Throughout his 17-year major league career, Moises Alou was one of the most dangerous hitters at the plate. A six-time All-Star with five different teams, Alou posted a career slash of .303/.369/.516 with 2,134 hits and 332 home runs. He twice finished in the top-3 of M.V.P. voting (1994, 98), and took home Silver Slugger Awards in those same seasons. Alou, 53, is one of nineteen players in...
Good Morning, Mets fans! Latest Mets News In a phone interview with the New York Post, David Wright expressed his support for Pete Alonso and his leadership potential and said that Alonso could be the next Mets’ captain. According to Michael Clair of MLB.com, The Strokes wrote a song that was inspired by a Mets loss. Tim Graham of The Athletic wrote about Dwight Gooden’s relationship...
The Mets announced on Thursday they’eve finalized a multi-year deal with new manager Luis Rojas. They will introduce him at a press conference on Friday at 3:00 p.m. ET at Citi Field. Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen help a presser on Wednesday to tell media that the team had chosen Rojas as their next manager and they were negotiating a multi-year deal. Carlos Beltran and the Mets agreed to...
On Saturday, Mike Puma of the New York Post reported that Luis Rojas is no longer being considered for the Mets’ managerial opening. Rojas, 38, is the son of Felipe Alou and brother of former Met Moises Alou and has been a coach in the Mets organization since 2007. Originally, Rojas was a coach in the Dominican Summer League that year, followed by a 2008 campaign where he coached with the...
Luis Rojas Current Position: Mets Quality Control Coach (2019 – present) Age: 9/1/81 (38) Managerial Experience: 2017 – 2018 Binghamton (AA), 2015 – 2016 St. Lucie (A+), 2012 – 2014 Savannah (A), 2011 Gulf Coast When you are a part of the Alou family, baseball is in your blood. That is espeically the case with Luis Rojas, who is the son of former MLB player and Mets coach...
By John Jackson Good morning Mets fans! The New York Mets (83-76) split their four-game series with the Miami Marlins (56-103) after dropping Thursday’s contest at Citi Field by a score of 4-2. They now close out the season with a three-game home series versus the Atlanta Braves (97-62). Latest Mets News Marcus Stroman (9-13, 3.23 ERA) will take the mound for the Mets one more time this...
Sometimes, being a Mets fan is awesome. Most of the time, it’s excruciating beyond belief. This past season was the latter for countless reasons, but for fans too young to remember 2007, it might not be the worst season in recent history. The 2006 season ended with a loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 of the NLCS. Some fans still can’t forgive Carlos Beltran for watching that...
One of the things that I love best about Gary, Keith and Ron, is that they can make their coverage of the Mets so entertaining and educating too, all while remaining objective at the same time. Their passion for the Mets is unquestioned and they do feel our pain. It’s their objectivity that puts them among the best broadcast teams in baseball. Last night during the Mets broadcast, the...
The Buffalo Bisons lost both games of a doubleheader on Sunday, but that wasn’t all they lost. According to Bisons.com, Mets prospect Fernando Martinez suffered an apparent knee injury in the first game and did not play in the second game. Martinez played the entire first game, but could be seen nursing his right knee in the field and out of the batter’s box. Oberkfell said he...
Michael Salfino of SNY.tv wrote an interesting article yesterday on the Mets former number one prospect, Fernando Martinez. In it he chronicles the decline of F-Mart’s prospect status over the years, but is not yet ready to count him out. Since 2007, he’s moved down on Baseball America’s Top 100 list from the 20th to 30th to 77th position. Now, according an e-mail from BA...
Happy Saturday Mets fans and welcome to my second spring installment of Hot or Not. We’ve seen our pitching staff banged up and we’ve seen Jon Niese and Bobby Parnell show why they should be watched.The GoodFor any Mets fan, hearing that your ace may miss their Opening Day start is never a good thing. Then you remember that they’re playing the Reds. And then you say to...
Welcome back to the third installment of Hot or Not, the only list where you want to be in the hot seat. This week, I’ve had to consider many things besides from a player’s performance; otherwise the whole team would be Cold As Ice.Hot as FireMike Pelfrey: El Duque can take as long as he wants to recover thanks to Pelfrey. Although his record doesn’t reflect it, the Big Pelf...
