The 2026 Mets are nobody’s genie, but they are on occasion capable of granting relatively small baseball wishes. Sometimes it takes them a while. When July was becoming August, and almost everybody you heard might be traded was getting traded, you might have wished “almost” could be upgraded to “everybody”. Specifically, Luis Robert, Jr., began […]
 
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 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cedric Mullins, Christopher Morel, Cristian Pache, FIP, Luis Robert Jr., Manny Machado, Mark Vientos, Old Friends, Pitcher Wins, Rays, Robert Stock, Steven Matz, Wishes An oddity as this odd Mets season winds down is that I have remind myself Andy Green‘s top priority isn’t winning games. That’s always welcome, but not job one — job one is to conduct a quasi-instructional camp, in which new guys and new situations get tried out to see what might work in some […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Austin Warren, Bo Bichette, Brewers, Christopher Morel, David Hamilton, Extra Innings, Francisco Lindor, Jefry Yan, Jonathan Pintaro, Kyle Harrison, Luis Robert Jr., Nate Lavender, Relief Pitching, Trevor Megill, William Contreras, Zac Thornton I’ll grant you that we’re grading the post-deadline 2026 Mets on the curve, but still: Aside from the ending, that was a fine way to spend an afternoon. You had Nolan McLean, with the movement on his pitches baffling the White Sox and sometimes McLean himself. I’m pretty sure what he did to Andrew Benintendi with […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Andrew Benintendi, Carson Benge, Daniel Duarte, Dedniel Nunez, Grant Taylor, Hagen Smith, Kodai Senga, Luis Robert Jr., Miguel Vargas, Nolan McLean, Tristan Peters, Walkoff Losses, White Sox I wasn’t wishing any ill will toward Huascar Brazobán when he came into Saturday night’s game to face his former team, beyond hoping his former team would rough him up gently. It was the seventh inning of a game the Mets were leading, 7-5, an evening pervaded by the sense that this game could be going […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carson Benge, Christian Scott, Family Feud, Huascar Brazoban, Luis Robert Jr., Luis Torrens, Mimosas, Old Friends, The Carpenters, The DH Scam, Vienna Beef For most of my life, my relationship to needles has been a matter of bracing for the absolute worst and reacting to them as if they definitely are. Once in a while, if a medical professional is coming at my anatomy in a spot where I’m not used to it, I will still yelp and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Interleague Play, Jefry Yan, Luis Robert Jr., Needles, Sean Manaea, Teammates with State Capital Names, White Sox, Yelps, Yowls Some recaps go for analysis, others go for trying to capture what it was like to be in the moment. And we’ll do a little of that. But sometimes you just want to record what happened and be amazed. So: Combine the top of the first and the top of the second of Monday night’s Mets-Padres […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Bo Bichette, Bob Henley, Carson Benge, Catchers, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Alvarez, Jackson Merrill, Jake Cronenworth, Luis Campusano, Luis Rengifo, Luis Robert Jr., Manny Machado, Nolan McLean, Padres, Sublime Outfield Defense, Throws, Ty France, Walker Buehler, Xander Bogaerts, Young Outfields The 2025 Mets were lousy, basically without interruption, from June until they expired in Miami, with the date on the carton confirming that sour-milk taste you’d been trying to convince yourself wasn’t there really had been. It’s hard to single out games that stuck in the craw when pretty much all of them did, but […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Abimelec Ortiz, Andy Green, Bob Murphy, Brett Baty, Carson Benge, Christian Scott, Closers, Howie Rose, Jake Irvin, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Keibert Ruiz, Keith Raad, Kodai Senga, Luis Robert Jr., Luis Torrens, Managers, Nationals, Nolan McLean, Pat McCarthy, Radio, Zac Thornton The Mets seem to have thudded back to Earth after their briefly winged tour of Cleveland and Pittsburgh … or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that a habitually ground-bound team is once again craning its collective neck to peer up at the clouds and wondering what the world looks like to entities […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Bullpen, Dedniel Nunez, Luis Robert Jr., Mike Yastrzemski, Zac Thornton I shouldn’t be surprised, given how baseball is riddled with ironies, and yet I am: A team about to undergo a trade-deadline sea change is playing its best ball of the season. (The transformation is already underway, as the Mets have traded A.J. Minter to the Twins for a pair of prospects: Bruin Agbayani, the 19-year-old […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Billy Amick, Bo Bichette, Brooks Raley, Bruin Agbayani, Carson Benge, Devin Williams, Eury Perez, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Luis Robert Jr., Marlins, Michael Petersen, Trade Deadline, Twins Remember the long-ago ad in which they switched a fancy restaurant’s presumably fancy coffee for Folgers crystals? A similar experiment seemed to have happened in Milwaukee Tuesday night. That was platinum glover Brice Turang looking oddly lethargic on a Carson Benge grounder that wound up bringing in two critical runs, and that was the Milwaukee infield […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Bo Bichette, Brandon Sproat, Brewers, Brice Turang, Carson Benge, Dallas Green, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Jared Young, Luis Robert Jr., Pat Murphy, Zac Thornton |
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