The New York Mets accomplished quite a bit in 1999 as a squad. Manager Bobby Valentine watched his club post a 97-66 record, clinching a National League wild-card berth and the organization’s first trip to the playoffs since 1988. Unfortunately, they couldn’t dig themselves out of an early hole against the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS, ultimately falling in six games. That...
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The most recent decade of New York Mets baseball had its fair share of exciting times. There were also a ton of frustrating moments that led to some disappointment — like the years-long rebuild that took place, all of the Tommy John surgeries, and everything else in between. Instead of thinking about all of that stuff, I wanted to focus more on the three years that yielded some exciting...
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Once Sandy Alderson took over the New York Mets’ front office and began rebuilding the organization toward its consecutive playoff appearances in 2015 and 2016, there’s been a focus on filling the starting rotation with as much elite talent as possible. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight now, we just ended up getting another example of the best-laid plans going awry. Even with that...
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Waiting for Major League Baseball to come back — or, at least getting some kind of hope that it’ll be back this year — has led me to get real creative when searching through the FanGraphs database. I mean, if you told me this time a year ago that I’d actually be spending time during April to talk about Armando Benitez’s tenure with the New York Mets, I...
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When all things are considered normal — you know, when we’re not living in the presence of a global pandemic — there’s quite a bit of player movement that goes on with Major League Baseball teams. There are those certain occasions where stars come along and man a position for a number of consecutive years in the same city, but it’s becoming less frequent. Heck, even...
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