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You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Mets. Why aren’t the Mets going after Joc Pederson? They could reconfigure their entire team around such an …
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The Mets were the accidental contenders of 2019. When they tried, they failed. When they surrendered, they succeeded. Brodie Van Wagenen provided the words. In January 2019, before even his first spring training as GM, he assessed the Mets as the NL East favorites and challenged the rest of the division to “come get us.” …
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This was going to be relatively simple for Michael Conforto. He was going to make $8 million this year. Then, with a now familiar season of above-average production, Conforto was looking at a 2021 of no less than $12 million. At that point, as Conforto entered free agency, Scott Boras would come up with a …
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Sixth in a series analyzing the New York Mets. Michael Conforto appeared to finally have it all figured out late in the 2017 season. Fresh off his first All-Star appearance, after an inexplicable sophomore slump that bounced him between Triple-A Las Vegas and Citi Field, the Mets outfielder was on his way to greatness. Nobody …
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Yoenis Cespedes. The Mets. $111.7 million. Totally worth it. OK, this won’t be the most analytical, 400-level-Econ-class column ever written. This one comes partly from the heart, partly from the contrarian impulses that course through my veins. Yet with the coronavirus shutdown further limiting, if not fully ending, both Cespedes’ time in a Mets uniform …
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Yeesh. To steal from legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf, if you had the Mets and Yankees extending sympathy and virtual hugs during this unprecedented nightmare … you lost! With Major League Baseball starting no time soon, New York’s two clubs released their long-awaited ticket policies to address the COVID-19 shutdown, and look, they could have been …
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The Mets have a credit/refund plan implemented for games wiped out by the COVID-19 shutdown. On Thursday the club announced that ticket holders for “impacted games” – those scheduled for March and April at Citi Field – can exchange those tickets for future dates, in 2020 or 2021, or submit a request online for a …
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The latest billionaire bidder for the Mets might actually be more of a bargain shopper. According to multiple sources familiar with the situation, biotech investor Wayne Rothbaum is still interested in buying the money-losing MLB franchise from the Wilpons, but without the team’s money-making cable network SNY included, Rothbaum would only pony up at an …
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The urge is still there, the impulse to help, to lend a hand, to do something. Back in 2001, that meant Bobby Valentine would try to do whatever was asked of him, go wherever he was needed. The towers had fallen, the city was grieving, and Valentine was managing the Mets, and so he was …
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Jim Fregosi was on a trajectory similar to Scott Rolen through his age-29 season. Even now, a half-century later, Fregosi’s 45.9 Wins Above Replacement before age 30 is tied for 52nd all-time with Rolen — at least a borderline Hall of Famer — and Alan Trammell — an actual Hall of Famer; it’s slightly better …
You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Mets. Why aren’t the Mets going after Joc Pederson? They could reconfigure their entire team around such an …
