By Mike McGann
Editor, FlushingUniversity.com
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There’s just about three weeks until pitchers and catchers report to Port St. Lucie and although you can’t tell it from the front office’s behavior, the Mets appear to have failed to address their biggest offseason needs.
Pitching and defense.
Yes, they got Jason Bay, which is a nice boost to their lineup. They got Gary Matthews, Jr., who may not
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By Mike McGann
Editor, FlushingUniversity.com
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So, it seems Carlos Beltran and the Mets are about to have a pissing match about his surgery. For those of you who missed it, Beltran went to his own doctor, Dr. Richard Steadman to have an arthroscopic procedure on his knee, the sore knee that caused him to miss half of the 2009 season.
The facts are pretty clear: Beltran and the Mets thought the k
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By Mike McGann
Editor, FlushingUniversity.com
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Let's -- for a minute -- set aside any discussion about frustration with the Mets' ownership, ballpark and what-have-you. On this frozen mid-January day, let us just consider the Mets' offseason and roster shaping -- where things stand and where they might be going.
Mets' GM Omar Minaya waited out Jason Bay and signed him to a pricey but not insane
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By Mike McGann
Editor, FlushingUniversity.com
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So sometime later this week, Jason Bay will officially be a New York Met, thus ending the winter of backup catcher-bullpen guy discontent.
What's evident here is this: the Mets played it right, didn't bid (much) against themselves and brought in a guy who is, by all accounts, a gamer to the pasture that is left field at Citi Field. They now have an
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By Mike McGann
Editor, FlushingUniversity.com
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Santa has been checking his list, twice, three times...mostly because he’s struggling with how naughty some people on it have been. Still he knows there are some good little boys and girls out there in Metsland and, digging through trade rumors stumbled upon Santa’s holiday list on an unsecured server.
For Mets fans: a prescription for Valium. Sa
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By Mike McGann
Editor, FlushingUniversity.com
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Multiple media reports suggest that the Mets are on the verge of signing Japanese set up pitcher Ryota Igarashi to a two-year deal.
Igarashi, a 30-year-old righty, posted a 3-2 record with Yakult in 2009 with a 3.19 ERA. he's spent most of his career as a set up man, but did have 37 saves as the Swallows closer in 2004. On the mildly concerning sid
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By Mike McGann
Editor, FlushingUniversity.com
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Well, the baseball executives are all home nestled snug in their beds, home from the Winter Meetings in Indianoplace -- even Steve Phillips has given up trying to find young, impressionable female TV production assistants to bed at the hotel bar -- and yet we know very little more about what the 2010 Mets will look like.
Before you assume this is s
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Does anyone truly believe Omar has no constraints on spending when we're about to go into the season with the roster as it currently exists? 
You really are the dean of pessimism, and 100% right.
Wilpons have done their part so far for 2010. Performance on the field (or lack thereof) may help as well.
This is a fantastic idea, which is probably the best reason while it will never happen.
From your mouth to, as George Carlin put it, the invisible man in the sky's ears.
