Good morning, Mets fans! While everyone has all of their attention on the Juan Soto sweepstakes, which seem to be heating up, the Yankees are still keeping their eyes on the pitching market. The club in the Bronx officially spoke with both top free agent pitchers, Max Fried and Corbin Burnes, via Zoom this past week, per Mike Puma of the New York Post. Reportedly, nine team officials including...
Good morning, Mets fans! Your New York Mets are moving on to the NLCS! Last night, with the chance to get the series clinching win in Game 4, the Mets were finally able to christen the home team locker room of Citi Field with its first champagne bath. In a miracle season, which saw them start 11 games under .500, the Mets will now face the winner of the Padres and Dodgers series for a spot in...
Good morning, Mets fans! While Wednesday did not present a lot of news from the baseball world, we did get some updates on interest the remaining free agents are garnering. One of the bigger pieces of news came from Jon Heyman, who said on a Bleacher Report live stream that the Los Angeles Angels are one of the team showing increased interest in Joey Votto. The long-time Reds first baseman is...
Good morning, Mets fans! Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! On Wednesday, the Mets and new manager Carlos Mendoza made headway into filling out multiple openings in their coaching staff. The first hiring that was reported, was that the Mets would be adding former Blue Jays skipper John Gibbons as Carlos Mendoza’s bench coach for the upcoming season, per Will Sammon of The...
We’re looking back at the 50th anniversary of the Mets’ 1973 National League pennant-winning team by reviewing the most inspirational figures of that remarkable run. We continue with a player who over a 23-year career compiled over 2,700 hits and many more fans—revered in Montreal and adored in New York. The passion exuded by redhead Daniel Joseph Staub was not outward. He was a...
Growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s and ’50s, Ed Kranepool spent much of his time playing stickball in local parks. In fact, stickball brought refuge to a young Kranepool. As his stickball reputation grew, local gangs treated Kranepool well and insisted he not hang around with them after dark as they didn’t want him to get into trouble and not be able to play on their teams. Growing...
Perhaps the most important trade in Mets’ history wasn’t even for a player. In the story of a franchise, there are a few seminal moments. The acquisition and appointment of Gil Hodges as manager is definitely one of them. He had been a Met, a member of the original 1962 club in the twilight of his playing career. More famously, Hodges was a significant part of the Dodgers’ success in...
Good morning, Mets fans! Unfortunately, for both the Mets and the MLB as a whole, news has been Scarce. Luckily, the Winter Meetings are vastly approaching. Latest Mets News Per Edward M. Kull of Fordham University, Daniel Vogelbach will be at Sapiens Physical Therapy in Oyster Bay, New York December 1 taking pictures and signing autographs. Latest MLB News According to James Fegan of The...
In April 1969, humans were hundreds of thousands of miles away from setting foot on the moon just as the New York Mets seemed far away from a World Series title. By October 15, both distances had been covered and two feats once thought of as miracles were achieved. The Mets—cellar dwellers for the better part of their first seven years—headed into Game 5 on the brink of an accomplishment...
When Cleon Jones squeezed his glove around the ball that Baltimore Orioles second baseman Davey Johnson hit to left field in the top of the ninth in Game Five of the 1969 World Series to give the Mets their first championship in their eight-year history, it was something he never dreamed of doing. For Jones, making it as a major league ballplayer from his hometown of Africatown, a historic...
Please note, this article was originally written, produced, and posted on December 2nd, 2021 after it was announced he was being inducted. You can sum up a large part of Gil Hodges’ Hall of Fame case with an argument that didn’t happen. It was the bottom of the sixth inning of game five of the 1969 World Series. Hodges’ Mets, improbably leading the series 3-1, were losing the game 3-0; Jerry...
Good morning, Mets’ fans. Unfortunately, the Mets were unable to complete the doubleheader sweep last night. Instead, they settled with a split and will look for another series win this afternoon with Taijuan Walker on the mound. The best moment of the day came when Starling Marte homered on the first pitch he saw since being removed from the bereavement list. Marte was on the list after...
