Category: Op-Ed
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The Mets can be a playoff team, but there’s one thing holding them back…
As I said this morning, this is a talented group of players who seem to only be getting better, more confident, and more reinforced as time goes on. This is a 95-win pitching staff to me, and if they make the playoffs, they can be extremely dangerous. Their starting rotation is as deep as anyone’s…
Michael Baron
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The hope – and the expectation – that has sprung for eternity with these Mets
“We have high expectations,’’ manager Terry Collins told Kevin Kernan of the New York Post. “A lot of it is because we basically went out and got a No. 1 pitcher — Matt Harvey — even though he’s been ours, we got a No. 1 starting pitcher. They’re hard to find.’’ This is the new…
Michael Baron
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The Mets defense has been, and will be a primary concern in 2015
Much like it was in the 1980’s, this is an era of baseball becoming defined by three specific areas in the game. Pitching, defense, and speed. The Mets certainly have the pitching. And the additions of Michael Cuddyer, John Mayberry Jr., and both Jerry Blevins and Alex Torres gives the Mets much needed credibility offensively as well as a more solidified…
Michael Baron
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Matt Harvey believes media portrayal of him is inaccurate
Since Matt Harvey burst onto the scene in the summer of 2012, all eyes have been on every move he makes. During that early time, Harvey has risen to stardom with his incredible early-career performance on the mound and lived a very public lifestyle in the process. Harvey has become a celebrity of sorts very early in…
Michael Baron
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Wilmer Flores, his confidence, and his improving defense
For years it seems, the Mets have questioned Wilmer Flores’ ability to play shortstop competently at the Major League level, so much they began to move him away from the position in 2011, and was a full-time second baseman in the Mets minor leagues by the 2012 season. But with no other option emerging in their organization…
Michael Baron
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