The Amazin’ Metscast – Episode 13 – The Wild Card Episode In this week’s episode, we preview the 2016 NL Wild Card game as our New York Mets take on the San Francisco Giants at Citi Field. We are joined by a variety of guests this week as we get the prospective from all walks of the game. C.J. Nitkowski, former major league pitcher and current MLB analyst takes a look at...
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While manager Terry Collins declined to reveal his lineup for Wednesday’s Wild Card game against the San Francisco Giants, it appears that James Loney will be at first base instead of Lucas Duda. “I’ve got a good feeling,” said a smiling Loney when asked if he was told he’d be in the lineup. Collins did reveal that he will be going with nine pitchers, leaving him...
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The New York Mets took a chance on their former player, when seemingly he would be more trouble than help. It has paid off for both parties. Jose Reyes seemingly was done, washed up as some would say. The Colorado Rockies no longer wanted a former star shortstop, possibly more having to do with the public relations disaster it would cause them than for baseball reasons. Reyes was not looked at...
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The New York Mets were floundering.The season was taking a turn for the worse with no turn-around seeming in sight. Terry Collins was reportedly in danger of losing his job at the very same time. A conversation though that was had with the opposing manager of the team’s Wild Card opponent, Bruce Bochy, is said to have helped turn things around for Collins as reported by Kevin Kernan of the...
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Thoughts from Joe D. To be honest, if Terry Collins had been fired at the time that was reported, few would have shed any tears. But somehow, Collins was able to survive the guillotine, mostly because of four things as I see it. 1. The team suddenly got healthy particularly with the returns of Jose Reyes, Asdrubal Cabrera and Yoenis Cespedes from the disabled list. 2. The team didn’t skip...
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