Category: Op-Ed
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The Mets can use their strengths to protect their own weaknesses against the Royals
If the Mets are going to win the World Series, they’re going to have to beat an old fashioned baseball team to do it. They’re facing a Kansas City Royals team who is already battle tested. This is their second World Series berth in as many years, and they’ve utilized a very similar style to…
Michael Baron
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At long last, the Mets will play a World Series game…
The day has finally arrived. Perhaps unexpectedly, but none the less, the day is here. The Mets will play a World Series game on Tuesday night, 29 years to the day since they last won a championship. Not the Giants, not the Cardinals. Not the Dodgers, not the Yankees. The Mets. The retro-fitted Mets. The…
Michael Baron
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Daniel Murphy is writing an incredible story, but it doesn’t mean the Mets should re-sign him
To say that it’s been an incredible postseason thus far for Daniel Murphy would probably be the understatement of the century at this point. The man simply known as “Murph” has been on an absolutely torrid run over the last two weeks, as he’s hit .421/.436/.1.026 with two doubles, seven home runs, 11 RBI, 11 runs…
Rich MacLeod
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Wilmer Flores never wanted to leave New York, and his retention has paid dividends
There have been so many different turning points and momentous events for the Mets in 2015. It can be argued their 13-3 start saved them. It’s been argued by this author it was their 4-2 trip to the west coast in early July, moments after being swept away by the Cubs at Citi Field, which put the…
Michael Baron
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The 2015 New York Mets could become one of baseball’s greatest stories ever
It’s still hard to even believe the Mets are in the World Series, isn’t it? To think about how far this team has come over the years, battling through the depths of some of the darkest times in franchise history to the point there were public doubts about the stability of their own ownership group, can…
Michael Baron
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