Rusty Staub’s tenure with the New York Mets was a journey filled with success and offensive destruction, combined with some horrible injury luck that stopped him from reaching his full potential with the team. Staub was a five-time All-Star before he even put on a blue and orange uniform. He played during the Mid-Summer Classic in 1967 and 1968 for the Astros, before making the team in ‘69, ‘70,...
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With the 2020 First Year Player Draft just around the corner, you can’t help but wonder who the Mets will take and if they will pan out. Prospects drafted into the New York Mets organization are entering a losing game, as only 14.8% of players drafted have made it to the major leagues. That number, however, does not take into account the round that the players were drafted in. If we look...
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LaTroy Hawkins embarked on quite the lengthy journey through Major League Baseball, serving 21 seasons and playing on 11 different teams during that time. That journey eventually brought him to Flushing on a minor league contract that, at the time, actually worked out quite well for the rebuilding 2013 Mets. Hawkins played for the Milwaukee Brewers in 2011, appearing in 52 games and posting a...
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When it rains, it pours, and it sure did pour for the 2009 Mets. The team only won 70 games, finished fourth in the NL East, and was plagued by injuries to most of their star players. They also missed an opportunity to keep an all-star reliever locked up for multiple seasons during his prime because they didn’t give him a chance to prove himself. That reliever was Darren O’Day. O’Day was signed...
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Operation Bring Big Sexy back to the Big Apple could be a go. In an ESPN article published this afternoon, it was confirmed that 46-year-old pitcher Bartolo Colon wants one more shot in the Major Leagues. Colon hasn’t pitched in an MLB game since September of 2018, when he had his seemingly final campaign with the Texas Rangers. But now he says he is ready to mount a comeback, and his target...
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