A .500 Team? We Are Not Even Close… So Lets Trade! I have seen this sentiment posted quite a bit as a reason to trade Beltran and “insert name here” many times. The chief argument being that we are 7.5 games out of the playoff race and have not been able to make up any ground in a month despite playing some pretty good baseball. (I’m not even going to mention the loss of...
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Alas, like the AAA Bisons, there will be no joy in Mudville, or in Binghamton in 2011. Like the Bisons, the B-Mets have had a season where they had to plug holes. One or two were in the rotation, when Mark Cohoon and Dylan Owen were called up to AAA. But the rest of their problems stem from lack of production from many of their key players. Pitching – There have been some miserable...
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The reporting on the Carlos Beltran trade front is now so full of mindless ramblings that it has become too difficult to separate the fact from the fiction. It has deteriorated into a non-stop barrage of endless speculation, passed off as facts, from about a dozen different sports journalists all caught up in a manic, never-ending game of “Twitter Tag”. It’s a new low in sports...
Read MoreJoel Sherman of the New York Post reported the following via Twitter regarding Mets 2011 first-rounder Brandon Nimmo. [blackbirdpie id=”95621441768267776″] If this is true, thats great news! Nimmo was reportedly looking for a contract around $2.5 million dollars.
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Most of the news surrounding the Mets these days start with “Carlos Beltran this” or “Carlos Beltran that”. In fact, there have been so many posts all over the blogosphere about the Mets’ soon-to-be-traded rightfielder (such as this one and this other one. Both were decent pieces, but the latter post was a little too wordy for my tastes) that it almost seems like...
Read MoreLHP Jonathon Niese (9-8, 3.76) vs. RHP Johnny Cueto (6-3, 1.98) Starting Line-up Jose Reyes – SS Justin Turner – 2B Carlos Beltran – RF David Wright – 3B Daniel Murphy – 1B Jason Bay – LF Ronny Paulino – C Jason Pridie – CF Jonathon Niese – LHP Game Preview The Mets and Reds play game two tonight. Last night, the Mets took the opener by the score of 4-2. Tonight, Jon Niese will get the start of...
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