Shortly after designating left-handed pitcher Zach Muckenhirn for assignment, the New York Mets have traded him to the Seattle Mariners. The return is Trevor Gott and former Mets pitcher Chris Flexen. Seattle previously designated Flexen for assignment. According to The New York Post’s Joel Sherman, the Mets will immediately designate Flexen for assignment. Gott, 30, was activated from the...
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After escaping a miserable month of June in which they failed to win a single (complete) series, the New York Mets turned the page to begin July. In finally winning a rubber game, they took two of three from the San Francisco Giants to get back into the win column. In a season that hasn’t given Mets fans much to cheer about, at least there was something to make them smile. 3 Up Pham-bulous...
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The New York Mets continued their streak of losing series by dropping three of four games to the Milwaukee Brewers. Each game, each week, it’s something else. Although Steve Cohen said that he remains hopeful, hope is fading fast for the Mets. Every time I write this column, I get comments that this should be “zero up, six down.” I don’t make the rules, but finding...
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Heading into Steve Cohen’s press conference yesterday, many New York Mets fans were ready to eviscerate him, almost regardless of what he said. Short of firing Billy Eppler, Buck Showalter, Jeremy Barnes, Jeremy Hefner, and the food vendors for the Brooklyn Cyclones, it was bound to be a bloodbath. However, in an unusually candid (for an owner) interview, Cohen laid forth his direction for...
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In the finale of the weekend series between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, everything that has gone wrong with the Mets’ season came to a head. Inevitably, the decision made was the wrong one, the team lost a game that they were winning by three runs in the eighth, and the team’s slump continued. Time is running out for these Mets. On June 26, they sit seven games under...
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