Entries from Mike's Mets tagged with 'Hot Stove'
This Blogging Life
The last thing I posted in this space was a piece about Newsday's new pricing model back in mid-November. Since then, I've probably started a dozen or so posts running the gamut from the Bay signing to reaction to Mark...
Revelation and Speculation
Bay Play Jason Bay will be roaming the vast expanse known as left field at Citi Field for the next four seasons. While I am not particularly enamored with such a development, it should be good for the Mets for...
All the Panic is Sheer Madness
As we turn the corner on another decade, the Mets find themselves at another sort of crossroad. Should (or better put--can) they go for broke, or be clever and prudent and see exactly what they have in-house? If the latter,...
My Pessimism May Have Been Optimistic!
In my most recent posts to this site, I lamented how the Mets in one season went from a legitimate World Series contender to a distant also-ran in the NL East. I also speculated that financial constraints would restrict the...
Questions of Restraint
With the torrid pace of signings and offers that send shivers down the spines of real baseball buffs, let the word go forth to all Mets fans and especially to those who toil in the Mets front office--restrain thyself from...
The Tweak's the Thing
In my previous post, we discussed some creative tweaking of the Mets roster. Let's try to put away all the diatribe aimed at the Wilpons, Minaya and Manuel and analyze just some of the various items that must be considered...
Predicting the Mets' Off-season
Several weeks ago, I wrote that the Mets would retain Minaya and Manuel and make only enough moves to give the impression that they are trying to improve the team, with an eye on the pocketbook. Well, M and M...
A Perez Deal Done?
According to Jon Heyman and Ken Rosenthal, as well as some other sources, the Mets are close to re-signing Oliver Perez. Of course, we've heard stuff like that before, but it makes sense that there would be a push to...
Failure to Spend Is Not the Problem, Part 4
The 2003 Mets began the season with the second-largest payroll in baseball, $117 million. While this figure was significantly less than the $152 million the Yankees spent, it was also $11 million more than the third place Braves. The 2003...
Odds and Ends
Sorry for not getting a post up for Sunday. The idea is still to try to post every day, but I expect I'll miss a few here and there. I don't think I have a full post in me on...
What If Lowe Goes Elsewhere?
The whole Derek Lowe saga is taking on some of the aspects of the Santana pursuit from last year. Everything you read on the subject seems to contradict what you have just previously read. You can't help but ask yourself...
All Quiet on the Free Agent Front
Here's something that I'm sure a few of you out there can identify with -- a project that takes on a life of its own. Back in December Lisa and I decided to upgrade our home entertainment experience. After some...
Restraint Runs Rampant (and why not?)
The Mets have reinvented the bullpen and have made a reasonable overture to Derek Lowe, while basically standing pat on their everyday players. In light of the painfully slow to develop free agent market, it seems to this observer that...
Time to Get a Lowe Deal Done
Happy New Year, everyone. Let's hope this is our year, Mets fans. With the bullpen picture much clearer with Francisco Rodriguez and J.J. Putz holding down the back end, it seems like we're within days of settling the rotation questions....
Mets Need To Spend Intelligently
I know I've said this before, but recent events compel me to restate this: if I wanted to be a Yankees fan I could have been one. With the Yankees recent signings of C.C. Sabathia, J.J. Burnett and Mark Teixeira,...
Minaya Leaves Vegas with a Bullpen
What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas, but Omar Minaya left there with a couple of arms that are likely to pay some dividends in Citi Field next summer. In a move that most of us expected,...
Hot Stove Warming
With the apparent signing of Francisco Rodriguez, the Mets have made the first real noise at the Winter Meetings in Vegas. But surely, Omar is on the prowl to beef up an already interesting roster. He may not have to...
Winter Meetings Day Two
To the surprise of nobody, the Mets and Francisco Rodriguez are on the verge of a deal. However, still needing a bridge to K-Rod and a couple more starters, Omar's work has barely begun. There were reports that the Mets...
Pre Winter Meetings Thoughts
Sorry, folks. I had intended to get back to more frequent posting this past week, but work problems combined with a bad cold delayed my return. As we sit here in anticipation of next week's winter meetings in Las Vegas,...
Appearance on Seven Train To Shea Show
Just a quick note that I will be talking some hot stove with Matt Pignataro on his Seven Train To Shea Mets Radio Show this Sunday night, November 30, at 7 PM. You can call into the show by dialing...
Time for Some Stovin'
I've sat down at my computer a couple of times in an attempt to get back into more frequent updates to the site. The hot stove season has always interested me in the past, but I have to admit that...
Generic Hot Stove Blog Entry
Provided as a public service for Mets bloggers everywhere (select the options below to fill any blog entry): If the Mets want to be in the postseason next year, it's clear they must address their problems [in the bullpen/at second...
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