Category: Op-Ed
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Sean Gilmartin, the true savior on Monday, continues to be a great story in baseball
Monday night in Philadelphia had “bad night” written all over it. The Mets were trailing 7-2 in the third inning to the hapless Phillies. An old foe in Ryan Howard delivered the keynote with a three-run home run on an off-night for Jacob deGrom, and Domonic Brown capped his poor night with a three-run home run of his own.…
Michael Baron
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Jacob deGrom chose a great night to have the worst start of his career
For a while anyway, Monday night looked like one of those games in that third of the season the Mets were just destined to lose. That’s because Mets ace Jacob deGrom, who entered his start on Monday with the second-best ERA in baseball at 1.98, threw out his worst start of his career against the Phillies on…
Michael Baron
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David Wright has written a romantic chapter in the Mets story about 2015
The Mets have been writing themselves quite the script for a Hollywood feature film over the last month, bull charging their way into first place as a run scoring and pitching machine Flushing hasn’t seen in nearly 30 years. But in this particular scene of the film, it wasn’t about a team win, or or…
Michael Baron
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Michael Conforto’s nine lives, and how he’s made the most of them
When the Mets decided to call up top hitting prospect Michael Conforto on July 24th, it was reasonable to think he may have never played another minor league game after that. To this day he still hasn’t, but it’s taken a lot for that to happen. The Mets began upgrading their roster the day they promoted Conforto from…
Rich MacLeod
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The Mets newcomers have helped sparked the rest of their lineup
Without question, the Mets had remarkable series against the Rockies this past weekend at Coors Field. They feasted on the hitter-friendly environment, pounding out 45 hits – 21 of which were extra-bases – and 33 runs over the three games in their sweep of Colorado. In seven games against the Rockies, the Mets scored 56…
Michael Baron
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