There’s a post to be written about how the rest of the season is a chance for David Peterson and Tylor Megill — your last two Mets starters down in Baltimore — to show they belong in the starting rotation, to demonstrate that they’re more than just fill-ins for now-traded Hall of Famers, to add […]
 
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 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Peterson, Disappointment, Orioles, Tylor Megill James McCann destroyed the team that sent him away, going 3 for 3 with 5 RBIs and even stealing a base. That’s the headline, but the punchline comes courtesy of our Metsmerized buddy Mike Mayer: Only two catchers have ever had at least 3 hits, 5 RBIs, a walk and a steal in a game against […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, David Peterson, Francisco Alvarez, James McCann, Josh Walker, Mark Vientos, Orioles, Starling Marte Every season includes mathematical milestones that take me by surprise when I look up and notice them. Has this much of the season already flown by? It usually starts at the 16-game mark. We’re barely two weeks removed from Opening Day and, bam, 10% of the season has disappeared. We do this only fifteen more […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Danny Mendick, Fountains, Interleague Play, Jonathan Arauz, Josh Walker, Position Players Pitching, Royals, Spiritual Forfeits 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 Having ten days earlier properly commemorated the 50th anniversary of making Flushing my recurring personal destination, I opened my second half-century of going to Mets games Sunday afternoon by taking a left field Promenade Box eye’s view of The Great Justin Verlander proving effective enough to a) quell the Washington Nationals by a score of […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Beautiful Days for Ballgames, Billy Pierce, Conversations, Dilson Herrera, Eras, Football, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Pedro Borbon, Repurposing, Trade Deadline 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 It’s not quite Max Flack and Cliff Heathcote switching teams between games of a doubleheader, but spare a moment of consideration for David Robertson, who was a Met when it started raining and a Marlin when it stopped. That’s a strange one. A strange one, but probably not the only oddity heading our way: There was a […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Bromstad, David Robertson, Mackenzie Gore, Max Scherzer, MLB At Bat, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Radio, Reed Garrett, Trade Deadline So much for well-intentioned inertia. The fourth-place Mets aren’t content to do nothing. Fourth-place they appear resigned to, but they’ll be damned if they don’t keep busy while maintaining it. David Robertson was not looking to be moved, yet moved he’s been, to his seventh major league team, traded late Thursday night to the Miami […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Business, Catch Me If You Can, Closers, David Robertson, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Marco Vargas, Mark Canha, Marlins, Ronald Hernandez, Trade Deadline, Trades In one of the climactic scenes of the first season of Mad Men, ad agency head Bert Cooper instructed impatient Pete Campbell, by way of exonerating a man originally named Dick Whitman for shadily assuming the identity of the late Don Draper, “The Japanese have a saying: A man is whatever room he is in, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, 2017 Mets, 2024 Mets, David Robertson, Mad Men, Moneyball, Ronny Mauricio, Rooms, Trade Deadline, Well-Intentioned Inertia |
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