Month: January 2018

Alderson Doesn’t See Downside To Bringing Back Reyes

We may not have seen the end of Jose Reyes in a Mets uniform. Speaking Wednesday night, general manager Sandy Alderson fielded a question about the infielder and said there isn’t a downside to bringing him back to Queens in 2018. “[He] had an unusual season last year,” Alderson said, according to Chris the Teacher on Twitter. “In that he was poor in the first half and...

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Hall-of-Fame Class of 2018 Announced

Tonight, Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Trevor Hoffman, and Jim Thome got elected to the Baseball Hall-of-Fame. Chipper Jones Jones played 18 full years in the big leagues from 1995-2012. He hit .303/.401/.533 with a 141 OPS+ in that time frame. “Larry” tormented the Mets and all other teams. I refuse to call him a Met killer because he killed every team, not just the Mets. Gaby...

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MMO 2018 Top Mets Prospects 5-4: Szapucki and Vientos

No. 5 LHP Thomas Szapucki Ht: 6’2″ Wt: 205 Level: Columbia B/T: R/L Age: 06/12/1996 (21) Age Dif: -0.9 Acquired: Drafted by the Mets in the 5th Round of the 2015 MLB Draft (149th overall pick) 2017 Stats: 1-2, 2.79 ERA, 6 G, 6 GS, 29.0 IP, 1.172 WHIP, 3.1 BB/9, 8.4 K/9 Previous Rank: 6 Arguably, Szapucki has the best stuff out of any pitcher in the Mets farm system.  He has a sweeping curveball...

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Nimmo Deserves a Shot to Play Every Day

As we all know, this has been a long, frustrating, mostly inactive offseason for the Mets. After a 92-loss season, they have done little to improve a pitching staff that finished with the second-worst ERA in the National League last year, other than the fairly risky signing of 32-year-old Anthony Swarzak. They have holes or uncertainties at every position in the infield to some degree and have...

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Same Old Song And Dance

A rose by any other name is still a rose, right? Conversely you could say the same thing about bullshit. No matter what you call it, it still stinks to high heaven. That became as apparent as the nose on your face on Tuesday afternoon, when Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon treated the team’s beat writers to a free lunch and, let’s face it – who doesn’t like a free...

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