Collins Expected to Retire at Season’s End By Joe Rini Mercifully, the Mets 2017 season ends this Sunday in Philadelphia against the Phillies. In between the high hopes of spring training and these last two months of games that resembled spring training in personnel and lack of drama, it was too often a season of […]
BY JOE RINI “There are two types of players in this game,” said Mets manager Terry Collins last year. “Ones who have been humbled and ones who will be. And if you’ve never been humbled, you don’t know how to get through it.” After a promising rookie season in 2015, Mets outfielder Michael Conforto was […]
Alderson and Collins Weigh In on Mets BY JOE RINI It may have started like a match-up between the Angels and the Fallen Angels but perhaps the Mets 3-0 victory over the Los Angeles Angels that snapped a seven-game losing streak this past Friday, May 19, will help deliver them from the purgatory of the […]
Bullpen roles shuffled BY JOE RINI If the recent 7 and 4 homestand with its Johan Santana no-hitter seemed like a magic carpet ride, the start of the current nine game road trip must have felt like a three hour commute to work for the New York Mets. Several late inning defensive lapses contributed to […]