Of all the key offseason hires approved by Steve Cohen, I haven’t seen the name Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong appointed as Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, or whatever title would imply a person has been brought in to help the Mets figure out what to do next. No wonder she’s not in Flushing, […]
 
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 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2023 Mets, David Robertson, Dido, Drew Gilbert, Justin Verlander, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Quick Draw McGraw, Ryan Clifford, Sensible Surrender, Sometimes You Don’t Gotta Believe, South Park, Steve Cohen, Tommy Pham The Original Mets were stocked primarily by a legendarily threadbare expansion draft that left the Mets capable of winning one of every four games they’d play in their first year. With a full season’s experience under their collective belt, the Slightly Less Original Mets took the field for their second year and won eleven more […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2015 Mets, Anthony Recker, Bill Haas, Claude Raymond, Danny Mendick, Dismal Present, Eric Campbell, George Weiss, Jack Fisher, John Mayberry Jr., Jonathan Arauz, Mark Canha, Phil Bickford, Potentially Brighter Future, Rafael Ortega, Reed Garrett, Royals, Special Draft, Steve Cohen, Team History Some days can’t possibly be summed up by one post. So consider this one just the start of a conversation that kicks off tonight but will go on in some form for years. The Mets traded pretty much everybody. Justin Verlander went back to the Astros, where — as I semi-seriously predicted — he’ll now face […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Eppler, Dominic Leone, Embarrassment, Francisco Alvarez, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Rafael Ortega, Royals, Steve Cohen, Tommy Pham, Trade Deadline, Trades So now we know how Max Scherzer‘s conversation with the brass went — it turned out to be an exit interview, as Scherzer is on his way to the Rangers (along with $35.5 million through next year) in return for Luisangel Acuna, whom you probably didn’t know is the younger brother of Ronald Acuna Jr. […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Carlos Carrasco, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Luisangel Acuna, Max Scherzer, Perspective, Reed Garrett, Ronald Acuna Jr., Steve Cohen, Trade Deadline Oh, so we’re back to this again. On Tuesday night your bloggers were reunited at Citi Field and had a wonderful time, which we would have had anyway but was definitely enhanced by the Mets hitting homers by the bushel and David Peterson being unexpectedly competent. Speaking for myself, I left the park with a certain […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brewers, Christian Yelich, Jeff McNeil, Joey Wiemer, Kodai Senga, Steve Cohen, T.J. McFarland, Tommy Pham On Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh the Mets … won a baseball game. That’s it. They played a baseball game and it ended with more runs for the Mets than their opponents, so they won. That shouldn’t be particularly noteworthy, yet alone breathtaking, yet after the frustrations of Toronto and the horrors of Atlanta and the hungover […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Dauri Moreta, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Pirates, Steve Cohen The good news: The Mets fixed the New York-Presbyterian patch, the one that was unreadable and looked vaguely like an ad for the Phillies, Dunkin’ Donuts or some nightmarish chimera of those two entities. It annoyed Steve Cohen, and when you’re Steve Cohen and you’re annoyed, people hop to it. The other good news: Nope, that […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Jimmy Yacabonis, Jose Butto, Josiah Gray, Luis Guillorme, Nationals, Steve Cohen, Uniforms Just a reminder that while we wait for Edwin Diaz to rehabilitate from his WBC celebration injury, next weekend brings the first of fourteen Klassik Kloser Saturdays, Presented by Kwikset, the Official Provider of Deadbolts, Knobs and Handlesets of the New York Mets. That’s a mouthful, but closing out games in 2023 will likely require […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Klassik Kloser Saturdays, Kwikset, Relief Pitching, Rules Changes, Steve Cohen, Utter Foolishness, Veteran Presence It’s one thing to proceed through an offseason confident that the Mets aren’t “out” on any free agent in whom they have legitimate interest. It’s a different thing from the days of “we signed a hitter, so we probably have to scrounge for a pitcher,” and it’s a welcome departure from those days. It’s another […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Carlos Correa, Franco Harris, Free Agency, Giants, Jim Fregosi, Mets Third Basemen, Moment of Silence, Omar Narvaez, Pending Physicals, Steve Cohen On Monday of last week, the Mets signed at top dollar a pitcher on track to land in the Hall of Fame, a pitcher still at the top of his game, a pitcher at the top of the game overall. It made us mostly forget that our best pitcher from the previous nine seasons, our […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Bay City Rollers, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Chris Bassitt, David Robertson, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Joely Rodriguez, Jose Quintana, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Serious Business, Seth Lugo, Steve Cohen, Taijuan Walker, Trevor May, Trevor Williams |
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