'til the Wheelers come off; the Kiner's Kornerless 2014 New York Mets

As for being a semi-veteran now, Wheeler said he will do his part for whichever rookies in camp need assistance. There are no shortage of folks without major-league experience among pitchers, including Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Rafael Montero, Jeff Walters, Jack Leathersich, Adam Kolarek and Cory Mazzoni.

“I let it be known to some of the other guys that if they need some help with anything, if they have any questions, go ahead and ask me,” Wheeler said.

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/80984/wheel-deal-zack-wants-opening-day-nod

Matt Harvey wants to stay with the big club as he rehabs; Mets not happy

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/81409/mets-cant-force-harvey-to-rehab-in-st-lucie

rip ralph

long live 58 year old bartolo colon

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhCUo0fCEAAoSE3.jpg

awesome

idgi, is that Dykstra?

Ike Davis concealed an oblique injury for most of last year:

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/81590/morning-briefing-ike-may-get-himself-traded

RFI pitchers bunting: is there precedent for having pitchers bat from the opposite side (righties bunting left) to keep the pitching hand away from the barrel of the bat?

niese to undergo mri for sore shoulder; told terry collins his arm felt 'dead'

Franklin is the Seattle SS they're scouting.

1b is an open Davis/Duda battle; I can't imagine the loser is gonna play much.

Mod, you mean ONLY for bunting?

Niese cleared, no problems

David Wright is the Face of Baseball, duh

@pareene
oh lord now the Mets are on the same radio station as Rush and Hannity like those fans need more shit to be paranoid and mad about

kevin burkhardt will be studio host for fox baseball

the grandyman!

"Let me offer you this: If there are concerns, what often ends up happening is we have an opportunity, along with Major League Baseball, to sit down and discuss perhaps what the game plan might be or could be going forward," said Clark, who played for the Mets in 2003. "... Is New York one of the marquee franchises? Yes. Will they always be? Yes. Are we paying attention in general? Yes."

The Post recently reported that a current team loan, due to be refinanced, had payroll constraints written into the terms by lenders.

"No, we are not aware of that," said Clark, who spoke with media in Port St. Lucie after the union had its annual meeting with players.

The Mets also have disputed that reported language.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/10550245/tony-clark-union-keeping-eye-new-york-mets-payroll

wheeler looked good (kind of a brutal interview for gary & keith tho)

not sure that a high-80s fastball is gonna cut it for kyle farnsworth

Ike Davis is wearing a walking boot, and has calf strains in both legs.

mr. met is now on twitter

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/3/10/5493224/royals-mascot-sluggerrr-needs-to-step-off-mrs-met

@Jay_HorwitzPR
Could be the first time in Mets history today that 3 players with small d's in their last name see action, d'Arnaud, den Dekker and deGrom.

deezmets

today's mets cap:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bi7fh1xIQAA272e.jpg

has Sandy solved Citi?

It seems Alderson had a specific plan in mind this offseason. He wanted to upgrade the outfield defense and he wanted fly ball hitters. He wanted players with this profile because—through some combination of a quirky park factor and perhaps poor defense—Citi Field is susceptible to balls hit in the air, and he wants to use this factor against opposing teams. If it works, perhaps Alderson will have solved the riddle of Citi Field.

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/3/21/5526300/solving-the-riddle-of-citi-field

dice-k batting eighth today, ahead of ruben tejada

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/7.2081833.1395683625!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/image-7-2081833.jpg

Klassic

Will Woods at BP:

Say this for the Mets: they’re remarkably dedicated to getting fly ball pitchers to maximize their strong outfield defense and mask their horrendous infield counterparts. But the Mets have so much good young starting pitching—to the point that they’re thinking about converting some to the pen, rather than, you know, trading for some offense—that the prolonged flirtation with Daisuke is bizarre. Jenrry Mejia is ready for his shot. By the way, here’s how you know no one else offered Bartolo Colon a second year: The Mets have so much starting pitching talent coming down the pike that Colon basically signed up to be pitching just about anywhere by the end of July.

Jose Valverde, unavailable to Yahoo fantasy team owners but available to close games for the Mets:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140326&content_id=70168662¬ebook_id=70168378

It will be a prominent role, to boot. Manager Terry Collins said that he may hold Parnell back from appearing on three consecutive days early in the season; on those nights, Valverde will pitch the ninth.

