Although it probably didn’t feel like it by the end of the 2021 regular season, the New York Mets’ bullpen was one of the club’s biggest assets. With a cumulative fWAR of 4.4, New York’s relief corps checked in as the 10th-best unit in baseball. The man responsible for adding the most to that number? That’d be closer Edwin Díaz, who put up 2.0 fWAR all by himself,...
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The New York Mets have only reached the playoffs nine different times since 1962, but when they make it, they’ve typically made it worth the wait. Out of those nine playoff appearances, New York has reached the World Series five times, came within one win of the Fall Classic two times (1988 and 2006), and came within two wins of it on one other occasion (1999). The only time they were...
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New York Mets fans received an early Christmas present this week, as the organization officially introduced Buck Showalter as the next manager. Since Steve Cohen broke the news of the hire himself over the weekend, we’ve been seeing even more snippets about Showalter, allowing us to get a sense of what he’ll bring to the clubhouse in 2022. This quote from Trey Mancini certainly...
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While December 20th is a day New York Mets fans will always remember for David Wright’s birthday, the organization has also made a couple of impactful acquisitions on this date in franchise history. One was swinging a trade for John Olerud in 1996, and the other was signing Cliff Floyd to a four-year, $26 million deal in 2002. New York sent Robert Person to the Toronto Blue Jays in...
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Hey, did you hear? The New York Mets finally have a manager for the 2022 season, and his name is Buck Showalter. Lots of people are excited about it, and instead of just looking at the long-time skipper in very good photoshop jobs, we might get to see him actually don the orange and blue before Christmas. MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo is reporting that the Mets are planning on an introductory...
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