Although 2021 feels like eons away at the moment, for the Mets it will prove to be a pivotal winter in whether or not the club will contend beyond 2020 (if we have a 2020 season). With so many short-term deals on the roster set to expire, the 2021 club could look very different – and not in a good way. One area that will absolutely have to be addressed is the starting rotation. With three...
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With baseball still on the shelf due to COVID-19, MLB and the MLBPA have been hard at work developing plans to start the 2020 season, with hopes that play can resume in June or July. Up to this point, some of the most prominent plans have included holding the entire season in Arizona, or potentially re-locating teams to one of three “hub” locations: Arizona, Florida, or...
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88-74 was a good record, but it wasn’t great. In a division with some immensely talented rosters, it was just good enough for an average, third place finish. The Mets needed to shake things up if they wanted to become a serious postseason contender going into 1998. And shake things up they did. See, the Florida Marlins were coming off one of the most miraculous runs of all time. They finally...
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Well, the Mets lost. It’s not as if that’s a shock. Let’s face it, the Mets rarely win. Aside from the Miracle Mets of 1969 and the New York squad of 1986, the Mets have fallen short of a World Series championship during their other 55 campaigns. But this time was supposed to be different. It was online baseball. Instead of playing in the spacious Citi Field with...
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Good Morning, Mets fans! MLB’s Players League continued to the semifinals on Saturday night, with the Mets’ own Jeff McNeil unfortunately being eliminated from the competition, losing to the Rays’ Blake Snell. In his first game, McNeil came out victorious, winning by a score of 4-1. Sadly, Snell and his virtual teammates were able to beat out McNeil in games two and three,...
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The Mets of 1987 discovered that defending a championship isn’t nearly as easy as pursuing one. Injuries and infighting were the main cause for New York having to play catch-up with the St. Louis Cardinals in the NL East for most of the year. The starting pitching — so strong in ’86 — was decimated in ’87. Dwight Gooden missed the first two months due to drug...
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