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No Longer Undefeated
Click here for a recap of Friday’s game. Click here for a recap of Saturday’s game. The Mets split the first two games of this series. Look for Orlando Hernandez to get them back on track before the team heads to Shea for their home opener and the first of three games against the Phillies.
Mazzilli Traded for Darling & Terrell: 25 Years Later
Jamey Newberg writes about the Texas Rangers perspective of the 1982 trade that sent Lee Mazzilli from the Mets to the Rangers in exchange for Ron Darling and Walt Terrell.
Undefeated Mets Take On Undefeated Braves
Click here for a recap of Tuesday’s game. Click here for a recap of Wednesday’s game. The Mets are one of two teams in the NL East that are undefeated after the season opening sweep against the St. Louis Cardinals. The other team is the Atlanta Braves who swept the Philadelphia Phillies in their season […]
Opening Night Success
Click here for a recap of last night’s game. Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado celebrated fatherhood in high style last night. Delgado, who became father to a baby boy last week, smacked a two run double in the third inning to give Tom Glavine his first win of the season and number 291 of his […]
Mota’s Apology Not Accepted
Guillermo Mota had been brought in to fill a hole in the bullpen when Duaner Sanchez was hurt in a cab accident in Miami just before last years trade deadline. Six months later he’s needed again to cover for a Sanchez injury but will not be able to answer the call because of his suspension. […]
Bullpen Notes
With Duaner Sanchez out at least four months with a hairline fracture in his right shoulder and Guillermo Mota serving a 50 game suspension for steroids use the Mets bullpen is suffering. Aaron Heilman will now cover the 8th inning but he has been slowed by tendinitis and off season acquisition Ambiorix Burgos has had […]
Sánchez by a Hair-line
I’m a little late in reporting this since work has been very busy lately but… It looks like Duaner Sanchez‘s shoulder is worse than I reported last week. After cutting short a mound session last week trainers said Sanchez had some scar tissue come loose. An MRI and further examination showed that the righthander has […]
Sánchez Mound Session Cut Short
According to Mark Hale’s blog on the New York Post‘s website Duaner Sanchez‘s first sessions throwing off a mound ended abruptly after only a few minutes with the right handed setup man ‘over behind the mound’. Stay tuned because this may get interesting. Manager Willie Randolph has already said that Aaron Heilman will assume the […]
Sánchez = Slacker?
The Mets finally had a spring controversy over the weekend when Duaner Sanchez was asked to leave camp for two days for what the team labeled excessive ‘tardiness’. During the suspension many mets players expressed a general feeling that Sanchez wasn’t pulling his weight while rehabbing from a separated right shoulder. The players felt that […]
Jets Get A Running Back
Shifting gears to football. The Jets engineered a trade for Chicago Bears running back Thomas Jones. This deal is tremendous. The Jets also swapped second round picks with the Bears so they essentially got an All Pro running back in exchange for the opportunity to draft higher in the second round of the draft. What […]
