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The Mets May Not Contend, But At Least They’re Trying To Be Fan-Friendly
Some brilliant mind in the Mets’ hierarchy, or maybe a few, decided that if the Mets weren’t going to spend any money this year and even pretend to be contenders, they would have to appease their fans in a new and different way.So, what we now have are the spend-nothing but exceedingly fan-friendly New York Mets. Mets’ Bloggers i.e. the voice of the Mets fan, have been invited...
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December 28, 2010
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I am no longer posting on this site. All of my posts can now be found on mikesmets.com
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January 05, 2009
Great Mets' Trades of The Past - Hernandez for Allen and Ownbey
As it becomes apparent that the Mets, as currently constituted, will not run away with the NL East this year, Mets' fans are all anxiously anticipating this year's upcoming deals feeling certain that Omar Minaya will plunge into the trade market. Of course, Mets history has given us many more bad tra...
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May 13, 2008
Amateur Draft Hits And Misses - Part 3
1996 - Robert Stratton. A big, strong powerful hitter who spent lots of years in the minors hitting the long ball and doing little else. Surprisingly, never earned a big league shot. Eric Milton and Gil Meche were taken several picks later.1997 - Geoff Goetz. Sixth pick. Mediocre minor le...
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April 20, 2008
Your Source For Historical Mets Posts
Surprisingly (to me anyway), since I stopped adding new posts, my daily traffic has remained about the same. So, for those of you still looking for my posts on the early-day Mets, I have streamlined the site to include all of those along with what I consider some of my better entries about the curren...
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April 19, 2008
Great Mets' Trades of The Past - Hernandez for Allen and Ownbey
As it becomes apparent that the Mets, as currently constituted, will not run away with the NL East this year, Mets' fans are all anxiously anticipating this year's upcoming deals feeling certain that Omar Minaya will plunge into the trade market. Of course, Mets history has given us many more bad tra...
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April 19, 2008
Amateur Draft Hits And Misses - Part 2
Continuing my look at Mets' #1 selections year-by-year :1980 - Darryl Strawberry. #1 pick in draft. Apparently, there was some thought given to taking Darnell Coles or Billy Beane, but in the end, the Mets went with the consensus and selected Strawberry, and it turned out to be the right ...
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April 10, 2008
My Reaction To The Milledge Trade
When I first heard about this deal, I was disgusted. I liked Lastings Milledge from the time he first appeared in a major league game for the Mets and felt he brought enthusiasm and excitement to the team. I saw him taking over rightfield fulltime in 2008 and becoming one of the team's impressive cor...
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March 10, 2008
Old Time Mets - John Stephenson
If Johnny Stephenson is remembered at all by fans of the early Mets, it's as the last out of Jim Bunning's perfect game. He was so overmatched in striking out, the Mets might as well have plucked a fan out of the stands at random and asked him to get a hit off Bunning. At the time, if I remember corr...
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March 02, 2008
Old Time Mets - Jim Hickman
If Marv Throneberry symbolized the bumbling incompetence of the early Mets, Rod Kanehl the everyman quality, Ed Kranepool the hope for the future, and Roger Craig the frustration, nobody symbolized all of these qualities wrapped into one player the way Jim Hickman did.If Al Jackson was the Mets' best...
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March 01, 2008
The 25th Man
The Mets figure to carry 12 pitchers, so with a regular at each position, that leaves 5 reserve spots on the team. Backup catcher Ramon Castro and outfielder Endy Chavez are certain to make the team. It's also extremely likely that veteran utility men Damion Easley (righthanded hitter) and Marlon And...
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February 21, 2008
The Last Post
After 3 years and 105 posts, I have decided that this will be my last. To my small group of regular readers, I thank you for your support. I just didn't feel that a Blog that still draws an average of about 20 hits per day, and less than one feedback comment a month was worth keeping up. In spite of what I thought would be helpful exposure on two other excellent Mets blogs, Mike...
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February 21, 2008
Post Mortem
Completing one of the worst late-season collapses in baseball history, one day after temporarily exciting the fans with one of the best games you will ever see any team play, the Mets responded with a truly awful game that was over almost as soon as it began.Tom Glavine has been called a big-game pit...
