I’ve been thinking a lot about Daniel Murphy lately when I should be thinking a lot more about Neil Walker, since the former decamped for a new contract in D.C. while the latter is in Mets colors for the here and now. But after last season’s playoff run and Murphy’s subsequent departure for the Mets’ […]
Day: April 6, 2016
An Ode To Steady Eddie
I met Ed Kranepool once when I was a kid. It was the early 1990s, and he was sitting at a card table in the bowels of the Trenton Thunder’s new Mercer County Waterfront Park. The Thunder (Double-A affiliate of the Red Sox at the time) had opened the stadium 40 minutes from our house […]
Game recap April 5: Syndergaard deals, Walker homers in 2-0 win over Royals
In a Sentence: Noah Syndergaard unleashed his shiny new hammer of a slider and the Mets won 2-0. A 95 MPH…Slider? The Royals didn’t get multiple runners on base until the sixth inning. With the crowd revved up, Syndergaard threw four straight balls for his only walk of the afternoon. It felt like we were […]