Good morning, Mets fans! Mets veteran outfielder Starling Marte is looking to play in the Dominican Winter League, but there are some hoops to jump through prior to doing so. Marte, who missed most of the last two months of the 2023 season due to a groin injury, needs to get the Mets’ clearance to play in the winter league. Mike Mayer of Metsmerized Online reported that Marte was at...
Pete Alonso has appeared to have shaken off the early season rust and is starting to settle into a groove for the New York Mets. It took a few games for both Alonso and the Mets offense as a whole to find their rhythm. The offense was shut down by the Milwaukee Brewers, while Alonso was hitting just .136 through the first six games of the 2023 season. He also had just one home run and two RBIs...
On January 16, original Met Frank Thomas passed away. Thomas was acquired by the Mets before their inaugural season 1962 in a trade with the Milwaukee Braves. Thomas played for the Mets from 1962 until August 1964, when he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. As a Met, Thomas hit 52 home runs over two and two-thirds seasons, while posting a .262 batting average and driving in 173 runs. He...
Hi, Mets fans! You might know me from the interviews I conduct for Metsmerized Online, but I also love diving into numbers and looking up all kinds of stats and information, which you might see on my Twitter feed on a daily basis. In this new weekly feature for MMO, I’m going to look back at the previous week’s games and share some interesting data and information that I’ve...
A friend of mine from Long Island called my attention to a column David Lennon of Newsday recently wrote about MLB’s proposed rule changes, several of which will be tested in the minor leagues this season. A few of the possible rule changes were also discussed during Tuesday afternoon’s broadcast of the Mets’ exhibition game against the Houston Astros. The proposals are...
On July 12, 2015, Kirk Nieuwenhuis became the first Met to hit three home runs in a home game. The 2015 season was a magical ride for the Mets. From the near trade of Wilmer Flores, to the acquisition of Yoenis Cespedes, to the late-season march to the World Series, the 2015 campaign provided a little bit of everything (and most of it was good). When the Mets took on the Arizona...
It’s a strange beginning to summer, with no Mets baseball to enjoy on the warm nights. With July on the horizon, let’s relive some Mets history. As Independence Day draws near, Mets fans often think about July 4th, 1985 in Atlanta. That night, Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez hit for the cycle. He also drove in three runs, as the Mets outlasted the Braves 19 innings. The game, that...
In a recent Shoebox Memories article on Art Shamsky, commentor Jason Black asked us to review the card above – #49 from the 1983 Topps set – and to identify the Mets first basemen. Most of the other commentors, particularly MetsHof, felt that the Mets first baseman that day was either Lee Mazzilli or Dave Kingman. Let’s take our Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat off of the peg...
It was one month before the country celebrated its Bicentennial, June 4, 1976 when Dave “King Kong” Kingman had his finest day of his career for the Mets. Playing right field and batting cleanup for the Mets at Dodger Stadium in a scoreless game, after John “The Hammer” Milner singled to center leading off the fourth, Kingman hit his first home run of the day off Dodger...
If you follow the Mets on Twitter, you probably caught a glance of a photo taken from behind of Duke Snider, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, and Mickey Mantle walking in from center field at Shea Stadium shown on Thursday. That picture of baseball royalty took place some 43 years ago during a once-annual Mets event in which they honored National League greats and New York notables alike. The 1977...
Good morning Mets fans! The New York Mets (77-73) left Citi Field on Sunday with their postseason hopes hanging by a thread, as they stood four games back of a Wild Card. The one silver lining was that 10 of their final 13 games were against teams that already had lost at least 85 games. However, no game is a guaranteed win and the Colorado Rockies (66-85) proved that by beating the Mets 9-4 to...
Good morning Mets fans! Today is the first day of winter and thus we are one season away from Opening Day. Latest Mets News Former Met and current Mets-killer Daniel Murphy has left the Mets’ division to sign a two-year, $24 million contract with the Colorado Rockies according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. John Delcos of Forbes considers the Mets to be an improved team, but not that...
