There are times when it’s tough to be a Mets fan. Perhaps you remember when the Mets held a commanding seven-game lead with 17 games to play in 2007, and then collapsed to their rival from down the Turnpike. Or perhaps you recall 2008, when the Amazin’s held a 3.5 game lead in September with only 17 games to play, before becoming the first team ever to blow a 3.5-game lead in...
The 2018 New York Mets’ season is barely underway and there is already a marked difference — and feeling — between the Terry Collins regime and the era of Mickey Callaway. If you look at the Opening Day roster for New York, you will notice that a couple surprising players made the team. Jacob Rhame and Phillip Evans, both long shots to make the Mets 25-man roster, earned spots with...
The New York Mets announced this afternoon that they have placed catcher Travis d’Arnaud on the 10-day disabled list with a bone bruise on his right wrist. Travis has a splint on and is going to rest for a week before resuming baseball activities. He is hitting .203/.288/.475 with four home runs and 16 RBI in 66 plate appearances in 2017. Travis hadn’t played since leaving the game...
Tonight I discuss how the incidents of the week exposes the Mets front office and field staff as lacking leadership. Why was Matt Harvey unprepared? Didn’t the Mets know there was a problem two days before? Why did they tell him at 10 am he was starting at 1 pm? How could the team and training staff allow Yoenis Cespedes to take the field with a bad hamstring? Why didn’t they just...
Team sources have told Marc Carig of Newsday, that the Mets plan to put RHP Seth Lugo on the disabled list to begin the season and that RHP Rafael Montero will make the Opening Day roster. Manager Terry Collins told reporters on Friday that Lugo was dealing with arm fatigue during his last start which may have been due to the heavy workload of pitching deep in to the World Baseball Classic. He...
Before the Mets defeated the Tigers 5-2 on Sunday, Jay Bruce fielded grounders at first base for the first time since he arrived to camp in Port St. Lucie. Manager Terry Collins was on hand to watch Bruce perform and talked about it after the game. “I liked everything I saw today. It looks like he’s got the athleticism, he’s got the hands, he’s got the arm angle,” Collins said. “He...
Kristie Ackert of the NY Daily News caught up with Mets GM Sandy Alderson on Sunday after the team’s first full-squad workout of the Spring, and he had some very straightforward things to say about the upcoming season. “We’re all-in here,” he said about a payroll that is nearing $160 million dollars. “I think it’s a credit to ownership that our payroll is as high as it is now given...
For a second straight day, Mets closer Jeurys Familia was excused from the team’s morning workouts at Tradition Field and left camp early on Saturday due to a personal matter and he is not expected to return until Monday. A report by Mike Puma of the New York Post says that the absence is related to his case with MLB which continues to investigate his arrest on domestic violence charges...
Neil Walker told reporters that after seriously deliberating his situation and considering the advice of several doctors, he made the difficult decision to end his season and have surgery to repair the herniated disc in his back which also caused numbing in one of his toes. The surgery typically has a three-month recovery, and Walker said he wrestled with the decision because he wanted...
Jacob deGrom will return to the rotation on Friday when the New York Mets open up a three game series against the Washington Nationals. Originally schedule to pitch tonight against the Miami Marlins, the Mets opted to give him and additional four days of rest after back to back rough outings. In his last two starts, deGrom has given up 13 earned runs on 25 hits including three home runs in 9.2...
MMO Fan Shot by Andy Love, Originally Published on Fair and Unbalanced Daniel Murphy’s historic playoff performance last year carried the Mets into the World Series. In the Mets’ 4-game sweep of the Cubs in the League Championship Series, Murph batted over .500, with four home runs, a double, six runs batted in and six runs scored. Including the final two games of the Division...
Despite losing 3 out of 4 to the division rival Washington Nationals, the New York Mets did achieve a significant milestone as they enter the All Star break. With two home runs on Sunday, the Mets set a new franchise record for most homers in the first-half with 122, besting the previous mark of 120 by the 2006 club. It was Jose Reyes who accounted for both homers on Sunday, a pair of solo shots...
