Category: Op-Ed
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The Mets defense – a known weakness – was exploited by the Royals in the World Series
The Mets picked a bad week to have a bad week. Or, perhaps more likely, the Royals simply exploited the Mets greatest and widely discussed weakness in 2015. The World Series could be defined simply by a myriad of missed opportunities for the 2015 New York Mets, as they watched their season take a one-way…
Michael Baron
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Terry Collins followed his heart with Matt Harvey, and it got broken
The morning after is never kind to the team that’s forced to watch a champion celebrate. Especially after a World Series where everything that got that club to the dance went incredibly wrong in one fell swoop. In what turned out to be yet another gut wrenching and heart breaking loss for the Mets, there…
Michael Baron
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The Mets are down, but they are not out…
Saturday night was about as miserable a loss as the Mets have had all season. After all it’s the World Series, and the Mets were trying to build back after a deconstructive loss in Game 1 marred by poor defense and a missed opportunity to close out what looked like a win according to their…
Michael Baron
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Michael Conforto has taken another step in his track towards stardom
From the very first defensive inning in this World Series for the Mets, the common theme has been, for lack of a better phrase, lackluster defense. In essence, for every play the Royals can and have made through the first four games of this series, the Mets have not. Look no further than the first…
Michael Baron
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Steven Matz’s quietly great World Series start will serve as a precursor for what’s to come
It’s a shame the Mets went down the way they did on Saturday night, because there would have been so many positive things to discuss about Game 4, rather than wondering what might have been if not for another late-inning crumble. Take Steven Matz as one example of that. The kid from Long Island has been…
Michael Baron
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