Author: Joe D

Forget Beltran, It’s Bay That Worries Me The Most

I don’t know about you, but while we should all be concerned about what kind of production we will get this season from Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran, it seems to me like Jason Bay is getting a free ride. Why? I look at both Carlos Beltran and Jose Reyes and I know exactly why they have performed so poorly, they were injured and missed a lot of time because of those injuries. But when they...

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Mets Not On Michael Young’s Trade List

Update 2/8 11: 25 AM Just a quick update from MetsBlog who reports that the Mets are not one of the eight teams on Michael Young‘s list of where he is willing to be traded, according to Elysian Fields of MLB.com. Original Post 2/7/ 2:00 PM According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, the Texas Rangers have told infielder Michael Young that they will attempt to trade him in the coming days. The...

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ESPN’s Mark Simon Talks Mets With MMO

Mark Simon of ESPN and ESPN New York, was kind enough to answer a few questions for me about a variety of Mets topics. Mark is ESPN’s Baseball Research Specialist and does a fine job providing Mets fans and bloggers with great detailed information that you don’t find anywhere else regarding the Mets. He is one of several Mets historians working at ESPN, and he had some very...

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Reese Havens Is Top Met on 2011 Project Prospect Rankings

Project Prospect released their Top 100 Prospects list for the 2011 season today and surprisingly it features six Mets, including Reese Havens (42), Matt Harvey (48), Fernando Martinez (53), Jenrry Mejia (83), Brad Emaus (94) and Wilmer Flores (100). These prospect ranking may seem very odd compared to other recent lists like those from John Sickels of Minor League Ball and Baseball America. The...

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Forbes and The Death of the Mets

Mike Ozanian of Forbes Magazine, eulogized the Mets this weekend and wrote the following: The Mets franchise as we have known it since Nelson Doubleday and Wilpon bought the team in 1986, is dead. There are two causes of this fatality: One, Wilpon forgot his primary duty as a team owner was to produce a quality product that, in baseball’s biggest market, was self-sustaining. He had that...

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