After two games of the 2018 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers, it feels like the outcome is a foregone conclusion. In order to come back and win, the Dodgers would have to win four of the next five games against a team that won 108 regular season games and has handled LA fairly easily in games one and two. The task is more daunting when you consider that winning...
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Using a combination of clutch two-out hitting and an effective bullpen, the Boston Red Sox defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-4 to take game one of the 2018 World Series. The Red Sox, who won a franchise high 108 games during the regular season, scored five of their eight runs after two were out including their last four. The big blast came off the bat of pinch hitter Eduardo Nunez who hit a...
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On October 21, 2018, my colleague at MMO, Jack Ramsey, wrote an article examining the presumed five remaining candidates for the Mets GM position while detailing their experience in the majors. The candidates are Doug Melvin, Kim Ng, Chaim Bloom, Brodie Van Wagenen, and Casey Close, each of whom, as Ramsey points out, seem to have the necessary background for the position. Whoever gets the job...
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A trade, not involving the Mets, happened 31 years ago this past July. It was between the San Francisco Giants and the San Diego Padres, with the Giants acquiring Kevin Mitchell and pitchers Dave Dravecky and Craig Lefferts in exchange for pitchers Keith Comstock, Mark Davis, and Mark Grant. The prize in the trade for the Giants was intended to be Dravecky, and although he would turn out to have...
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To most Mets fans, October 14, 1973 is best remembered for game two of the World Series against the Oakland A’s, a game the Mets went on to win. But another significant event took place in that game 45 years ago: Willie Mays stroked the final hit of his glorious career. To many baseball devotees, Mays was the ultimate five-tool player. Perhaps members of the Hall of Fame executive...
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