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 […]
 
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 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 Sunday was another at least mildly notable first for the still-young 2023 season, and unfortunately I’m not referring to the sophomore-year debut of Francisco Alvarez. Our catcher of the future went one for four, with the one a dunker of an RBI single, while making some good throws to second and one bad one. One […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryan De La Cruz, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Alvarez, Garrett Cooper, Marlins, Starling Marte Because it’s too early for more complex assessments, so far the Mets new season is a stark either-or: They’re either beating up on the Marlins or getting walloped by the Brewers. Monday through Wednesday saw our gray-clad lads off under the roof in Wisconsin, where they spent two days looking gobsmacked while Bernie Brewer went down […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Cody Ross, Daniel Vogelbach, Edward Cabrera, Home Openers, Huascar Brazoban, Marlins, Out of Town Scoreboard, Scoreboards, Tylor Megill Forty-two pitches into his Mets debut, Kodai Senga was in trouble. Our Japanese import, a feel-good story across that far bigger pond for rising from developmental player (the closest equivalent is “low-A cannon fodder”) to three-time All-Star with five rings, had needed 36 pitches just to get through the first against the Marlins: A single, an […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Avisail Garcia, Debuts, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Kodai Senga, Marlins, Pitch Clock, Rob Manfred, Tommy Pham This is the time of firsts, of course. First appearances for Mets old and new. First hits, home runs, stolen bases and, alas, first errors and strikeouts and big chances not converted. First wins — the Mets took care of that category Thursday afternoon — and, nowadays, new additions to the menagerie such as first […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Garrett Cooper, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jeff McNeil, John Curtiss, Jorge Soler, Marlins, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte Baseball’s nothing without poetic license, whether or not Rob Manfred wishes to notarize said document. The Commissioner is intent on engineering a game built for speed. Get it over with already yet seemed the Manfred mandate for Opening Day. Start the pitch timer, throw the ball, quit yer lollygagging. It sounds reasonable in concept. It […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, Drew Smith, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Stallings, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jeff McNeil, Justin Verlander, Marlins, Max Scherzer, Omar Narvaez, Opening Day, Pace of Play, Pitch Clock, Sandy Alcantara, Steve Carlton, T#m Gl@v!ne, The Paper Chase, Time of Game, Wacky Races, Yogi Berra When Yogi Berra died in 2015, Dave Hillman ascended to the role of Oldest Living Met. Yogi Berra is among the most famous baseball figures of the past 75 years, perhaps ever. People still quote Berra, still invoke Berra, still remember Berra. He’s been gone seven years, but his legacy is likely to live on […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1990 Mets, Chuck Carr, Dave Hillman, Marlins, Moment of Silence Carlos Carrasco was bad, inexplicable Mets punching bag Pablo Lopez was good, the Marlins were pesky even by their loathsome standards and the Mets lost a game that had a queasy, out-of-sorts feeling to it from the get-go. And yes, down in D.C. the Braves smacked the crap out of the Nats, and so now […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Frustration, Jacob Stallings, James McCann, Jerry Blevins, JJ Bleday, Marlins, Mr. Met, Pablo Lopez, Pete Alonso, Richard Bleier, Ties, Trevor Williams, Weather The Mets, of late, play two kinds of games: ones in which they lose seemingly winnable affairs in horribly frustrating ways and ones in which they beat the absolute tar out of their opponents without breaking too much of a sweat. We’re a third of the way through September, and I’m not sure I can […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Nardi, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Mark Canha, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Pablo Lopez, Pennant Race A funny thing happened midway through the Mets’ laugher of a victory over the Marlins. The Mets were leading 7-1 at the halfway point of the game, having undressed poor Pablo Lopez in Soilmaster Stadium, and every hitter was on point, from Francisco Lindor continuing to beat all available Marlins like a drum to Patrick Mazeika […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | bad, Don Mattingly, Francisco Lindor, Joey Wendle, Marlins, Pablo Lopez, Soilmaster Stadium, Taijuan Walker |
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