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February 20, 2008
One More Piece Needed To Complete The Puzzle ?
Johan Santana is here, and Omar Minaya has declared that he now has the team that will go to spring training. OK, except I think the Mets may need one more player, at least to give them some options about how they want to structure the bench. Right now, the bench is almost certain to include Endy Cha...
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February 15, 2008
I Have A Feeling It's Going To Be A Rough Off-Season
Okay. So, the Mets need 2 catchers, a second baseman, a starting left fielder, a lefthanded hitting outfielder in reserve, at least one starting pitcher maybe 2, at least 2 relief pitchers, and a couple of bench players and pinch-hitters. Some or most of these can be solved by re-signing some of the ...
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February 11, 2008
Constructing The 2008 Mets - The Conservative Approach
How aggressive will Omar Minaya be in trying to assemble the 2008 team ? Will he really go after big-name players in trades and big-money free agents ? Will he put all his best prospects on the table to get some proven talent ? Or will he take a more conservative approach ?The ultra-conservative appr...
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February 09, 2008
A Change of Plans
It was my intention to begin a series of posts detailing the Mets' needs for 2008 and some proposed solutions i.e. trades and free agent signings, but after reading a lot of other bloggers' (as well as paid sportswriters') suggestions, I decided it would be a waste of time. There are at least 100, if...
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February 09, 2008
The Johan Santana Saga
After their devastating collapse in 2007, it was apparent that the Mets needed to do something big to get an ace pitcher to lead the rotation. It soon became known that one of the best, Minnesota's Johan Santana, would be on the trading block because he was entering the final year of his contract and...
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February 04, 2008
Congratulations, Omar
Well, Omar Minaya waited out the Twins and got the prize he's been after all along, Johan Santana. The offer on the table for weeks turned out to be the one that was accepted without including Fernando Martinez, Ryan Church, Aaron Heilman, Jorge Sosa, or for that matter anyone who figured to help the...
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February 01, 2008
Trades From The Past - Bernard Gilkey
When discussing the outstanding trades the Mets have made over the years, the acquisition of Bernard Gilkey from the Cardinals is usually forgotten. In part, this could be because Gilkey really had only one good year for the Mets - although it was a terrific one, and also because even with Gilkey, th...
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January 31, 2008
Mets Trades Of The Past - The Tom Seaver Trade
So much has been written about the 1977 trade that sent Tom Seaver, perhaps baseball's best pitcher at the time, to the Cincinnati Reds, that even those Mets fans who are too young to remember it have almost certainly read about it. No doubt, as history has told us, a clash between Seaver and Mets' C...
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January 30, 2008
Mets-Twins Deal Seems A Natural
Now that the Yorvit Torrealba negotiations have fallen through and Luis Castillo appears signed, it's time for the Mets to turn their attention to pitching and catching. A while back, we heard that the Twins were interested in Carlos Gomez, which probably led to some thinking that maybe Gomez could b...
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January 30, 2008
You Gotta Have A Catcher - Part 1
With both Paul LoDuca and Ramon Castro eligible for free agency, the Mets clearly have a void to fill at catcher. Whether they choose to re-sign either or both, go after another free agent, or make a trade, catcher is one position where the Mets can't stand pat. With no young catcher in the farm syst...
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January 28, 2008
Winter Meetings Preview - Part 1
Omar Minaya will be heading to the Winter Meetings with the primary mission of upgrading the starting pitching. Although the bullpen, a lefty-hitting outfielder and possibly a righthanded bat for the bench and occasional duty at first base remain among the possible upgrades that Minaya may seek, star...
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January 28, 2008
Winter Meetings Preview - Part 3
The latest series of rumors indicate that the Mets have almost no shot at Johan Santana without giving up Jose Reyes. Unless they get another team involved that could bring them back a quality shortstop, this makes a Santana deal extremely unlikely for the Mets.Apparently, Omar Minaya will try to get...
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January 27, 2008
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