The 2015 Mets had just come off their best season since the year 2000, and had taken home a National League Pennant to vouch for it. But after a monstrous season from Yoenis Cespedes and an even bigger postseason from Daniel Murphy, the front office knew that keeping both was an unrealistic dream. It was even further cemented that the Mets did not intend on keeping Murphy, when they traded...
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In the first season for the New York Mets in 1962, there was a shortage of lot of things, like wins, runs scored and competent play to name just a few. But the Lovable Losers, as they were known, did not have a shortage of individual stories that amaze baseball purists and fans even to this day. Many of these stories, like Frank Thomas’ power or the Mets attendance in 1962 (the sixth best...
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Good Morning, Mets fans! Latest Mets News Sacred Heart University will be hosting a virtual birthday lunch on Wednesday to celebrate Bobby Valentine’s 70th birthday. Ron Darling, Lee Mazzilli and Wally Backman will also be attending. Dan Martin of the New York Post wrote about how former Met ace Matt Harvey is trying to fight off the baseball end he fears. Latest MLB News The...
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If there is going to be a baseball season this year, one of the biggest hurdles that has to be decided is what the finances will look like for the league. Revenue is obviously going to be down no matter how you slice it, as a large portion of the schedule is going to be removed and fans are not expected to be allowed at games for most, if not all of the season. With that being said, there are...
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Per a tweet from Enrique Rojas of ESPN, the World Baseball Classic will not be played in 2021. Bob Nightengale of The USA Today adds that the next rendition of the WBC will be played in either 2023 or 2025. It was scheduled to begin on March 9th, 2021, and would last until March 21st, 2021. With so many uncertainties about baseball, both in the US and overseas, the International Baseball...
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After coming up short in the playoffs in 1999, general manager Steve Phillips went into the offseason in search for an ace to pair with Al Leiter atop the New York Mets rotation. On December 23, 1999, Phillips made a trade with the Houston Astros to acquire All-Star Mike Hampton. Hampton was coming off an outstanding season in which he finished second in the NL Cy Young race to Randy Johnson....
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