups and downs of the previous series in St. Louis in his latest edition of “3 Up 3 Down.” Now onto the morning briefing! Latest MLB News According to Daniel Alvarez Montes of...

Mets Thoughts

3 Up, 3 Down: Mets Bounce Back In St. Louis

The New York Mets are enjoying an off day having taken the series against the Cardinals. Although the final game was rained out, the Mets took the opening two contests to move back to .500 with an 18-18 record. It was the team’s first series win since April 19-21. Granted, the Cardinals aren’t exactly a great baseball team right now (15-21), but you can only beat what is put in-front...

Mets Minors

Minor League Game Chat: Brandon Sproat Pitching for Brooklyn

The big league club has the day off on Thursday, but all four New York Mets full-season affiliates are in action. Hard-throwing right-hander Brandon Sproat (0.92 ERA) has flourished in his first five outings of the season for High-A Brooklyn, and he’s on the mound tonight. Triple-A Syracuse Mets (19-14), Lehigh Valley IronPigs (12-20) Gameday 6:45 PM The Mets won 5-4 on Wednesday night...

Interviews

MMO Exclusive: Former Mets Manager, Terry Collins

What Terry Collins lacked in size on the baseball field, he made up for with a fiery intensity and desire to compete. Regularly the smallest player on every organized team he played on, Collins realized that he could stand out by routinely playing harder than the rest. Collins, 74, has spent over five decades in professional baseball. Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 19th round of the...

Fan Shot

Fan Shot: Mets Should Still Consider 6-Man Rotation

This fan-shot is by Tom Sokol Baseball’s starting pitchers are throwing harder and getting injured at a higher rate than ever before. Starting pitcher innings and pitch counts are decreasing year after year. Something needs to change in baseball around the starting pitcher, and one possibility is the idea of a six-man rotation. We already see six-man rotations in Japan, and we saw it in...

MLB News

Hall of Fame Manager Whitey Herzog Dies at 92

Whitey Herzog, a Hall of Fame manager who led the St. Louis Cardinals to three World Series and the 1982 championship and worked for the Mets as a coach and director of player development from 1966-1972, has died. He was 92. “Whitey spent his last few days surrounded by his family,” the Herzog family said in a statement released through the Cardinals. “We have so appreciated...

Podcasts

MMO Weekly Episode 77: Tim Britton Talks Mets Early Struggles

The Mets have started the 2024 season 0-4, followed by multiple postponements, and fans are understandably restless. Tim Britton of The Athletic joined MMO Weekly to talk about the Mets’ early-season struggles. Britton also discusses the state of the Mets starting rotation after the signing of Julio Teheran to a major league deal. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow us...

Mets History

2024 Topps Heritage Returns to 1975

One of Topps’ most anticipated releases of the year, 2024 Topps Heritage, is in stores now. This year’s release takes collectors back to a classic set and the most imaginative design from a decade of simple designs that ranged from iconic to downright boring. The first half of the decade featured iconic single-color designs in 1970 (gray), 1971 (black), and 1973 (white), as well as the...