Mets, Yankees aren’t sweating their injured aces
Other than that, how was the spring Misters Boone and Mendoza? You know besides both of you losing your ace?
The 10 Yankees, Mets with most at stake in pivotal 2024 walk years
The Yankees and Mets can’t keep everyone. So this is an accounting of the top 10 New York players with the most to play for in their walk years.
J.D. Martinez signing gives Mets flexibility, counter to NL wild-card contenders
David Stearns has always left wiggle room for the ad lib. Such is life when balancing between prioritizing the future by — among other items — seeing as much of your young players as possible and still insisting that the playoffs, in 2024, is a goal.
J.D. Martinez’s Mets season will begin with minor league at-bats
Martinez gave advanced consent for a specific minor league stint, likely 10 days, to build the at-bats he missed by being unsigned for almost all of spring training.
Mets’ wild-card chances could use a Steve Cohen boost
The Mets are projected to be in the wild card chase this season, but as the other teams expected to be in the mix with then continue to improve, they'll have to follow suit.
Steve Cohen has turned what he was ‘given’ into his new Mets beginning
And you know what I think Cohen sees now for the first time since taking over in September 2020? His team. He has largely moved beyond being “given what he was given," The Post's Joel Sherman writes.
The Mets can’t afford another Jeff McNeil disappearing act
McNeil will be mainly entrenched at second base this year rather than taking regular corner-outfield turns.
David Stearns proves he’s again sticking with his Mets plan
David Stearns has expertly navigated two worlds so far running the Mets baseball operations — “threading the needle” in his words, The Post's Joel Sherman writes.
Mets’ J.D. Davis interest a telling Brett Baty, Mark Vientos sign
Looking at the young players is the priority of this Mets season. But contending is priority 1A.
The Yankees-Mets intersections that will decide their seasons
There are intersections that cross from Queens to The Bronx, similarities that should say a lot about how the season will go in New York:
What Zack Wheeler untapped to catch up to his Mets rotation-mates
Zack Wheeler has become about the rarest commodity in the sport: the true ace. Not just someone who pitches at a high level, but a workhorse who does it in October.
Mets veterans have set a standard in learning the ‘skill’ of durability
Not all injuries are preventable. Genetics matter. So does fortune. But more and more, we learn the preventive benefits of better diet, flexibility, hydration, sleep and mental health, The Post's Joel Sherman writes.
Mets’ find themselves in hard-to-predict National League jumble
I am not much for predictions for many reasons. One is that, even if you are right, you are often not for the reasons you expected.
Astros’ Alex Bregman could be at the center of uptick in Mets-Yankees free agency battles
For most of the nearly half century of major league free agency, the New York teams have avoided each other on that financial battlefield until both almost pulled out all the stops to not get Yoshinobu Yamamoto this offsesason.
Edwin Diaz’s return is a boon to Mets’ bullpen, postseason chances
The Mets lost arguably the game’s best reliever for the season. But there also was a cascade because an elite closer impacts so much more than just the 60-ish innings he pitches.