Author: Joe D

Boras Has Better Offers On Bourn Than The Mets At His Disposal

The Mets are willing to give free agent Michael Bourn a four-year deal, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post. Scott Boras is claiming that he has better offers at his disposal than whatever the Mets have discussed with him. Sherman speculates that Boras could simply be bluffing to try and get more out of the Mets or simply trying to create some buzz to drum up more interest for his...

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Some Concerns About The Mets And Attendance At St. Lucie

Deep concerns over declining attendance is not only limited to Citi Field this season for the Mets. The community of Port St. Lucie, where the Mets make their Spring Training home, have some abiding concerns about the team, attendance and revenue themselves. Ray McNulty of TC Palm says the Mets are nothing-special, and they have done far too little this offseason to give long-suffering Mets fans...

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Law Ranks Wheeler, d’Arnaud, Syndergaard In Top 100 MLB Prospects

Hopefully, ESPN doesn’t kill me for sharing this from my ESPN Insider account. Shhh… Don’t tell anybody… This seems to be a recurring dream – I mean theme -or is it meme… I think it’s awesome that virtually every minor league expert, baseball scout and baseball executive, seem to share the same sentiment on these three. All of them can’t be...

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Andres Torres and Ramon Ramirez Come Full Circle

Last off season, only a few hours after we learned that Jose Reyes had signed with the Miami Marlins, Sandy Alderson made some noise of his own and traded Angel Pagan to the Giants in exchange for center fielder Andres Torres and reliever Ramon Ramirez. After already signing Andres Torres to a one-year deal, $2 million deal last month, the Giants have just agreed to a one year deal with Ramon...

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