The LoHud Mets Blog

Take it away, press release! WHAT: The New York Mets host their annual Winter Blood Drive in partnership with the New York Blood Center WHO: Hundreds of Mets fans New York Blood Center staff and volunteers Mr. Met WHERE: Caesars Club, Citi Field Hodges VIP entrance WHEN: Thursday, January 3… Read More →

The news that the Mets signed Andrew Brown, recently of the Colorado organization, was met by the usual array of derision and defense of the Mets that seems all too common on Twitter right now. This is not merely a Mets phenomenon: generally, criticism draws accusations of nihilist negativity, support… Read More →

What do you do when you need an entire outfield, another starter, a bullpen, catching depth, and starting pitching depth (according to your own general manager)? Furthermore, to do it  you have, reportedly, only $7 million to spend, since the $15 million deferred of Jason Bay’s $21 million owed in… Read More →

R.A. Dickey, like Dwight Gooden, David Cone and Frank Viola, are all twenty-game winners who no longer play for the Mets.

In the coming days, assuming R.A. Dickey and the Toronto Blue Jays agree to an extension, you’ll hear plenty of talk from the New York Mets, all but acknowledging that they are giving up on 2013. Considering their financial restrictions made adding an outfield next to impossible, this was largely… Read More →

According to Ken Rosenthal, the deal between the Mets and Blue Jays that would send Josh Thole and others to Toronto for catching prospect Travis d’Arnaud, pitching prospect Noah Syndergaard and others has been agreed to by both sides. Since Thole is primarily a knuckleball catcher, the Mets have included… Read More →

This is your red alert concerning the possibility that R.A. Dickey, the elf with the guts to speak out, could be on his way to another team. Will be updating rumors @lohudmets on Twitter, and will have full breakdown the moment any deal is consummated.

Full disclosure: I consider Greg Prince a friend. But I have plenty of friends who don’t consistently write things worth reading. Greg is not one of them. So I highly recommend that you head out to Foley’s New York this Saturday and listen to Greg read from his new book,... Read More →

So we are now a week clear of the start of the winter meetings. It is December 10. There are two months plus until pitchers and catchers report to spring training, which suggests a lot of time. But each day that passes, more outfielders sign with other teams, and the… Read More →