If a pitcher can be deemed “major league” after two starts, Matt Harvey would seem to be it. His lifetime mark has dropped to 1-1, which isn’t an accurate reflection of how well he pitched against the Giants Tuesday night and — whatever we think of the usefulness of pitchers’ won-lost records — probably doesn’t [...]
 
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 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  .500, Bill Denehy, Dick Selma, Matt Harvey, Sandy Alderson, Scott Hairston, Tim Lincecum, Tom Seaver, Trades “He slept, he stole, he was rude to the customers. Still, there goes the best damned employee a convenience store ever had.” I doubt there’ll ever be much nostalgia for the Francisco Rodriguez era of New York Mets baseball, an epoch officially declared over in the minutes following the National League’s second [...] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Frankie Rodriguez, Relief Pitching, Trades Being of inferior genetic stock, I don’t have the faintest idea what it must be like to be a major-league baseball player, blessed with amazing hand-eye coordination and fast-twitch muscles and everything else I lack. But I’m willing to edge not very far out on a limb to say this: It must be awesome being Jose [...] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Chris Cannizzaro, Jose Reyes, Trades Jeff Francoeur is suddenly a Texas Ranger, in the leaderly company of Alex Cora. Rod Barajas is a happily homestanding Los Angeles Dodger. Jason Bay is a dizzy denizen of the Disabled List, perhaps wishing life worked as it does in the cartoons and that if he could just slam his face into another outfield [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clubhouse Chemistry, Jeff Francoeur, Joaquin Arias, Lucas Duda, Trades Two annual rituals of the baseball season cross paths in the middle of every Met June: the instinctive recollection of monumental trades that took place this time of year in years gone by and the reappearance, via clever scheduling nobody asked for, of former friends and foes who now wear American League garb. It seems [...] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, 2006 Mets, Anniversaries, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Berenyi, Corey Patterson, Dan Norman, Dave Kingman, Doug Flynn, Interleague Play, Juan Samuel, Managers, Manny Acta, Nick Markakis, Pat Zachry, Paul Siebert, Sluggo, Steve Henderson, Tom Seaver, Trades, Ty Wigginton Welcome to a special Wednesday edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1989 Mets, Flashback Friday, Jeff Musselman, Mookie Wilson, Trades Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or not, here it comes. No deal [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, Flashback Friday, Frank Viola, Trades Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or not, here it comes. I didn’t [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, Flashback Friday, Juan Samuel, Lenny Dykstra, Roger McDowell, Trades |
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