Tuesday night was a familiar scene. The Mets looked in position to win a memorable game against a heated rival, only to shoot themselves in the foot with a combination of poor pitching, questionable managerial decisions, and missed opportunities at the plate. In the end, they lost another winnable game and their slide down the standings continued. This has been the script in basically all of the...
Options aren’t everything, and the Mets should know that. In a report about the Mets’ interest in free-agent lefty reliever Andrew Chafin, SNY’s Andy Martino stated that the Mets would prefer a bullpen arm with options remaining. This would indicate that Chafin and Zach Britton, with whom the Mets have also been linked, are not their preferred targets. It has been widely...
It’s not an easy road anymore. To be fair, it wasn’t ever going to be easy, per se, but now the path to the World Series is… shakier… for these Mets. This weekend the Padres come to town and should the team from Queens prevail, the Mets will travel to Los Angeles to take on the best team in all of baseball. It’s hard not to look ahead to that Dodgers series, after all for most of the season the...
All we hear are rumors and speculation around this time of the year. I love it!I read something interesting this morning from Steve Popper on his blog Amazin Stories. He had some interesting things to say about his conference call with Omar Minaya yesterday, but what really caught my attention was this…As far as right field, Minaya did admit that he’s investigating the free-agent...