"You'd like your closer to go three or four in a row before you might think about giving him a day off," Collins said. "[But] we've got to make sure how Bobby feels. After two days in a row, I'll certainly be on top of that.

"Certainly [Valverde] is … going to hopefully be that bridge to Bob. And those nights that Bobby is going to need a night off, it's going to have to be Jose that's going to pick up the slack."

Important comma placement in the first sentence.

Jenrry Mejia makes rotation over Dice-K, hallefuckinlujah

gettin off bus in Soho at 1:30, where shd i watch a couple innings?

eric young jr at 2b for the metsies today

so close i can nearly grab tony tarascos ass

david wrights ab music is nkotb

wright has passed strawberry for the mets lead in career opening day hits

keith is wearing a coat of many stripes

ANDREW BROWN

based off of the espn gamecast thing, the umpire appears to be calling balls that are directly down the middle of the plate

Home listening to the new radio flagship, I am not gonna take hearing WOR Hannity promos all year.

LAGARRRRRRRRRRES

this is abt what i expected

oopsie

the captain with an a-rod homer

eric young jr at 2b for the metsies today

And...led off.

“@Mets: The Mets signed OF Bobby Abreu to a minor league contract. He will report to Las Vegas.”

^^^wow

mets 7-for-35 today with three homers, three walks and 18 strikeouts

bobby parnell diagnosed with an incomplete tear of his (elbow) mcl, will rest for two weeks before deciding whether surgery is required

~enter papa grande~

when I was listening to the game I honestly was surprised that Parnell was "abled".

weird how it takes a guy being unable to break 90mph for the mets to discover something is wrong

Professor Farnsworth, Wilmer Flores called up

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkOnzGSCAAAoJkT.png

weather may be decent Sat afternoon, phaps i'll go.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkO7QbECEAA7xUJ.jpg

mets, germs and steel

I wonder which fan it was

oic

Bartolo makes Sid Fernandez look like Chris Sale, amirite

Chris Young to DL with quad strain

http://i.imgur.com/fEcQrVP.jpg

how bout recker gunning down billy hamilton yesterday? good stuff

THE GRANDYMAN (still) CAN

lol yes reckers ab music is miley cyrus wrecking ball

1 batter too long: the dillon gee story

1 batter too soon: the mets bullpen story

IKE

Went today! Brisk weather. Video challenges rule.

The inner moral goodness of the Mets doesn’t always come through in live action, but it’s darn near unassailable upon further review.

http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2014/04/05/play-it-again-ike/

from 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/nyregion/doris-from-rego-park-mourned-on-late-night-sports-talk-radio.html

hey, d'arnaud got a hit

even up 4-0, valverde really pushed that to the limit

https://i.imgur.com/2iKk2wt.gif

That's all the Braves' lunches that he ate.

Uh...gotta say Valverde is looking pretty good.

Reach out and touch the visiting right fielder.

angels celebrated that like a world series win

Man, that Shuck swing on the HR was ugly.

colon is pitching to all parts of the field

M Trout homered to center.
A Pujols homered to left.
R Ibanez homered to right.

threw some fat ones

Lagares headed to DL with hamstring pull

Granderson X-rays negative on bruised forearm

dice-k up, lannan down

interesting arsenal last night: a double, a homer and ten singles

Recker's current .846 SLG is as massive and meaty as his prodigious glutes.

Valverde tossing BP again.

Uh...gotta say Valverde is looking pretty good.

― Andy K, Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:39 PM (6 days ago)

i see what you did

ike davis to pirates sez heyman

they waited all that time for a 26yo minor league reliever?

I saw most of last night's debacle; they need to release fatass Valverde and let Dice-K close.

E-UGGLA <3

Danny Knobler ‏@DannyKnobler 4m
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Blx_3FdCMAA65p4.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlxwO0oIIAEBygH.jpg

Nice to see that the Padres no longer bear this shame alone

"Yeah, I was in the shit."

