With a winning percentage of .656 over 61 openers, no major-league team is better at making a first impression than the New York Mets. And this after losing their first eight. The start of the regular season is cause for fans to celebrate, and Mets fans have celebrated more often than others. With 40 wins in the last 53 years, the only thing we can usually count on is a Mets victory....
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Several Mets are set to participate in the upcoming World Baseball Classic. So there’s a good chance this list featuring players who were Mets at one time or another encapsulating the four previous editions of the international tournament will have an addition or two by the time it’s over on March 21. 2006 and 2009: Dice-K Goes Back-to-Back By the time Daisuke Matsuzaka arrived in...
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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...
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Tim McCarver, a major-league catcher for 21 seasons and a Hall of Fame broadcaster who called Mets games for 16 years, has passed away at the age of 81. McCarver was known nationally as the analyst for a record 24 World Series and 22 All-Star Games and received the Ford C. Frick Award in 2012. He joined the Mets broadcast team in 1983 after a playing career that lasted over two decades with four...
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The longest regular season among the major sports naturally has the longest preseason. With all that time to prepare for the games that count, there has been a good share of moments: some funny, some unusual, and some with grudges to settle. Here are a few: A Scare for Mookie – March 5, 1986 All the anticipation that surrounded the 1986 season was of little importance to Mookie Wilson. He...
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