A MMO Fan Shot by Larry Smith I’ll give Brodie Van Wagenen this – he’s proactive. I don’t think that Sandy Alderson would have jumped on Joe Panik or Brad Brach in recent years. Personally I don’t expect the Panik move will work out but I’m quite confident that Brach might just pan out. Here’s my thinking. Panik has been a major leaguer for six years and has been pretty good, and actually...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Gabriel Pariente On July 12th, the NY Mets lost their opening game of the second half of the season to the Miami Marlins 8-4, falling to 11 games under .500 at 40-51. A season that had begun with such promise much like 2018. had seemingly reached the point of no return with continual bullpen implosions by our top relievers Jeurys Familia and Edwin Diaz, the lack of hustle at...
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A MMO Fan Shot by Cesar Montenegro My story begins in 1985 (I was 5-years old), when my dad taught me to play baseball and told me that he had been a long time fan Yankee fan. In my country we could only watch some games on TV, so on his birthday, June 27th 1985, the newspaper announced the sports schedule, New York vs. Chicago, but to his surprise and dismay it was the Mets playing the Cubs and...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Marc Epstein (Mystere2417) If leadership is about having a philosophy, confidently implementing a vision, and being consistent with that approach, then Brodie Van Wagenen is a leader. From the moment this former player agent was hired in out-of-the-box fashion to be the new Mets GM, taking over from the experienced but conservative Sandy Alderson, Brodie has articulated and...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Andy Love of Fair and Unbalanced The Mets are really bad at honoring their history. Given that the franchise is younger than me with only two World Series wins and a handful (or two) of iconic players, it shouldn’t be that hard to celebrate our modest amount of glory. But their stadium, Citi Field, completed in 2009 and patterned after old Ebbetts Field, was more of an...
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