Was it Werth it? Jayson Contract shakes up the winter meetings!

Seven years and one hundred and tweny six million dollars. Let that sink in. While I realize a team with the stature of The Washington Nationals have to over pay to attract top free agent talent to DC, I just have to wonder who the second highest bidder was? And for how much? Considering that he will be 32 at the start of this deal, and that most estimates had Werth signing for around four years and sixty million dollars, I am ready to vote Scott Boras into the Baseball Hall of Fame. If Marvin Miller gets in for revolutionizing baseball salaries, and George Steinbrenner gets in for being a maverick owner, then Boras should get in for being the most successful agent in the history of Major League Baseball.

Hall-of-a-day! Halladay Pitches NO-NO to blank Redlegs, 4-0!

I hope the new Mets GM was watching. Roy Halladay pitched a no hitter in his first postseason start, shutting down the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in game one of the NLDS. This is why ever MLB team with serious post season aspirations, must have not one but three front of the rotation starting pitchers. I hope The New York Mets incorporate this strategy into their new five year plan.

Takahashi, Bullpen Blank Phils for second straight night! Mets win 5-0

Jose Reyes continued his torrid hitting with a homerun and two RBI's and Rod Barajas drove in three to back the stellar pitching of Japanese lefty Hisanori Takahashi. Takahashi, improved to 4-1 with six shutout innings and the bullpen continues to impress, blanking the Phillies over the final three.
It seems for the moment that the Mets won't miss either John Maine or Oliver Perez, as the have received a marked improvement from replacement starters Takahashi and R.A. Dickey.

Note-Team speed continues to help as the Mets now have been successful in  47 out of 56 SB tries.

Mets don't knuckle under, Top Phils 8-0

The Mets rode the 35 year old arm of journeyman, and knuckleball specialist, R.A. Dickey to their third straight win as they topped the Phillies at Citi Field. Dickey, who for the second straight outing pitched 6 innings, struck out 7 batters and didn't give up a run. Raul Valdes completed the whitewash with 3 innings of shutout relief, earning his first save of the season. What a difference a day makes, as the suddenlty surging Mets are a combined 15 for 35 with runners in scoring position in their last three games. With contributions from Jeff Francoeur (1run/2hits/2rbi), Jose Reyes (3runs/3hits/1rbi/2sb), Jason Bay (2rbi), and rbi singles from Luis Castillo and Chris Carter, it was as complete a team effort you could ask for.

Home sweet home!!!! Henry White does it for The Mets!

After not hitting a walk off homerun at Citi Field in 2009, The Met's catching corps has done it in consecutive games. Henry Blanco hit his first homerun as a Met, to help pull The Mets within one game of the first place Phillies. The Mets have won consecutive games with a walk off homerun for the first time since Mike Piazza and Robin Ventura performed the feat back in 2001.