The playoff years of 2015 and 2016 seem like a distant memory, and Mets fans have retreated back to their pessimistic views on the front office after a season in which the team had an abysmal 70-92 record. Fangraphs recently ran a poll with the straightforward question: What do you think of your favorite team’s front office? This excluded ownership, so the question focused heavily on things that...
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Lot of news broke last night in major league baseball. Shohei Ohtani signed much faster than expected with the Los Angeles Angels. The Angels teamed him up with one of the most exciting players in baseball, Mike Trout. Giancarlo Stanton used his no-trade clause on the Giants and Cardinals. Both are moving on from him and Stanton now reportedly wants to join the Dodgers, his childhood team. The...
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According to Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports on Twitter, the New York Yankees are making progress on a deal for Giancarlo Stanton. Passan adds that one source cautioned nothing is imminent, but another said it is advancing towards that. He concluded his tweet by saying the Yankees momentum in adding the slugger is significant. The Bronx is a destination that Stanton would reportedly not veto a deal...
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On this date in 1983, the New York Mets traded middling relief pitcher Carlos Diaz and the veteran utility man Bob Bailor to the Dodgers for a pair of minor leaguers, Sid Fernandez and infielder Ross Jones. Although I’d never seen Fernandez pitch, he had compiled some eye-popping minor league numbers and it was a surprise to me that the Dodgers would let him go for a couple of run-of-the-mill...
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Japanese star Shohei Ohtani is going to sign with the Los Angeles Angels according to Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times. Ohtani had recently narrowed his choices down to the Angels, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. Agent Nez Balelo on Ohtani picking Angels, “What mattered to him most wasn’t market size, time...
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Joe D. got us kicked off on Thursday with his offseason plan for how the New York Mets can turn back into contenders going into the 2018 season and now I will give it a shot. Our guidelines are that we must stick to a budget in the $30-35 million range given what we’ve heard the Mets could spend. We used both MLB Trade Rumors and Jon Heyman’s free agent predictions to come up the...
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