I still don’t feel comfortable with John Maine. Yes, the results have been better against St. Louis and Atlanta (9 innings 4 runs), but he continues to hang around 88mph, topping out at 90, and throwing only 50% of his pitches for strikes. This is not a recipe for success and more importantly, I agree […]

For all the criticism the Mets starting rotation has received Mike Pelfrey, John Maine, and Oliver Perez all have benchmarks of being solid pitchers. No one had a problem with these three behind Johan Santana in 2008, or when Perez and Maine combined for 30 wins in 2007. There is little doubt, barring injury, that […]

It looks like the Mets will sign John Smoltz, and rely on numerous in house candidates for the rotation. Personally, I wanted Ben Sheets. As I predicted, it was going to take about $10 million dollars plus incentives to sign the righty. All winter we have told fans the Mets did not want to take […]

Regardless of what you are hearing about Carlos Delgado there should be red flags regarding his hip injury. Best case scenario is Delgado returns by August 1st. Even if he does what can you honestly expect from him in terms of his defensive mobility and offensive power production? Delgado without home run power is not […]

- The Buffalo Bisons have the worst record in minor league baseball. Despite the win yesterday they are 3-18 on the season. Dillon Gee got rain shortened complete game. In seven innings he game up only four hits and a run. Wily Mo Pena raised his batting average to .400 - Jonathan Niese made strides […]

Freddy Garcia, Livan Hernandez, Tim Redding, Brandon Knight, and Nelson Figueroa. These are pitchers that have, or very well might in the near future, pitch for the Mets this season. Let’s take a time machine and think back to last year. Darrell Rasner, Sidney Ponson, Dan Giese, and Carl Pavano all started games for the […]

1. Fernando Martinez - OF - Triple-A Buffalo 2. Wilmer Flores - SS - Low-A Savannah 3. Brad Holt - SP - High-A St Lucie 4. Jon Niese - SP - Triple-A Buffalo 5. Jefry Marte - 3B - Low-A Savannah 6. Jenrry Mejia - SP - High-A St Lucie 7. Reese Havens - SS […]

Howard Megdal has been spending the week down in Florida. He has had an opportunity to catch the Mets up close and tonight he is going to give us his perspective. Hear Howard’s take on the starting rotation, final roster spots, and some of the players that impressed him the most. Listen live at 4:30 […]

According to a story on nypost.com, the Mets have released veteran relief pitcher Duaner Sanchez. Sanchez has never been same pitcher since that terrible cab accident in 2006 while in Miami. Many people feel Sanchez’ injury was the key ingredient to missing out on a World Series appearance. At the time of the injury, Sanchez was […]

On Mets.com the Mets appeared to have released uniform numbers for the 2009 season for all of the players under “active roster”, as well as some of the non-roster-invitees. Here are the uniform numbers for new guys, as well as returning players who may have changed. Rocky Cherry -30 Sean Green - 48 Brandon Knight […]