And away we go. With the World Series now concluded after the San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals 3-2 in Game 7, the Hot Stove Season officially kicked off at 9:00 AM this morning. All players with no contractual obligations for 2015 officially became free agents this morning. For the Mets it’s a very short list that includes Daisuke Matsuzaka, who may be returning to...
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Andy Martino of the Daily News takes a poke at the Mets shortstop situation and says the Mets are most likely to go internal, with Wilmer Flores and Matt Reynolds as possibilities, and speculates that Ruben Tejada will either be gone or a backup. He also reports that despite being a player that Sandy Alderson has liked in the past, free agent shortstop Jed Lowrie will not be a target of the Mets...
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According to this SAS release on the company website, the New York Mets and SAS, the leader in business analytics, today announced a partnership that will see the Club use SAS analytics to help analyze fan data at an individual level to engage with them in a meaningful way. This analytics initiative applies a data-driven approach to discover what fans want and how they behave so the team can...
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Joel Sherman of the New York Post says the Mets could learn a lot by watching how this season’s World Series combatants constructed their teams to excel and win within their spacious ballparks. Both the Giants and Royals play in parks that are not conducive to hitting home runs. The teams competing in the World Series play their home games in huge parks. AT&T Park in San Francisco...
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I wanted to update this thread with something Joel Sherman of the New York Post mentioned tonight regarding the changes to Citi Field. Sherman said that none of the Mets officials wanted to speak publicly about what the new dimensions will be when everything is completed. The reason for the secrecy is because the Mets are planning to have an event to unfurl the new look sometime in late...
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