I’ve received about six or seven emails this week asking me what I thought the Mets payroll will be in 2016 and whether the team was ready to spend again after the huge increase in attendance and an incredible regular season that included a run all the way to the World Series. Tough question, but I’ll do my best to answer it. Let me begin by saying I don’t advocate adding...
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Lefty reliever Alex Torres has officially ended his tenure with the New York Mets after he elected free agency on Friday rather than remain with Triple-A Las Vegas. Torres, you may recall, was acquired from the San Diego Padres on the eve of the regular season for minor league right-handers Cory Mazzoni and Brad Wieck. His season was fraught with disappointment and frustration, producing a 5.68...
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The Mets will target Denard Span in free agency and keep their eye on Gerardo Parra and Dexter Fowler, writes Marc Carig of Newsday. Span, 31, played just 61 games in an injury-plagued 2015 and hit .301/.365/.431 with five homers and 21 RBI. He didn’t receive a qualifying offer from the Nationals which makes him very appealing. MLBTR Projected: Three years, $39 million Fowler, 29, is a...
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MLB Trade Rumors released their annual Top 50 Free Agents list, complete with projected deals and landing spots. The project that the Mets will sign shortstop Ian Desmond and outfielder Dexter Fowler. Here is their capsule for each followed by my commentary. Ian Desmond – Mets. Five years, $80MM. Perhaps the game’s best shortstop from 2012-14, Desmond slumped to a .233/.290/.384 batting...
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Over their first seven years the New York Metropolitans had not exactly set the baseball world on fire. From 1962 through 1968, they compiled a record of 394-737 and finished a combined 288 ½ games back. In seven seasons, they’d finished 10th five times and 9th twice. Coming into 1969, there was some cautious optimism. Gil Hodges, the teams fourth manager, was in his second full season and young...
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The General Managers Meetings officially begins on Monday, November 9 in Boca Raton, Florida and will last through Thursday, November 12. All 30 MLB general managers will meet and discuss a variety of baseball issues, participate in various workshops and make presentations, and elect the 2015 MLB Executive of the Year. But of course that is merely the backdrop. The GM Meetings have evolved into...
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