Category: Feature Stories
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The Mets can exorcise their demons by doing something they couldn’t in the past
Nearly eight full years ago–on September 14, 2007 to be exact–the Mets entered a series with the Philadelphia Phillies–a series that very well could have ended the race in the National League East for good. Going into the first contest of their three-game set, the Mets had a robust seven-game lead over the second-place Phillies with…
Rich MacLeod
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Claiming to be undistracted by the Matt Harvey circus, the 2015 Mets face their greatest challenge
The Mets dropped two out of three games in Miami over the weekend while the Nationals swept a four-game series against the Braves in Washington. In the middle of their lost series, the Mets endured an unnecessary distraction from their co-ace, Matt Harvey, his agent, Scott Boras, and a media circus involving the on-going innings limit conversations,…
Michael Baron
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Bartolo Colon is baseball’s wonder of their world, and an inspiration for any athlete
This is New York, and the price of being in the New York market is dealing with inevitable negative distractions at some point during a baseball season. It’s inevitable. It’s only a matter of time. And on September 4, 2015, the Mets hit that wall of negative distraction when Matt Harvey’s agent, Scott Boras decided to tell…
Michael Baron
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Curtis Granderson, and balancing his role as a power-hitting leadoff hitter
When the Mets signed Curtis Granderson to a four-year, $60 million contract in December, 2013, the front office believes they were adding a left-handed hitting power hitter to the middle of their lineup. He was coming off a lost season in 2013 in which he dealt with two broken hands thanks to being hit by a…
Michael Baron
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An examination of the Mets postseason starting rotation scenarios
In fairness, the Mets will not be able to exorcise the demons of their epic failures of the 2007 and 2008 seasons until they actually make it to the playoffs. But this team is indeed different, both in their physical and cultural make ups. Just ask David Wright, who experienced both the successes and failures of the 2006-2008 seasons,…
Michael Baron
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