Another month and another story about the New York Mets and their dysfunction. This time, it has to do with Met players booing their own fans after success in retaliation for being booed for their poor play. Javier Baez hit a home run in Sunday’s 9-4 win over the Washington Nationals. Baez, who was traded to the Mets from the …
It was a sight for sore eyes for Mets fans Monday night. Pete Alonso returned from the injured list to hit his usual mammoth home run and drove in four runs. Jacob deGrom mowed down the Arizona Diamondbacks by striking out eight and allowing two hits in six scoreless innings. Kevin Pillar made his return by being a defensive replacement …
Here’s the beauty of sports: Things change in a week. One week, you can be bad. Next week, you can be great. In other words, you are not great as you are, and you are not as bad as you are. The Mets started the week by firing Chili Davis as Mets hitting coach and Tom Slater as Mets assistant …
Someone would pay for the Mets’ 11-12 start. It happened after the Mets’ 6-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night at Busch Stadium. The Mets fired hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting coach Tom Slater. Instead of actually hiring a real person of the name Donnie Stevenson, they named minor-league hitting coordinator Hugh Quattlebaum as the …
Mets fans waited for this since Major League Baseball approved Steve Cohen’s purchase of the Mets for $2.5 billion in October. Only a cruel fate forced them to wait for four more days when Opening Day started around the majors on Thursday. Coronavirus plagued several Washington Nationals players that postponed Mets’ Opening Series matchup against the Nationals. Think you waited …
Let’s start with a breakdown by position. The ANCHOR Starting at first base, the anchor of the infield will be “Polar Bear” Pete Alonso. The former 2019 All-Star and rookie of the year will be coming out of spring training with a hot bat. Alonso has hit several homers this spring and is also hitting for average, batting .350. Pete …
Francisco Lindor made his presence felt with the Mets since he entered Port St. Lucie for Spring Training. Who can forget him doing a recreation of Eddie Murphy’s character Prince Akeem from “Coming to America” by wearing an old-school Mets jacket and yelling, “Good morning, my neighbors!”? He sounded like one of us seamheads when he moaned about analytics ruining …
Steve Cohen’s objective was to get a centerpiece player for his signature move as Mets owner whether it’s in free agency or a trade. He accomplished it when his first-year Mets general manager Jared Porter acquired Indians superstar shortstop Francisco Lindor and Indians starter Carlos Carrasco for Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Isaiah Greene, and Josh Wolf. Talk about hitting a …
The Yankees are likely trying to stay under the luxury tax in 2021. With the lack of many notable players signing, I thought it would be good to look at the options and figure out those cost efficient targets that would be a good fit for the Yankees. These options range from free agents to trade candidates as well. Joe …
The internet is plastered with an overload of trade rumors. Sifting through those rumors can be hard, especially when parody accounts are behind them or the fan trade proposals are mistaken for truth. The interesting thing about all these speculations for Yankees fans is that Miguel Andujar is almost always the centerpiece of the trade rumors on the Yankee side …
