Where Will ARod Land? And Will It Affect Wright?
Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports reports on the top 10 destinations for Alex Rodriguez. The Mets rank number 6 on the list and Passan doesn’t seem to be too confident that the Mets will sign the future home run king. But Adam Rubin reports in today’s New York Daily News that the front office has […]
ARod and the Mets?
There’s already been a lot of speculation on where Alex Rodriguez will end up now that it is a certainty that he will be on the open market. There are very strong rumors that have him going to the Los Angeles Dodgers along with Joe Torre and Don Mattingly. But here in New York it […]
Congratulations All Stars
Congratulations to Carlos Beltran, David Wright, Jose Reyes and Billy Wagner on being selected to the National League All Star team.
Easley Plays Long Ball
The Mets offense got a boost from an unlikely source yesterday when Damion Easley hit a 3 run homer off of Arizona closer Jose Valverde to cap a Mets rally in the ninth and give New York a 9-4 victory over the Diamondbacks in the opener of a four game weekend series. David Wright also […]
A Loss and a Win
Click here for a recap of Sunday’s game. Click here for a recap of Monday’s game. Sunday’s game didn’t work out as I planned. I was feeling like the game was going to turn during Orlando Hernandez‘s last inning of work. I felt like he was running out of steam. But it was the bullpen […]
Wright Joins Bush League
Yesterday in St. Lucie Mets third baseman David Wright talked about his dinner at the White House with President George W. Bush and other baseball luminaries including George Will and Lou Piniella. Read more about it in Kevin Kernan’s column in today’s New York Post.
Wright Not Going Anywhere Either
The Mets announced that they have signed David Wright to a contract extension that will keep him with the team at least through the 2012 season with a club option for the 2013 season. This insures that the left side of the infield featuring Wright and Jose Reyes will be in Flushing together through the […]
Reyes: Player of the Week… Again
I don’t think my praise of Jose Reyes yesterday had anything to do with this but Reyes was named NL Player of the Week yesterday. It was the second week in a row he won the award. The first time he shared it with teammate David Wright. Ths time he gets it solo and it’s […]
Reyes is Also a Deity
A couple of weeks ago I praised David Wright. He’s been great all year and gets better every time I watch him. Now it’s Jose Reyes‘s turn. He had two consecutive 4 hit games this weekend, has had 4 hit games in 3 of the last 4 and has a 13 game hit streak going […]
Wright & Reyes: Players of the Week
David Wright and Jose Reyes were announced co-winners of NL Player of the week honors for the week of June 11-18. It seems like only a week ago that I wrote about Carlos Beltran winning NL Player of the Week honors. Oh, yeah. It was.