Christ I hate this country and its motherfucking military worship, especially when it poisons baseball.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/4/22/5640266/matt-harvey-middle-finger-photo-lolmets

mets now slugging .311; no other mlb team is below .350

i don't know if you guys are aware but michael wacha promised a little boy in a hospital this morning that he'd strike out 27 mets tonight

was it colton burpo

has anyone ever struck out the side for the first 3 innings before?

that's a lot of pitches

yerp

2014 mets: we only score on bases-loaded walks

d'ARNOUT!

nice try with the Cardsnark, KM. :)

It's already a moral victory, guaranteed a 4-game split vs StL.

I didn't get a chance to see the play at the plate in the 9th. Was it close at all, or was Matheny just butthurt?

I was listng on the rodeo, replay thought conclusive (by Mets crew)

re K'ing first nine... looks like Mickey Welch in 1884?

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_strik.shtml

It's the new Met Way of running up the pitch count.

btw that team slugging (thru Tues) is .343 away, .265 at Citi

play @ the plate was def close, travis just did swipe and get the back flank of the runner as he slid by. to the umps credit, he got it right w/o replay

chris young with a ~bomb~

dice-k going for the save!

i called it

CISHEK SHIPWRECKED by the GRANDYMAN

^^

ILB quorum in Sec 516 today

EY Jr managing to get on once a game at least

http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/kevin-burkhardt-to-join-fox-full-time.html

good move for him obv, too bad his on-field replacement (can't recall his name) is terrible

Burkhardt's shit has never done anything for me

Mets pitchers are 0 for 41 at the plate this year, the longest hitless streak for any team's pitchers starting a season since at least 1974, according to STATS.

Daniel Murphy has succeeded in 27 consecutive stolen-base attempts, six shy of Kevin McReynolds' Mets record.

New York is 6-0 when Anthony Recker starts at catcher this season.

starters have given up more than three runs once in the last 13 games.

j0rdan was wondering on Sunday where a Mets star might live these days. I just read in the Times that Matt Harvey lives in the East Village so he can do East Villagey things like buy John Varvatos suits, and go to Whole Foods for cheese, and sports bars. I have lived too long.

Collins sez Lagares' return means there will be a 4-man OF rotation. Avoids having to bench a Young in favor of Grander$on.

the hidden WAR value of EY Jr

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/85376/mets-early-war-leader-surprise-its-ey

Cy Young played with Nick Altrock for the 1903 Boston Americans
Nick Altrock played with Buddy Myer for the 1929 Washington Senators
Buddy Myer played with Early Wynn for the 1939 Washington Senators
Early Wynn played with Tommy John for the 1963 Cleveland Indians
Tommy John played with Eric Plunk for the 1989 New York Yankees
Eric Plunk played with Bartolo Colon for the 1997 Cleveland Indians

START RECKER EVERYDAY

welp

Culberson looks like someone with a non-speaking role in a baseball movie.

blow up Coors

http://cdn3.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-May-4-22-30-51.jpg

Grandy on fiyuh

set dicek on fiyah pls

typical crushing mets/marlins game

poor travis d' is suffering from a .215 babip

otoh, he didn't actually put a ball in play in four plate appearances tonight

highlight of tonights broadcast was gary and keith not being able to tell whether a fans sent in twitter pic was a cat or a dog

identical 8-8 home & road records now; this swoon is a plot to take the stink off Citi

fuck this team, and whatever Sandy Alderson's bullpen plan was

16 of their next 19 games at home, God knows what that bodes

Better Know a Mets-Marlins Walkoff!

http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2014/05/07/better-know-a-walkoff/

Quintanilla dfa'd, WILMER ON THE WAY

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/5/8/5694272/mets-wilmer-flores-promote-shortstop-ruben-tejada-quintanilla

@jjcoop36
Fascinated by the Mets playing Wilmer Flores at SS. Over the years, have talked to 10+ scouts about Flores, none thought he could play SS.

lool wilmer just took a short hop throw directly in da nuts

well what a crisp game

why is Dice-K still around?

omg duda mvp

the professor owes him a drink

farns looked so bad tnight, let mejia close

Gary Cohen set the tone for the evening: "a classic Yankee Stadium cheap homer by Travis d'Arnaud."

