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Last week, the Mets did something nobody had on their offseason bingo card unless you’re the kind of person who fills out that card after the fact: they traded Brandon Nimmo for Marcus Semien . And immediately, instantly, in the blink of a Mets fan’s heartbreak, left field became a sudden, yawning, canyon-sized void. A Daniel Vogelbach–sized hole. In other words: big, impossible to ignore, and slightly confusing. So now the question on every Mets fan’s mind is: How do we fill

The Mets’ newest second baseman, former Rangers star, Gold Glover, father of five, and now owner of the Most Spoken Words in a Zoom Call Since 2020, Marcus Semien met the New York media today for the first time. And if first impressions matter… well, Mets fans, start stretching now because this guy plays like he expects you to run out every grounder too. From the jump, Semien was vintage Semien: direct, thoughtful, polished, and sneakily funny in that “I’m a dad of five and

On a gray November morning, with Thanksgiving somehow both days away and already weighing heavily on the stomachs of Mets fans, David Stearns stepped onto a Zoom call and did something no Mets executive ever enjoys doing: explaining why he just traded Brandon Nimmo. And not just traded him… traded him to Texas, for a 35-year-old second baseman whose best years “may or may not be” be behind him depending on how optimistic you are this holiday season. Stearns opened the call th

For the first-ever Franchise Friday Strat-O-Matic showdown, baseball fans got to witness a matchup that never happened in real life: Tom Seaver vs. Sandy Koufax. Koufax retired after the 1966 season, Seaver debuted in 1967, yet here they were, as if time itself had hit “rewind and fast forward at the same time.” Seaver was magnificent, striking out 13 Dodgers over nine innings, walking just one and allowing two runs. Koufax, as if proving the baseball gods had a sense of humo

The Mets announced today that three of the franchise’s most memorable figures Carlos Beltrán, Lee Mazzilli, and Bobby Valentine will be inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in 2026. That brings the total to 38 Mets immortals and three new plaques for the wall at Citi Field, which, at the pace we’re adding them, may need its own renovation soon. Maybe not quite East Wing-of-the-White-House territory, but close enough that an architect should probably start warming up. When t

Let the record show, I’ve been driving the Max Kranick bandwagon since Day One. Don’t believe me? Go ahead and check the KinersKorner.com Facebook group archives. As the kids say, I’ve got the receipts. And why not? The guy’s got that mix every Mets fan dreams of: lifelong Mets fan ,he even attended a baseball clinic run by Al Leiter as a kid and fifteen years later caught the ceremonial first pitch from Leiter on Opening Day in 2025 — hometown roots, bulldog mentality, and a

The annual General Manager Meetings are sort of the appetizer before baseball’s offseason buffet.The Winter Meetings get all the glory, the signings, the trades, the Scott Boras monologues that go longer than a game-winning home run given up by Ryan Helsley, but the GM Meetings? That’s where everyone starts slow-cooking the rumors. And this week, the baseball world descended on Las Vegas, which feels appropriate, because nothing says baseball wants to distance itself from a g

If you’ve been a loyal reader of Kiner’s Korner over the years, you probably know I’m usually all in on most things the Mets do. I take a wait-and-see approach to most moves, rarely critical, because let’s face it anyone sitting in that chair at Citi Field making Major League hires has more baseball smarts in their pinky fingernail than I do in my entire body. That being said, this is one of the first moves in a long, long time that has me scratching my head. Time will tell,

The Hope Diamond Mets fans should be disappointed but not surprised by the outcome of the 2025 season. This was a flawed team...

Marlins 4 Mets 0  (loanDepot Park, Miami, FL) Mets record: 83-79 Mets streak: Lost 1 L10 : 5-5 WP - Edwin Cabrera (8-7) LP - Brooks...

Mets 5 Marlins 0 (loanDepot Park, Miami, FL) Mets record: 83-78 Mets streak: Won 1 WP - Clay Holmes (12-8) LP - Eury Perez (7-6) Seat...

Mets 8 Cubs 5 (Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL) Mets record: 82-77 Mets streak: Won 1 L10 : 5-5 WP - Nolan McLean 5-1 LP - Shota Imanaga...

Nationals 3 Mets 2 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 80-76 Mets streak: Lost 2 L10: 4-6 WP - Jake Irvin 9-13 LP - Sean Manaea...

The 1988 Mets were the baseball equivalent of the financial advertising disclaimer that past performance is not a guarantee of future...

Padres 7 Mets 4 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 78-74 Mets streak: Lost 1 Last 10: 2-8 WP - Adrian Morejon (12-5) LP - David...

Moments become memories, and the Mets certainly have had their share. Decades worth of memories resurfaced Saturday at Citi Field with...

I’ll be honest: at the trade deadline, I was banging the drum for the Mets to go after Luis Robert Jr. The guy is a walking highlight...

Reds 3 Mets 2 (Great American Ballpark, Cincinnati, OH) Mets record: 76-67 Mets streak: Lost 2 L10 4-6 WP - Hunter Greene (6-4) LP -...

If you’re a Mets fan, you already know how 1986 ends: a team that manager Davey Johnson declared during spring training would dominate...

A late inning implosion from Ryan Helsley sealed a 6-2 loss for the Mets.