With the St. Louis Cardinals eliminating the Dodgers and reaching the World Series again, New York Times sportswriter Tyler Kepner claims it’s easy to understand why some people think of the Cardinals as the Yankees of the National League. Only the Yankees have won more World Series championships than the Cards. This
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It’s a fact of life not awfully appealing to Met fans. In baseball, as with most things in life, in order to actualize the goals and successes you aspire, you’re going to have to give something up. That’s often a trademark of a professional athlete, musical performer, business executive, or anyone who
The Magic is Back! That was the Mets promotional slogan in the spring of 1980 after Nelson Doubleday Jr. and Fred Wilpon had purchased New York’s National League franchise. From a business standpoint, the new Met owners bought in at a perfect time. The Mets were in shambles, last place finishers in three
The growth and development of both Cesar Puello and Allan Dykstra are obvious. Both B-Met sluggers put up huge offensive numbers that dwarfed their output in previous seasons. In Dykstra’s case, gains came from a unique slugging batting approach built around patience and discipline at the plate. In Puello’s
The B-Mets had an unusual collection of guys on the roster. Individually, from a statistical viewpoint very few B-Mets would knock your socks off. But collectively as a unit, their body of work was record setting good. For example, no one is overwhelmed with a Double-A batter who hits below .280. Yet,
If the Mets organization gave out a single Comeback Player of the Year award, it would have to go to Binghamton’s Allan Dykstra. Dykstra had an outstanding season for the B-Mets selected as Binghamton’s Position Player of the Year and as the Most Valuable Player in the Eastern League. A number 1 draft