By Joe D. Congratulations to the World Champion Washington Nationals on their historic Fall Classic victory over the Houston Astros on Wednesday night. With the World Series now behind us, the offseason is officially underway as the New York Mets begin the process of trying to unseat the Nationals in 2020 with some smart moves and a little luck. Here is my updated Mets Offseason Planner which...
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Isn’t it amazing how we can always recall some of our greatest personal memories with such vivid clarity and down to the smallest detail? I didn’t have a lot of great memories of my dad… I was a rebellious teenager and was always at odds with him, fighting with him at every turn. He was oil and I was vinegar. I didn’t wait until I was eighteen to move out of my house. At...
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By Joe D. and Barry Duchan As Brodie Van Wagenen gets set to navigate his second offseason as a general manager, my hope is that he learned a lot over the last 12 months and that it will serve the Mets well going forward. Brodie certainly had his hiccups last winter as evidenced by that ill fated blockbuster trade with Seattle and questionable free agent deals for Jed Lowrie and Jeurys Familia....
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By Joe D. According to several reports, the New York Mets have told Edgardo Alfonzo that his contract with the Brooklyn Cyclones will not be renewed. After serving as the bench coach in 2016, Alfonzo was named manager of the Cyclones in 2017, and what makes today’s news so stunning is that Fonzie led the team to their first solo New York-Penn League championship in franchise history this...
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With the New York Mets on the hunt again for a new manager after parting ways with Mickey Callaway, you would think that the 2019 season was just another debacle in a long line of previous Mets debacles. But I gotta be honest… Unlike all the other losing seasons by the Mets, many of which were demoralizing and heart-crushing, I’m not all that frustrated or shook up about the fact...
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