The gang over at the Kult of Mets Personalities scored a great guest, Hall of Famer and current owner of the Texas Rangers, Nolan Ryan. Of course, we all know that Ryan started his career with the Mets. In five seasons he was 29-38 with a 3.58 ERA. The deal that sent Ryan to California for Jim Fregosi is [...]

Today is Labor Day and it’s the unofficial end of summer. School starts tomorrow, the NFL starts next Sunday, and there will be no more long weekends in the Hamptons. Should baseball end as well? Longtime journalist Frank Deford believes so. Last week, he wrote a piece for NPR where he proposes a 140 game scheduled and [...]

Update: 6:00 AM on August 30th – As Chuck Johnson and Beyond the Boxscore pointed out, Ogando is not a rookie as he had 114 days of service time. My calculation was off, and Fangraphs should not have him listed with the “rookies.” Ivan Nova won his 14th ballgame yesterday, which I believe puts him in [...]

The Ubaldo Jimenez rumor mill continues to turn as teams like Boston and Cincinnati are now connected to the Colorado ace. We reported here on Friday morning the price for Jimenez is steep, as it would likely cost the Yankees their top positional prospect (Montero) and two of the Killer B’s. Ivan Nova was injured last night during [...]

Nearly seven years later Scott Kazmir still is a topic of conversation around here. Dealt to Tampa Bay for Victor Zambrano in the infamous July 31st, 2004 deal, Kazmir has been the ultimate “what if” for Mets fans since. This trend continued after Kazmir’s season debut that resulted in 1.2 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, [...]

The biggest surprise of the offseason has been the amount of A level spending on B and C level talent. Put aside the contracts of Carl Crawford and Jayson Werth, but focus more on the bullpen, which I believe is the most risky commodity in baseball. It was just last year that Houston GM Ed [...]

Brandon Tierney of ESPN Radio reported on the “Wheelhouse” tonight that Anaheim may be ready to dump some of their veterans. He believes the Yankees might be able to reacquire Hideki Matsui at the trade deadline. With all the talk of Adam Dunn, Matsui might be a more reasonable acquisition to beef up the offense. [...]

All in all, it was a good offseason week for the Mets, Johan Santana’s return to the mound and the re-signing of Fernando Tatis are positive developments. Santana gives his team all he has as the ace of the staff, while Tatis, at this point, ceratainly appreciates having the opportunity to wear a major-league uniform [...]

A while back I had Dayn Perry of Foxsports on my WGBB show. We were, at the time, talking about his newly released book “Winners: How Good Teams Become Great Ones.” Dayn grew up a Cardinals fan, and we talked about how winning in the modern game becomes very difficult with a team that lacks [...]

Every deal the Mets make these days creates hysteria of epic proportions. Last season the Mets were exposed for the lack of depth they had. Already their starting centerfielder has gone down with an injury this year. The only capable replacement, before today, was Angel Pagan. Their other outfielders, Cory Sullivan and Jeremy Reed, took [...]

Add Gary Matthews Jr. to the list of individuals who may be swapped for Luis Castillo. Many believe moving his 2 year $12 million dollar contract is the key for spending this offseason. Now that Jeff Wilpon is learning that shopping at the top shelf of free agency is expensive, but provides better return, moving [...]

I’ve been hearing some interesting chatter from down Tampa way that the Yankees “might” explore signing none other than long time nemesis Chone Figgins. Figgins is a very good player who could help lots of teams, but he doesn’t seem to be a good fit in the Bronx, simply for the fact that there really [...]

Final Score Yankees 5, Anaheim 2 7 wins down, 4 more to go for “Girardi’s Minions.” It was a night of exaltation and jubilation at the “New House.” The Yankees finally got the “Rally Monkey” off their backs, defeating the Angels 5-2 to secure the franchises 40th American League Pennant. It was another vintage performance [...]

Dave Lennon over at Newsday has an interesting column regarding how MLB’s decision making process works when deciding to call a playoff game. Look, I know the weather can be unpredictable, but the forecast last night seemed pretty clear cut. Give MLB credit for incorporating a “team of experts” to help the commissioner make the [...]

Now that tonight’s game has been cancelled we can look at the repercussions. Obviously the Yankees can wrap up the series with Andy Pettitte taking on Joe Saunders tomorrow, but if there is a game 7 two things to remember: 1) John Lackey is now an option. 2) CC Sabathia will be going on normal [...]