Is Jerry Manuel putting a gun to his own head by shifting Jose Reyes out of the leadoff spot? Oh, baby! Spring Training games start Wednesday – meaning that in less than 24 hours, we’re going to be checking out boxscores. It doesn’t get any sweeter than that. Well, except checking out boxscore...

Steve Kelley of The Seattle Times catches up with former Met Aaron Heilman to ask him about his role with the Mariners this year and his time in New York. Heilman, as quoted by Kelley: “Playing in New York is the only existence I’ve known and I think you get used to it. You learn to acce...

It seems to me that the excitement surrounding K-Rod has been a bit muted. After all, the Mets got their big fish last winter in Johan Santana and Met fans were so excited that they were stripping down to their underwear and diving into vats of Crisco ... and where did it get them? Besides acne, it ...

Don't worry ... there's plenty of winter left for the Mets to screw things up. But I have to briefly come to their defense. It was counterproductive in the winter of 2006 to let go of Chad Bradford, who was a huge part of the Mets bullpen when the team won the N.L. East. Since then, the bullpen has ...

This talk about Aaron Heilman becoming a starter isn't going away ... like the Blob, it keeps growing and growing. That's because unlike the past where the Mets organization has been universally behind Heilman as a reliever, we now have a groundswell of support for Heilman: Starter. "I'm all for Aar...

Six innings. Two hits. Three walks. No runs. Game 5 of the ALCS. Craig Sager can't even keep a straight face when asking Chuck Lamar about the engineering the trade with the Mets. But hey, Scott's bullpen blew the game so in some ways, it's like he never left, right? It's all right though. I'm sure ...

The start of tonight’s game was delayed due to the Reds’ Hall of Fame ceremonies running longer than anticipated (apparently, Barry Larkin gave a rather lengthy speech), and after watching lots and lots of double plays and stranded runners and blown calls and sloppy defense, I don’...

Okay, so maybe it wasn’t perfect, but this game was not played in an environment that lends itself to pitchers’ duels (food for thought: how many of the home runs hit tonight would have been routine fly balls at Shea?).  This game was straight out of 2006, when the offense picked up the...

Johan Santana had been pitching brilliantly for the past month and a half, he just hadn’t gotten any wins. But he finally got off the shnide Wednesday night at Shea, ending up on the good side of a 5-0 victory. Santana pitched 5 shutout frames, giving up 3 hits and striking out 5 Giants before...

Don’t look now, but the New York Mess (er, Mets) are (drumroll, please) back to a game over .500. They got there at the expense of their number one National League East nemesis. And, they got there in spite of their own most arduous obstacle. Themselves. No one wants to go quite so far as to s...