During this three game series with the Miami Marlins, Terry Collins yet again showed everyone why he is a good human being and a leader of men. The Mets were in a terrible spot after the Jose Fernandez death. The team had to get up for the three game set while also showing proper reverence to a team that lost a teammate and a friend. The task was more complicated by the fact that players like...
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On the first ever pitch (91 MPH fastball) Tim Tebow saw in a professional game, he hit a solo home run off St. Louis Cardinals prospect John Kilichowski. Here’s the video of #Tebow’s home run. pic.twitter.com/EVId65fT3O — Luis Torres (@LFTorresIII) September 28, 2016 The left-handed Kilichowski was the Cardinals’ 2016 11th round pick out of Vanderbilt. He made nine...
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With Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, and Steven Matz all needing season ending surgery, Zack Wheeler needing to be shut down after a number of setbacks during his rehabilitation from Tommy John surgery, and Noah Syndergaard dealing with bone spurs in his elbow, everyone has joked about how it was the 43 year old Bartolo Colon who has made it through the season healthy. Well, the joke is now on Mets...
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Last season, on the eve of September, Sandy Alderson went out and obtained Addison Reed from the Arizona Diamondbacks. Up until that point in the season, Reed was having a poor year that included a demotion to AAA. In his 38 appearances with the Diamondbacks, he was 2-2 with a 4.20 ERA and a 1.500 WHIP while only striking out 7.5 batters per nine innings. When Reed joined the Mets, he became a...
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Sitting in Section 135, you get the opportunity to look into the Mets dugout. While watching the game, I could only make out that the Mets had hung something up on the dugout wall. As I would discover after the game, Yoenis Cespedes hung a Jose Fernandez Mets #16 jersey to honor his fellow countryman, defector, and baseball player: His manager, Terry Collins was right there talking to his star...
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