'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

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