Is that just 5 in a row vs the Stanks?

yep, their last game vs them in '12 was i think a sunday night game where dickey got knocked around after his sick june run of mostly shutouts

http://gd2.mlb.com/content/game/mlb/year_2012/month_06/day_24/gid_2012_06_24_nyamlb_nynmlb_1/boxscore_col.html

Clubhouse virus that has sickened Mets for a week or two has sent Gonzalez Germen TO THE DL. 25-yo righty Jacob deGrom called up.

curtis

reasonably insane nugget gary just dropped, last nights hr granderson hit on a 3-0 count was his first ever career hit on a 3-0 count

Prof Farnsworth released!

Gee to DL w/ lat strain

@robertbrender
1 thing you may not know about deGrom: broke a finger on his left hand when a bull kicked him while helping a friend with a castration #Mets

and first hit by a Mets pitcher this year

guessing degrom put up more war tonight than jeter has all season

Alderson's credit card info emailed to beat writers

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/5/16/5724322/lolmets-email-sandy-alderson-credit-card-info

run the bases a bit better and they could take this game

yeah KM and I witnessed that crap

shit i was there also! shoulda gave a shout

saying *i* shouldve

http://cantstopthebleeding.com/wordpress/img/2014/05/Bn3h56CCQAAOEzr.jpg

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/ticketing/group_offers.jsp?group=cosplay

i thought "cosplay" was an exclusive ILX term in the title of some thread i've never clicked on

Assumed it was a euphemism for drugging and raping young women.

Er, http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0%2C%2C20059561%2C00.html.

play campbell everyday

he's no allan dykstra

outhit LA 13-5, lose

AMAZIN'

(I was at Dr. Strangelove)

Makeup twinbill on Sunday means Banner Day will be part of a doubleheader as in days of yore.

and Vic Black is the 26th man today

syndergaaaaard to dl with 'mild flexor-pronator strain'

pls dfa valverde

done

thank u and god speed papa grande

every series rallying cry:

DON'T GET SWEPT

also a change of hitting coaches

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/10986954/dave-hudgens-new-york-mets-hitting-coach-fired

vic black, travellin man

Jacob deGrom already totals 0.3 WAR *AS A BATTER* for the Mets. That ties for 7th on the team.

Dave Hudgens relieved he doesn't have to listen to Keith Hernandez's old-school shit anymore

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/5/27/5753624/mets-dave-hudgens-sny-gary-keith-ron-hitting-coach

It's too bad Hudgens didn't refer to his favored approach as the Keith Hernandez Way.

50 Cent threw out the first pitch

https://vine.co/v/MdAweK9YdED

booo

bunch of nice plays by mets fielders amidst the eight walks tho

omg Mejia w/ 2-inning save. T COLLINS, REVOLUTIONARY.

also Abreu as reg RF plz, we need HITTERS

2000 strikeouts for bartolo :

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/5/28/5758506/bartolo-colon-accidental-run-producer

http://online.wsj.com/articles/gas-up-the-plane-mets-hit-the-road-for-historic-trip-1401414219

vic blakk ks howard looking, on to the 14th

ugh reid brignac

extras again

duda

Juan Lagares was forced out of the game in the 10th inning with an oblique injury. The center fielder was sent back to New York on Sunday night, where he has an MRI exam scheduled for this morning.

Matt den Dekker is reportedly set to join the big club again should the Mets move Lagares to the disabled list, which is expected to happen prior to Monday's series finale.

den dekker!

Mets still last in the majors in slugging, but lead NL in drawing walks.

also lead the NL in striking out

two outta 3 perfect outcomes

well this certainly doesnt have a slow-boiling disaster feel to it

Giants and Mets this weekend, should be fun.

thank God, damage control w/ DiceK pull

Giants and Mets this weekend, should be fun.

for you, i suspect

^^^^^^^

The Mets optioned C Travis d'Arnaud to Triple-A Las Vegas after the game and called up C Taylor Teagarden.

