Mets News

Adrian Houser to Start Wednesday

More than a week after announcing he was moving to the bullpen, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza told the media today that RHP Adrian Houser would get the start on Wednesday. Houser’s move to the bullpen made way for top pitching prospect Christian Scott to make his MLB debut. Houser, acquired with Tyrone Taylor in the offseason, made just one relief appearance since his shuffle to the bullpen....

Mets Thoughts

3 Up, 3 Down: Nimmo’s Heroics Helps Mets Avoid Braves Sweep

Brandon Nimmo was the hero on Mother’s Day as the New York Mets avoided the sweep to the Atlanta Braves. After dropping the first two games of the series at Citi Field, Nimmo defied injury to walk it off for the Mets in the finale on Sunday and salvage something from the weekend. All in all, it wasn’t exactly a great series for the team in Queens. It won’t get any easier, with...

Mets Minors

Luisangel Acuña, Kevin Parada Heat Up at Plate

Sunday in the Mets’ minor leagues featured several fantastic performances, headlined by two struggling prospects, Luisangel Acuña and Kevin Parada. Acuña and Parada are considered top prospects for a reason, but they haven’t lived up to that while part of the Mets organization. On Sunday, though, they flashed their ability in their respective games. While Acuña and the Syracuse Mets...

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...