The Mets open up a series against the Cincinnati Reds tonight from the Great American Ballpark with Bartolo Colon (12-11, 4.01) facing righty Alfredo Simon (13-9, 3.28) at 7:10pm. In his last start, Colon received the loss in the Mets’ 7-2 defeat to the Phillies on August 30th at Citi Field. He tossed 5.1 innings, allowed six runs on nine hits. He struck out two and walked none in the...
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Adam Felder of The Atlantic, disputes the theory that major league baseball has entered an age of parity and some would have you believe. Rather, the gap between rich teams and poor teams has widened. To back up his claim, Felder points out that since in the last 25 years since 1990, only two teams in the lower third of MLB payroll has won a World Series (1990 Reds, 2003 Marlins), compared to...
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When the initial managerial search took place, I didn’t mind the hire of Terry Collins over Wally Backman. In fact, I thought it was the right move (and still do) because I felt that a Backman hire would have simply been a move to appease fans, but not to necessarily win ball games. Every fan who stomps their foot and says “We’d be better with Backman!” is pretty much just inventing a fairy...
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Is Matt den Dekker 2015’s Left Fielder? It’s rather funny that in my last post this morning, I speculated that the Mets lacked the financial resources and flexibility to address the left field and shortstop holes via free agency, and then I came across this quote: On whether adding a shortstop and another bat in the outfield will be priorities for the big-league club in the...
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In his latest article, Phil Mushnick of the New York Post lashed out at outgoing commissioner Bud Selig as well as Mets ownership for the sorry financial state of the team. Mets ownership still appears beached, trying to extricate itself from its eagerly self-imposed relationship with no-questions-allowed Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff. Whether Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz jumped in blind or jumped in...
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A few days ago on Sirius XM’s Fantasy Sports Radio, Steve Philips floated the idea out there that while Nelson Cruz would love to turn his major league leading home run season into a huge, multi-year deal, teams will be wary of too many factors to consider a 4-5 year deal. He concluded that Cruz would likely command 2-3 years with no speculation about the money. Let me speculate about the...
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