James Blagden is an awesome illustrator and baseball fan. He takes real accounts of events that occurred in baseball history (example: Dock Ellis talking about throwing a no-hitter while on LSD) and animates it with the narration being heard in the background. He used his unique talent to capture the flight back to New York after the Mets beat the Houston Astros in six games in the 1986...
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Jon Heyman recently reported that a rival executive thinks the Mets might consider trading Jay Bruce once they pick up his 13 million dollar contract option after the season. This news really isn’t all that shocking. Mets fans have been speculating for months that this might be a possibility depending on the outcome of the Yoenis Cespedes contract situation. I want to make one thing clear...
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Jacob deGrom was upset about his salary for 2016, refusing to sign the $607,000 deal that was offered to him by the Mets. This season though, deGrom is in line for a big bump in pay. According to MLBTradeRumors.com, the top 22% of players who were called up in 2014 will qualify for an extra year of salary arbitration. With two years and 139 days of service time under his belt, deGrom would fall...
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Last offseason, the Mets lost out on the prime player they were targeting in free agent Ben Zobrist. The team though may have themselves a very Zobrist like player in 2017 with a versatile Jose Reyes. Reyes could not have done anymore for the 2016 Mets, proving that he was not the washed up veteran that many thought he had become. Things had come full circle for the man who signed with the Mets...
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Let me say this right off the bat. I’m not writing this to sell people on the notion that R.A. Dickey has another Cy Young caliber season left in his right arm. I’m not writing this to try and convince people that Dickey the knuckleballer is a better rotation option than our five young aces, our newly emerging Triple-A starting depth, or our other 43 year old Big Sexy starting...
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