NOTE: This plan is without Jose Reyes. I would like to have Jose Reyes back, but here I will be looking at an alternative: life without Jose. First, let’s start with the players with guaranteed contracts for next season: Johan Santana $24MM Jason Bay $18.3MM David Wright $15.25MM R.A. Dickey $4.75MM D.J. Carrasco $1.2MM Now, …
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2011: The season in review
The Mets ushered out the 2011 season in an afternoon win against the Reds on Tuesday. They finished up with a 77-85 record, “earning” them fourth place in the NL East, worse than what was expected by most at the beginning of the year. Today, we’ll look into the big headlines of this season, analyze …
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Mets battle back, fall to Nationals in ninth 8-7
Coming off a solid 7-3 victory in D.C., the Mets sent Dillon Gee to the hill to take on rookie Tom Milone. Gee started off the game by giving up a lead off home run to Ian Desmond down the left field line after a scoreless first by the Mets. After a scoreless second for …
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Dickey solid as Met bats come alive early, beat Nats 7-3
The Mets knew coming into this game that they had to score early off Ross Detwiler. The Nationals have a bullpen ERA of 3.26, sixth in baseball. They needed to capitalize early, and they did just that. The Mets started off the top of the first with Jose Reyes reaching on an infield single. Then, …
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Phils rough up Niese, beat Mets 9-4
Jonathon Niese really labored through four innings tonight against the Phillies, and was pounded for eight runs on ten hits. This was by far, his worst outing of the year. His four innings pitched and eight runs allowed were both season highs. He dropped to 11-11 on the season with this loss. However, Niese was …
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Padres pound Dickey early and Parnell late fight off comebacks, beat Mets 9-5
After two straight late game comebacks by the Mets the past two nights, the Mets finally came back down to Earth with a 6-4 loss tonight to the San Diego Padres. Coming off a Lucas Duda walk-off single two nights ago, and a Ruben Tejada game winning walk in the eighth inning of last night’s …
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Mets Headlines
- Standings, Beat Reports and What’s on Tap for Today
- Morning Briefing: Moneyball players?
- Michael Baron talking Mets baseball on MTR Radio
- Matt Harvey keeps Mets in game, despite not having his best fastball
- Matt Harvey keeps Mets in game, despite not having his best fastball
- Ankiel making an impact early in Mets tenure
- Ike Davis' struggles continue, but he will not be demoted before Friday's game
- Even when he's off, Harvey still good
- Ike Davis likely to be a Met at least through the weekend
- The series in Metrics (Mets vs. Reds)