Good morning, Mets fans! In his media availability on Wednesday, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza told reporters that the team will be having certain guest instructors during spring training. The three that he mentioned are Mets legends Carlos Beltrán, Edgardo Alfonzo and Darryl Strawberry. Mendoza said that the three former big league All-Stars will have lockers and uniforms available to them just...
The Mets needed more hitting and less drama. In late July 2015, they got both. The week leading up to the trade deadline, the Mets began seeking a bat that would jump-start a lifeless offense. This as New York teetered at the .500 mark yet had first place in its sights. It ended with the Mets landing that key bat and beginning their surge to the National League East title and, ultimately, the...
David Wright took off from first base on a line drive by Yoenis Céspedes into right-center field in the opener of a crucial series against the Mets’ closest NL East pursuer. As the ball skipped off the fence and was retrieved by the Washington Nationals’ Bryce Harper, Wright turned at third with the intent of heading home — determined to increase New York’s lead in the...
It was a crazy week — even by Mets standards. It began with the team seeking help before the trade deadline — specifically a bat that would jump-start a lifeless offense — as it teetered on the .500 mark but had first place still in its sights. It ended with the Mets landing that key bat and beginning their surge to the NL East title and, ultimately, the pennant. In between...
In 2015 with the season hanging on by a thread, the Mets went out and made a couple of moves. The most notable of course was Yoenis Cespedes, however the first of those deals was to bring in utility man Kelly Johnson. Johnson was a good pickup for the Mets as he got some big hits in big spots, and hit .250/.304/.414 with five home runs and 13 RBIs in 128 at-bats. At the end of the season he...
New York Mets General Manager, Sandy Alderson, met with reporters at Citi Field on Thursday to discuss the current state of the team. One of the key items Alderson touched on was the fact that he does not foresee the team adding a position player prior to the start of spring training unless it is on a minor league deal, as reported by Adam Rubin of ESPN. With the team currently focused on...
For the second consecutive season in 2016, the New York Mets traded for Kelly Johnson when they were in need of a super utility type player. As Johnson remains on the open market, it is worth wondering if the team yet again may have a need for the versatile player. Jonson has always seemed to be a clutch player while with the Mets, delivering some key hits to propel the team to victory. He has...
Clutch hitting machine, Kelly Johnson did it again on Friday night as the Mets beat the Braves by a score of 6-4. With the team tying the game up in the eighth inning, Johnson came to the plate with the opportunity to put them ahead. Kelly of course would rip a double down the right-field line, allowing the go-ahead run to score against his former team. He could not have been happier for the hit...
Yoenis Cespedes set Citi Field on fire with a walk off homerun in the bottom of the 10th to bring the New York Mets even with the slumping Miami Marlins in the Wild Card standings, just 2.5 games behind the front-running St. Louis Cardinals. Returning to the line-up after missing Sunday’s painful loss, Cespedes and his questionable quad gave the Mets a much needed 2-1 win, proving that a trip...
Kelly Johnson just always seems to have a knack for getting some clutch hits for this team. Saturday night was no different, putting the final dagger into the Phillies in a 12-1 blowout. Johnson would be called upon to pinch-hit for Noah Syndergaard with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning. He would reward Terry Collins with his fifth career grand slam. The homer was his ninth...
In his first start with his former team, Jon Niese appeared to be the antidote missing from the Mets pitching rotation, until the 4th inning reared it’s ugly head. Sailing through the first three innings, Niese stifled the D’backs with cutters in the 80’s until Rickie Weeks, Jr. and Yasmany Tomas took him back-to-back deep, resulting in a 13-5 crushing defeat in the desert. In the bottom of the...
Kelly Johnson did the unthinkable last night, hitting a two-run game tying blast in the bottom of the ninth inning. Hope arose throughout Citi Field that our Metropolitans would somehow find a way to win this game. That same hope though died in the 12th inning. In what was Johnson’s biggest hit since returning to the Mets, it all went to waste as the Mets fell by a score of 3-2. The team...
