It is the late winter of Tommy Pham, described far and wide as a fourth outfielder when the Mets signed him for the upcoming season. Unnerving spate of rules changes aside, the outfield still contains only three positions. Nobody is every described as a fifth infielder. And second catchers are usually referred to as backup […]
 
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 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Movies, Carlos Beltran, Darin Ruf, Howie Rose, Jeff McNeil, Keith Raad, Late Winter, Matt Allan, Pat McCarthy, T-shirts, Tommy Pham, Wayne Randazzo Welcome to the tenth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Edgardo Alfonzo, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mets of the 2000s, Pedro Martinez, Steve Trachsel Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. It would be an exaggeration to say that Faith and Fear in Flushing exists because the Mets signed Carlos Beltran in January 2005. But it wouldn’t be an enormous exaggeration. In 2005 the Mets already had […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, A Met for All Seasons, Adam Wainwright, Alex Cora, Astros, Carlos Beltran, Julio Franco, Managers, Mike Cameron, Omar Minaya, Yadier Molina Pitchers and catchers reporting hasn’t done much for me for a number of years, which I say not in an effort to get you to feel the same way, but as an admission that I am a flawed human being. Because of course pitchers and catchers doing baseball stuff down in some dull Florida (or even […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Carlos Beltran, Jeff Wilpon, Jeremy Hefner, Jeurys Familia, Luis Rojas, Managers, Port St. Lucie, Spring Training, Yoenis Cespedes Outside it’s cold, misty, and it’s raining. We’ve got a FanFest; who right here’s complaining? Not anybody who thinks it’s sexy that the Mets opened Citi Field on the last Saturday in January for as much baseball as they could possibly produce without benefit of a baseball game. It was the first hopefully annual FanFest in […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2020 Mets, Al Leiter, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Art Shamsky, Articles of Confederation, Carlos Beltran, Dave Foley, Edwin Diaz, FanFest, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jerry Ford, Jerry Maguire, John Hanson, Luis Rojas, Mad Men, Pete Alonso, Proximity, QBC, Queens Baseball Convention, Rainbows, Robinson Cano, Rod Stewart, Steven Matz, Todd Zeile, Truck Day, Turk Wendell “I promoted from within. Promoting from within is very big in my family.” Once upon a time, some team that wasn’t the Mets did something that got the commissioner’s attention, and ultimately the Mets benefited. Maybe it’s déjà vu all over again 54 years later. Summoning the greatest fortune-laden precedent in Mets lore […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Bremen, Brodie Van Wagenen, Carlos Beltran, Felipe Alou, Jesus Alou, Luis Rojas, Matty Alou, Mel Rojas, Mets Managers, Moises Alou, Quality Control, The West Wing “I just can’t wait to rewrite our story.” Baseball is stories as much as it’s statistics; it’s equal parts narrative and numbers; it’s four cups of emotion for every quart of analytics. Baseball is also rules, exceptions and the narrowest of hallways between those two opposing walls. The rules, written and otherwise, have […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Postseason, 2018 Postseason, A.J. Hinch, Alex Cora, Carlos Beltran, Compartmentmalization, FanFest, Jeff Luhnow, Managerial Decisions Gone Awry, Mets Managers, Sign-Stealing The Mets should definitely keep Carlos Beltran as their manager for the coming season. The Mets should definitely replace Carlos Beltran as their manager for the coming season. Major League Baseball did not suspend any of the Astros players for electronic sign-stealing. Major League Baseball singled out Beltran among all players as part of its report on electronic […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Managerial Job Security, Sign-Stealing, Uneasy Answers Welcome to the eighth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Beltran, Ike Davis, Mets of the 2010s, Ruben Tejada, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler It’s early 2005 at something nobody’s ever heard of called Faith and Fear in Flushing. We’re blogging for the first time. We have Carlos Beltran coming to camp for the first time. We have the Washington Nationals coming to the National League East for the first time. Beltran was just an Astro. The Nationals were […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2019 Postseason, 2020 Mets, Carlos Beltran, Davey Martinez, Max Scherzer, Mets Managers, Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman, Stephen Strasburg, World Series Ending |
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