TEAGARDEN TEES IT

good call up

chris young in center could be a disaster

Abreu 4 hits, Colon strong 7.1 innings lead Senior League Mets

I can think of no worse place to take my dad for Father’s Day than Citi Field. Also, I can think of no worse place to take your dad. Or anybody’s dad, son, brother, uncle, grandpa, cousin or in-law. I wouldn’t jump to take anybody to Citi Field at this moment unless he — or she — was a 50 Cent fanatic, and apparently that ship has finally sailed.

http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2014/06/14/what-can-i-tell-ya/#sthash.fylZgYra.dpuf

terry w/ the larussa tribute - deGrom hitting 8th

deGrom ha a pretty incredible mullet going

has

pretty sure there's a small community of birds up in there

New York - Top of 6th
Lance Lynn pitching for St. Louis
B Colon doubled to deep left.

they prob will take his urine after the game

first hit since 2005 and first career extra base hit

wau bart

new best dh option in al parks

first run scored since august 2002

RIP Lance Lynn

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/6/18/5821862/bartolo-colon-double-speed

back to this Eric Young leadoff shit again

hurry back Lagares

Cards have only made BC throw 76 pitches in 7 innings

fire terry collins if the bullpen blows this

he smartly went to eveland there so maybe he deserves an extension instead

HAD EM ALL THE WAY

and the Mets' mvp of the day is... Matt Holliday

den Dekker down, Nieuwenhuis up

wheeler cgsho

is there any other kind

old-fashioned early '70s win on a solo HR

wright was *toast* on that, hope this fake rule or w/e helps

lol keith just said GET THESE LAYWERS OUT OF THIS GAME

ok, but he was blocking the plate there

thats a loss that can only happen to the fish tbh

happen *versus* the fish i mean

it's 1973 all over again, ya gotta beeleeeeve!

Grandy, Murphy, Tejada and Duda all have higher season OBPs than Wright now.

please please please, let me get what i want

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/6/23/5834454/mets-rumors-release-chris-young

Sonny Gray being skipped for rest, so Scott Kazmir pitches for 1st time ever in Queens vs Bartolo tonight.

moooookie?

word

teagarden injured, d'arnaud recalled

I just need C Y to be released before tonight

alas he is starting in center and batting sixth

figured they must be showcasing him w/ the cf start, he did a good job sitting back on that offspeeed pitch

and again!

damn, save some of these now~

chris young had some stern words for dr. morbius as he rounded third on his second home-run trot tonight

we were in the upper deck and couldn't hear them tho

Comeback Player of the Night

It was just the second time in Colon’s career that he’s picked up base knocks in back-to-back outings. The last time it happened was in July of 2002, when he picked up singles in consecutive starts with the Expos.

Flores back down to LV as Lagares is activated, wtf

dillon g is pitching for brooklyn on sunday

david wright scratched with shoulder soreness; headed to ny for mri

ok harrison ran onto the infield

can we swap an active position player into pitch the ibb

second and third, nobody out run expectancy = 2.052

pirates in the tenth at home in a tie game = 0

glad i stayed outta Steel City this weekend

j hey

thank u based mets

Got to wonder at this point if David Wright is going down the same path with a bum shoulder that slowed Scott Rolen's career in his 30s.

thx for that thought; realy no evidence of that as yet

happy bobby bonilla check day!

campbell at 3b is a nightmare

THAT d'ARN AUD

GRANDY

aw, david wright hit his seventh homer, how cute

Jeez, what an inning.

god, this inning hah

travis w/ a bomb

God damn, Collins, you don't have to run out on the field after every frickin' play.

how else can he justify his holding the job

Good point.

i would watch commercials any day over this Citi enhanced promo garbage

well what a rotten time for the break.

Mets have 5th-best run differential in the NL now.

espn.com using "surging Mets" always precedes a mean regression

Dice-K to pen upon Niese's return

tejada just took a fastball pretty much right in the forehead

left the game, but seemed okay. helmets ftw

no baserunners vs Bartolo thru 5

i guess i better go to a bar if he makes it to 6

Murphy still a born DH

haha fuck u f-rod

thx frankie

if Mets win each of the next two days, i will start to believe in the WC (a little)

Mets offense now about equal on home, road (cc Keith Hernandez)

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/7/27/5940675/new-york-mets-citi-field-offense

Duda has quietly snuck into NL top 10 in OPS

jeurys familia now 2-for-3 in his career, 2-for-2 this year

De Fratus more like de flatus amirite?

