Look, there’s no way around it — today is going to be a tense one as MLB and the players union meet to negotiate a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. We’re just hours away from regular-season games starting to get canceled, and none of these thoughts are fun ones. With that said, I was wondering what we could talk about today that’d not only take our mind off the...
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Over the span of a few hours on Black Friday last November, the New York Mets completely remade their outfield by signing Mark Canha and Starling Marte to join Brandon Nimmo. And, as it turns out, they may not be done supplementing to this part of the roster once the lockout ends sometime this century. With all the innings he’s logged in center field, it was easy to assume Marte would man...
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We’re officially in the full-court press portion of the lockout, folks. MLB recently made a February 28th deadline to reach a deal so the regular season can start as scheduled. So, Monday began the first of what will likely be daily negotiations between the league and the players association. What came of these negotiations in Florida on Monday? Well, both sides were in the room talking...
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You know the drill by now, folks. After detailing the New York Mets’ organizational depth chart at catcher and first base, we continue going around the horn by looking at second base. Big League Starter Unlike the first two positions we detailed over the weekend, the second base job could go a number of different ways for the Mets. This depends not only on what manager Buck Showalter wants...
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Noah Syndergaard is no longer with the New York Mets, but he sent out a pretty simple tweet years ago that still gets referenced quite a bit. And, truth be told, I think about it at least once a year. We are a 2nd half team — Noah Syndergaard (@Noahsyndergaard) July 10, 2016 On the day he tweeted this, the Mets were 47-41 and six games behind the Washington Nationals in the National League...
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