Monthly Archives: December 2013

New York magazine is publishing their annual series titled “Reasons to Love New York,” and as of this writing, there are 47 reasons. Why there would need to be any reasons beyond the cronut, Shake Shack, and 24-hour dim sum … Continue reading →

No, it’s not another flashback post. Shaun Marcum has been signed, and Collin McHugh, released. But not by the Mets.

While researching something else through the MetsToday archives, I happened upon several fun flashback posts from December 2007. I’m sharing them here, for skittles and giggles. Jump into your hot tub time machine and follow the links. For one, there … Continue reading →

I meant to quickly go over the pitchers who recently joined new teams, and I will, but it turns out I missed a few position players as well. Let’s go over them, pitchers first …

There was a rash of signings over the past few days — first let’s take a quick look at the position players locked up.

It’s been nearly a week since we heard the Mets were signing Curtis Granderson — enough time for the news to digest, to sleep on it, to think it over. So here we go. After hearing about an un-Aldersonlike 4-year, … Continue reading →

Remember when some nutty blogger went on a diatribe about how the Wilpons were limiting their budget this offseason? Well, either the Wilpons found a new Ponzi scheme or Fred and Jeff weren’t lying (completely) when they said their financial … Continue reading →

So much for yesterday’s claim / complaint that the Mets won’t sign a pitcher to a multi-year deal — according to various reports, the Mets and Bartolo Colon have agreed to a two-year, $20M contract, pending a physical. Omar Minaya … Continue reading →