Elias Sports Bureau @EliasSports · 1h
@Mets went 15-10 in July, best in the National League and fourth in the major leagues.

lol that alderson mentions ^^ by saying 'you know i was looking something else up and i saw…"

sandy also said we couldve been in on some of the guys arizona moved? i guess that must mean parra

or maybe acquiring eric chavez who retired

DO NOT RUN ON JUAN LAGARES

bobby abreu dfa'd

I had not realized how sucky he'd been since April until recently.

Anyway, remote wildcard hopes now extinguished, so i will just be attending as many deGrom starts as I can henceforth.

yr national league rookie of the month

sic throw eric campbell

ty asdrubal

Ian Desmond, Jacobkiller

niewenhuis flashin sum leather~

this could go on for awhile

lagares wouldn't have had to dive xp

bartolo : 200 wins

Chris Young DFA'd hallelujah

den Dekker/Campbell in LF

Rookie right-hander Jacob deGrom will be evaluated in New York on Monday after experiencing shoulder soreness in the days following Thursday's start against Washington. DeGrom, who is 6-5 with a 2.87 ERA in 16 starts, will not make his scheduled start on Tuesday against the Nationals.

Jenrry Mejia revealed after the game that he has been struggling with a hernia problem for the last three weeks. "Doctors say if it bothers me too much to let him fix it, but I don't want to let him know because I want to keep pitching," Mejia said.

reckin ball

degrom to dl

well this game is goin about as i thought, which is why i didn't go

weekend vs nu-look Cubs tempts slightly w/ tix 30% off

jeezus Recker looks like he was genetically engineered

. . . for love

by Marvel Comics

somehow Mets got 7 runs on 5 total bases last night

Bartolo Colon will not take the mound today as the Mets go for the series win against the Cubs. He is on his way home to the Dominican Republic to see his mother, who is in critical condition. Colon's mother had previously been diagnosed with breast cancer back in April.

nice job by torres

mets are the first team to go five straight games with four or fewer hits since . . . the mets, in 2004

maybe they can become the first team to fire the hitting coach twice in a year since...?

https://twitter.com/msimonespn/status/501756508645105665/photo/1

the NL really needs to adopt the DH so i never have to see Daniel fuckin' Murphy in the field

I did laugh at lot at this Dan Haren RBI

Murphy to DL, Dice-K returns to throw slop

oh yeah, Dilson Herrera called up from AA! Presumably to start at 2b for a fortnight.

wally backman is your pacific coast league manager of the year

I really fear his ascension to the Citi seat in '16

dilson grounds into dblplay 1st pitch seen in majors

crosspost to 2k14 trivial occurrences

don't know if i've ever before witnessed a winning-rally inning that was 3 runs, 0 hits

(thx/sorry Grady)

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/51066/lagares-wins-defensive-player-of-august

jason bay's first year as a met (age 31): .259/.347/.402, 105 OPS+, 1.8 WAR

curtis granderson's (age 33): .212/.316/.358, 93 OPS+, 0.8 WAR

.186/.287/.325 at home

.147/.231/.183 in august

nice guy, tho. only three years, $47m to go

have hit some bombs tonight

2 runs away from having their season run differential to 0 from this output

mets > cardinals

yes obv

hey, won that game twice in 5 minutes

through the 17th, four field-level seats for $48

(while they last)

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/ticketing/degrom_ticket_offer.jsp

Matt who?

Mets going to 6-man rotation at least for this turn, deGrom next on Monday vs Marlins

The Elias Sports Bureau notes that (deGrom is) one of three pitchers in Mets history to have an ERA below 3.00 through the first 20 starts of his debut season. The other two: Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden....

Since starting 0-4, deGrom is 8-2 with a 1.77 ERA in 12 starts. Since June 21, his ERA ranks third-best in baseball, behind only Clayton Kershaw’s 1.19 and Corey Kluber’s 1.61. His .535 opponents’ OPS trails only Kershaw’s .464 and Garrett Richards’ .510.

Not only did the scoreboard watching go right for the Mets from the perspective of the wild-card standings (yes, go ahead and laugh), it went right for deGrom from a statistical perspective as well.

DeGrom’s chief competition in the Rookie of the Year race, Billy Hamilton, finished Tuesday 0-for-4 for the Reds, dropping his batting average to .260.

