Blog's 2guys

A year ago at this time, the Mets had two left-handed, power-hitting first basemen, Lucas Duda and Ike Davis. In 2012, Davis had been much more productive than Duda when at his best, and  mind-numbingly bad at his worst. The bad stuff was not for a short period; it went…

I’ve been buying various baseball annuals since the mid-1980′s. Beginning in 2000, I’ve picked up Baseball Prospectus every year. I have a love/hate relationship with those good folks — the condescending, dogmatic attitudes sometimes make me want to hurl, but overall they are well-informed, insightful, and funny. BP is the heir-apparant to…

* May 22, 1998: New York Mets trade Preston Wilson, Geoff Goetz and Ed Yarnell to the Florida Marlins for Mike Piazza.    Mike: One thing I look at with trades is which team got the best player. Depth is nice, but it takes difference makers to win. And winning is the goal, not putting…

A lot of fans have been calling for the Mets to shut down Jenrry Mejia before he injures himself farther. The calf, the hernia, the back. Enough already. And others look at David Wright — baseball’s saddest player, and the face of the Mets franchise — and say, hey, let’s give…