When Binghamton Met pitching coach Glenn Abbott assembled his pitching staff last spring, his group of young B-Met arms had a distinctly different profile than the cadre Abbott shaped into one of the Eastern League’s finest staffs in 2013.  Gone where the power arms of guys like Rafael Montero,

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Nothing quite compares with the explosive impact of a baseball hitting the sweet spot on a baseball bat and the ball soaring high and long and over an outfield fence for a home run.  Baseball fans love home runs.  And, of course, the home run is baseball’s quickest and

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Good field, no hit was a classic juvenile fiction book written by Duane Decker in 1947. Decker’s work became a moniker of sorts for weak hitting but superb fielding infielders in baseball eras that followed. His characterization of baseball infielders, particularly as it relates to middle infielders, was turned

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September 12, 2014, is a date Binghamton Met fans won’t soon forget.  Binghamton returned home to NYSEG Stadium after a historic road trip that saw them win the final two games of a five game series in Portland to advance to the Eastern League Championship series then win the

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Any discussion about the Binghamton Mets 2014 Eastern League Championship should start with B-Met manager Pedro Lopez. After setting a franchise record for regular season wins and taking the Eastern League’s regular season championship then falling in the first round of the championship playoffs in 2013, Lopez got a

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The New York Mets endured their sixth straight losing season in 2014, finishing 17 games back of the Washington Nationals in the National League East standings with 79 wins, after opening the season as distant 100/1 World Series longshots at sportsbooks available through http://www.bettingsports.com. But while the big club

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Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports that Alan Nero, the agent for the Korean slugging shortstop Jung-ho Kang, said he anticipates his client will be posted shortly after the December Winter Meetings. He joked, “If he were Cuban, he’d get $100 million.” MLB Trade Rumors spoke to

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