Trade To Consider: Tony Clark

The Mets are in a serious need of power.  Due to injuries, we have only two proven home run hitters (Sheffield & Wright) in the lineup – one of which is not really hitting homeruns.  Citi Field is playing a significant part in our lack power – but I believe hitting for power is important to be a contender.  We are 25th in the league in slugging percentage, and if it wasn’t...

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MetsMerized Player Of The Week! 6/21-6/28

Alright, so I was going to say “I hope everyone’s having a good day”, but watching K-rod walk Mariano last night has sucked the life out of me. I wasn’t favoring the umpire’s strike zone last night, or the ESPN announcers…but that’s not what I’m writing about. I do hope everyone’s having a good day, and I hope you’ll enjoy keeping track...

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Are The Mets An Embarrassing Team?

As everybody knows by now the Mets were just swept by are hated rivals, the Yankees. I was embarrassed to be a Met fan this past weekend. I wasn’t embarrassed because of the lack of offense. I was embarrassed because of their lack of fundamentals. In the opening game of the series the Mets had three errors. Now three errors in a game is bad, but they had three errors in one inning! I mean...

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Here’s Some Doom to Go with Your Gloom

That’s right, I’m not in a positive frame of mind. Yeah, something about looking like a sack of crap when playing the Skankees will do this to me. I just cannot let the last three games go, and I really was feeling like we might be able to muddle through until after the All-Star Break. Now, I feel chances are good to excellent that in an NL of mostly very mediocre teams we’re...

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6/28 Minor League Report! TEJADA, GUZMAN, HARRIS

Buffalo 3, Charlotte 7 cf Cory Sullivan 0 for 4, .279 lf Jesus Feliciano 2 for 4, run, .311 dh Chip Ambres 0 for 3, run, BB, K, .249 rf Emil Brown 3 for 4, run, HR, 3 RBI, .290 1b Mike Lamb 0 for 4, .224 3b Javier Castillo 1 for 4, .267 c Rene Rivera 0 for 2, BB, K, .236 ss Wilson Valdez 0 for 4, .188 2b Luis Rivera 0 for 3, K, .304 Lance Broadway 5 IP, 8 H, 7 ER, 2/1 BB/K, 6.80 era, L (1-5),...

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Ollie Pitches Five Scoreless Against Class-A Renegades

Break out the champagne Mets fans, Oliver Perez pitched five scoreless innings this afternoon..  Oliver Perez started for the Class-A (short season) Brooklyn Cyclones today and beat the Hudson Valley Renegades Perez allowed no runs on two hits in five innings pitched. He walked one batter and struck out six while throwing 72 pitches. The Renegades lineup featured a half dozen players that...

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