The legend of R.A. Dickey continues to grow after pitching another masterpiece tonight in the Mets 5-0 shutout over the Tigers. Jose Reyes ignited the offense again with a huge game that included his sixth home run of the season. Game Summary Dickey just continues to dazzle everytime he takes the mound, confounding hitters with his formidable weapon, the knuckleball. Dickey pitched eight solid...
Read MoreAccording to Andy Martino of the Daily News via Twitter, John Maine received the second opinion on his shoulder today and it was confirmed there is no structural damage. He does have fairly serious shoulder tendinitis and he’s gonna have to shut it down for awhile. The Mets also released a statement saying that Maine, Omar Minaya, Jerry Manuel and Dan Warthen will sit down soon to ‘develop...
Read MoreMany Mets fans on this site, spent a great deal of time debating whether outfielder Angel Pagan was capable of playing leftfield everyday or if he was nothing more than a good fourth outfielder. We had posts that wanted him as the leftfielder so that we could go after a starting pitcher over the winter rather than targeting Jason Bay or Matt Holliday. I myself, saw Pagan as a great fourth...
Read MoreMatthew Artus of the excellent Always Amazin blog on NJ.com, caught my attention with his post this morning. The subject was Mets right fielder Jeff Francoeur, which is always a popular topic here on MMO. I figured that some of you might like to weigh in on his blog. Here is part of what he says, and you can read the entire piece here. At the moment, Jeff Francoeur’s the everyday right...
Read MoreAccording to David Lennon of Newsday, the Mets have sent RHP Jenrry Mejia to Double-A Binghamton to continue his development as a starting pitcher. The Mets have yet to announce a corresponding move and have until tomorrow to do so. It looks like common sense has prevailed and Mejia can go do what he needs to do so that he can return as a starting pitcher. According to Adam Rubin, Mejia will...
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