We all know now, if we didn’t before, that Yoenis Cespedes can do some serious damage. But as we learned in sweeps of the Nationals and Marlins, his mere presence makes a substantial, if not night-and-day difference in a lineup that was the butt of jokes just a fortnight ago. Cespedes brings even more than we thought: energy and style, and a big time arm, glove and legs to go with his big bat....
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So now he has to manage. Actually manage, rather than serve as a glorified babysitter, de facto player development coordinator and punching bag for the fans and media forced to persevere with the patience of Job Yes, in the strictest sense, Terry Collins has a new job. In more ways than one. Off the top, he’s now in a bona fide pennant race for the first time since he took this job. Up to...
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Come on, people. We should have known. After all these years, we should have realized after the rollercoaster ride from heaven to hell on those days which will live in infamy, July 29-30, 2015, that the story was hardly over. That the final chapters had not yet been written. That something akin to paradise could somehow be regained. Because after all… This is the Mets we’re talking...
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The fiasco that was Wednesday, July 29 at Citi Field will for a long time stand as Exhibit A for a couple of truisms my wife and I share as we watch the Mets most every night from April to October (yeah, October): One, every game features something you’ve never seen before, and two, baseball is so great because it’s a daily, unscripted soap opera. I mean, when did you ever see a Met hit three...
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It’s easy for those of us caught up in the day-to-day roller coaster ride of this Mets season to forget the narrative that most everyone agreed had to define the team if they were to contend. Dividing the squad into four parts, it’s safe to say three of those parts have fallen into place just about as envisioned and hoped. The starting pitching has been every bit as spectacular as we dreamed it...
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