Category Archives: 2023 Mets

Media Gets Their Wish as Mets Granted Permission to Interview Craig Counsell

25 Oct

Craig Counsell
NYPost.com:

The Mets and David Stearns can finally speak with Craig Counsell again.

Less than a week before Counsell’s contract with the Brewers expires, the Mets have received permission from Milwaukee to talk with Counsell about their open manager position, The Post’s Joel Sherman confirmed Wednesday.

SNY first reported the development.

Counsell’s contract with the Brewers is set to expire Tuesday and the Mets were initially expected to have to wait until then to speak with him about potentially following Stearns from Milwaukee to Queens.

But they can now get a jump start on the interview process to find the manager who will succeed Buck Showalter.

I honestly don’t care if Counsell ends up getting the job. It’s just the unwarranted hype that bothers me and the fact that these scribes are so dismissive of other legitimate candidates like Ron Washington.

Pete Alonso Hires Scott Boras’ Company with Free Agency Looming

6 Oct

Pete Alonso
NYPost.com:

Mets slugging star Pete Alonso has hired the BorasCorp agency to represent him as Alonso heads into his free-agent season, The Post has learned.

It’s never easy for a team to sign a superstar in his walk year, and BorasCorp — run by noted baseball agent Scott Boras — has a reputation for taking most — but not all — of his best players to free agency.

However, the Mets and owner Steve Cohen do have an excellent working relationship, with Boras and the Mets agreeing to three big free-agent deals in recent years: the three-year, $130 million Max Scherzer contract, the eight-year, $162 million Brandon Nimmo contract and a 12-year, $315 million deal for Carlos Correa that was eventually abandoned when an issue came up in the physical.

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Interview with New Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns

2 Oct

Not happy that they pretty much forced Buck Showalter to resign, but I hope that Stearns and co. don’t just listen to the media and hire Craig Counsell who is overrated in my book (guy hasn’t taken a team to the World series). Much rather they interview Ron Washington or Wally Backman or Robin Ventura for new manager. Obviously, Pete Alonso is a priority as well as getting some quality starting pitching too.

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Mets Beat Angels to End Four-Game Skid

27 Aug

Rafael Ortega
NYPost.com</strong>:

The Mets finally quieted Shohei Ohtani’s bat in his final New York appearance before free agency this winter, and two late rallies helped them avoid a weekend sweep by the Angels.

David Peterson tossed seven innings of one-run ball in his longest start of the season, until Rafael Ortega’s bases-loaded single in the ninth sent the Mets to a 3-2 walk-off win Sunday at Citi Field to halt their four-game losing skid.

“Pete’s very quietly been real competitive for us. That was the key to the game, his outing, regardless of everything else that could be talked about,” Buck Showalter said about Peterson afterward. “We needed a starter to get deep in the game and Pete dialed that up for us.

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Brewers Made Big Push to Acquire Mets’ Pete Alonso at Trade Deadline

23 Aug

Pete Alonso
NYPost.com:

Pete Alonso’s long-term future in Queens remains murky, and the Mets even reportedly explored the possibility of trading the star infielder to a surprise team at the trade deadline.

Before the Aug. 1 deadline, the Brewers made a significant push to try and acquire the All-Star, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.

Milwaukee held conversations with the Mets before and after its July 27 trade with the Pirates that brought first baseman Carlos Santana to the Brewers.

Are the Mets organization dumb enough to not know how beloved Pete Alonso is with Met fans and how nerve-wracking all this talk about him possibly not coming back is?

RELATED: Mets should show Pete Alonso the money sooner rather than later

Mets Lose Series Finale to Padres, Finish 42-48 at All-Star Break

9 Jul

Honestly, all the noise and focus that Met fans online put on possibly signing Shohei Ohtani in 2024 just served as a bad omen for 2023 in my opinion. Now here we are 6 games under .500 at the break, Scherzer and Verlander being mediocre so far, refusing to give up on the awful Daniel Vogelbach, not signing Daniel Murphy, missing our elite closer, some bad off-season decisions by Bill Eppier esp. when it comes to the pitching staff and all these stupid new rules that are killing baseball imo…I think it’s safe to say that this season is a lost cause.

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Mets DFA Tomas Nido with Omar Narvaez Returning from Injury

5 Jun

Tomas Nido
NYPost.com:

Tomas Nido is the odd man out. The longtime Mets stalwart has been designated for assignment, the club announced Monday.

Omar Narvaez has been activated and will return Tuesday in Atlanta, joining Francisco Alvarez as the Mets’ catching tandem. The veteran Narvaez said Sunday he is “100 percent” after playing in six rehab games, bouncing back from a calf strain.

Honestly I was a huge Nido fan. But with the team struggling so much this year, Nido’s hitting being anemic and pitchers raving about how well Alvarez calls a game, Nido had to be the odd man out.