The Mets’ catching story in the 2000s begins with Mike Piazza, the face of the position and one of the defining hitters in franchise history. By the time the decade opened, Piazza was already the centerpiece of the Mets’ lineup, but the 2000 season turned that status into something larger. He was not merely a productive catcher. He was the emotional and offensive anchor of a pennant-winning team. In 2000, Piazza gave the Mets one of the great offensive seasons in club history. He hit .324...

Mets 10, Rockies 5 (Coors Field, Denver, CO) Mets record: 14-22 Mets streak: Won 3 WP - Freddy Peralta (2-3) LP - Michael Lorenzen (2-4) SV- Devin Williams (5) Seat on the Korner: Freddy Peralta We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The Main...

The story of Mets catchers in the 1990s is really two stories that collided. The first is Todd Hundley’s: a homegrown catcher, defensively trusted before he was feared, who slowly became one of the most powerful catchers baseball had ever seen. The second is Mike Piazza’s: a superstar dropped into Queens in midstream, instantly changing what the Mets looked like, what they expected from the catcher’s spot, and how the franchise imagined itself. Everyone else who caught for the Mets that...