Collins To Mets: 'Time To Step Up And Play Like Veterans'
Terry Collins expects the Mets to be a playoff team, but he's letting his players know that they should be doing their talking on the field.
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Terry Collins expects the Mets to be a playoff team, but he's letting his players know that they should be doing their talking on the field.
The 29-year-old agreed last month to an $8 million, one-year contract. He is eligible for free agency after the World Series.
It wasn't that Noah Syndergaard had a bad year in 2014. It's just that he expected to be wearing a big-league uniform with "Mets" emblazoned across the front at some point last year. That never happened.
"To be in the big leagues has been my dream ever since I was a little kid ... I use it as a little extra motivation, because I don't want to hear that phone call again."
Jerry Recco proceeded to do his thing, which he began with some news from spring training (not Boomer's beloved sport of hockey).
"It's just a little sore, it's really a non-issue," the slugger said Tuesday, when Mets position players were due to report to spring training.
Every player strives for consistency and not many achieve it, be it month to month or year to year. But Granderson is shooting for it again this year.
Is the city's baseball landscape about to shift? Curtis Granderson, who played for the Yankees from 2010-13 and is entering his second season with the Mets, certainly thinks so.
The Mets' pitching staff is loaded, so who will get the ball on opening day when the Amazin's take on the division-rival Nationals on April 6?
Commissioner Rob Manfred has touted the benefits of modernizing baseball. But he's open to going old school when it comes to the number of games played in a season.
This is a guy who went to the postseason six times in nine years with the Twins, and he strongly believes that the Mets are built for the postseason -- if they can get there.
He didn't limit the session to fastballs. The 25-year-old threw some secondary stuff, and tossed a devastating curveball that manager Terry Collins called "stinkin' dynamite."
The "thing" is presumably the NL East, which the Mets haven't won since their last trip to the postseason in 2006.
For all of the statistical analysis used in baseball today, David Wright sees things very simply: "There's no question in my mind, if I do what I'm capable of doing, we're a better offense."
Manager Terry Collins had some rather interesting things to say about his team, his players and his expectations for 2015 over the last couple of days. So let's take a listen back.
