Category: Op-Ed
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Now that Yoenis Cespedes is a Met, how will the Mets align their outfield, and infield?
On Friday, the Mets made their most significant trade deadline acquisition perhaps in this century, acquiring OF Yoenis Cespedes from the Tigers in exchange for Michael Fulmer and Luis Cessa. He is unquestionably the big transformational bat the fans and the entire industry has been waiting for the Mets to acquire. But now that he’s here, how will the Mets align and…
Michael Baron
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On Friday, Wilmer Flores delivered in a moment that wasn’t supposed to happen
What an incredible spectrum of emotions that Wilmer Flores and this Mets team has endured in a 48-hour span. On Friday night, on the heels of three standing ovations earlier in the contest, Flores rocketed a walk-off home run over the wall in left field to beat the Washington Nationals in the biggest game of the…
Rich MacLeod
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Mets got the bats they needed, so its time to go for it and win—now
All of this trade talk was fun and entertaining, and in a lot of ways exciting and distracting. But something which has gotten lost in the hoopla of the trade deadline is the Mets just lost two out of three to the floundering San Diego Padres in their home ballpark, pushing them 4 1/2 games out…
Michael Baron
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Why the Mets are willing to trade Zack Wheeler
Clearly, the Mets are willing to trade Wheeler under the right circumstances this summer. Obviously, they were closing to moving him to Milwaukee for Carlos Gomez before that deal fell apart late Wednesday. They were also willing to deal Wheeler to the Rockies for Troy Tulowitzki. Along with Jay Bruce, the common denominator is all three of these players…
Michael Baron
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The Mets lost on Thursday, fairly miserably and fittingly at that…
The 24 hours between the beginning with the second game of a three-game series between the Mets and Padres and the conclusion of the third game in the series was as strange as it was unproductive. It included a player crying on the field, a trade that was done then wasn’t, more than three hours…
Michael Baron
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