Unlike the wild card, this will be a neck-and-neck race probably right down to the final day. DeGrom’s pitching entering the day was worth 2.5 Wins Above Replacement. Hamilton was a hair behind him. His offensive and defensive performance has been worth 2.4 WAR.

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/94693/degroms-standing-right-near-best-in-game

wilpons ftw

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-co-owner-jeff-wilpon-accused-discrimination-pregnant-unmarried-woman-bombshell-lawsuit-article-1.1935123

beat me to it

ugh, I don't need to read about any more Stupid Owner Tricks

(UNLESS THIS ONE FORCES THEM TO SELL)

details!

https://sports.vice.com/article/jeff-wilpon-is-a-piece-of-shit-according-to-lawsuit

also gbye Captain David

@AnthonyDiComo
Matt Harvey was consistently throwing 95 mph in his final bullpen session of the year today, according to Sandy Alderson.

8 Ks to start the game!

between him, Wheeler and Harvey, the Mets have something of a ... generation K.

that was a very deflating game to witness

don't forget Syndergaard

nothing good can happen with camo jerseys

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/9/15/6154737/mr-met-wore-jacob-degroms-hair-and-it-is-unsettling

i watched deGrom's first 6 strikeouts this morning, which KM and I missed whilst WAITING ON A LATECOMER

Two dingers, 6 RBI for Flores

Beelzebud thinks Wilpons are doing just fine

http://nypost.com/2014/09/17/part-of-seligs-legacy-always-will-be-tied-to-wilpons-mets/

2 Dingers!!

Threw that in in case jsarge ever posts about anything but the NBA or Taylor Swift again.

Lagares with elbow sprain, likely done for '14.

alderson extended

deGrom 'shut down' for year, in the clubhouse w/ the RoY i suspect

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24722311/mrs-mets-rear-end-a-photographic-appreciation

darling says that he and mackey sasser didn't get along 'on or off the field'

burning those bridges

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByZoirQIAAAT8_Y.png

saw this happen in real time -- gee's balk came less than a minute after the first tweet

Granderson has his OPS up to .719! Murphy's is only .742 fwiw.

six national league teams finished with a positive run differential -- the five playoff teams and the new york mets

maybe if they'd had Jeter they could've put up a -31 and still gone home.

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/hapinessisametswin_zps9483d068.jpg

http://mlb.com/nym/images/fan_forum/y2014/249x260_pumpkin1.jpg

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/10/14/6978209/new-york-mets-tommie-agee-1969-world-series-game-3-october-14

http://i.imgur.com/AwOywQO.jpg

tidewater tides ftw

Kevin Long, new hitting coach! oh no, i can hear Keith (Joe Morgan) Hernandez bemoaning a "non-aggressive approach" again...

I had not seen those Tommie Agee catches in quite a few years. He really covers some ground on both of them. They really were some amazin' catches.

Game 6

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/10/25/7070795/watch-game-6-1986-world-series-new-york-mets-boston-red-sox-mookie-wilson-bill-buckner

@SamBorden

Huge @NYTSports exclusive: Inexplicably, the African soccer confed. web site's background photo is of .. Shea Stadium http://www.cafonline.com/en-us/home.aspx

70 today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2wuO3Mdo-w

mets apparently charging players to attend off-season workouts: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/15/wait-the-mets-are-charging-players-to-attend-offseason-workouts-really

WTF: Mets owner Fred Wilpon named head of Major League Baseball's finance committee

http://risingapple.com/2015/01/18/fred-wilpon-named-chairman-mlbs-finance-committee/

Is this the baseball equivalent of the POTUS pardoning guys on his way out?

no idea, but i assume it's OK w/ Manfred

That was sort of my point -- maybe Selig is handing out favours in his last few days in office and Manfred doesn't have much of a say in it.

@joe_sheehan
After the #Nationals are done paying Max Scherzer, the #Mets will still owe Bobby Bonilla about $8 million.

@keithlaw · Jan 19
Prediction: 57% of baseball tweets today will combine the keywords "Scherzer" and "Bonilla"

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n213/Nrangers/US_flag_half_mast_hg_clr.gif 13 years ago today, the mets traded away benny agbayani