Mets Hot Stove starts tonight at 7 p.m. on SNY, and there’s a poll up on the Mets Hot Stove web page that you can vote on. It asks which position you think the Mets should focus on this offseason, and starting pitching is thus far winning in a landslide.

OK, so I recognize that the first two installments of Culture Jammin’ have now focused on Aerosmith, but whatever. That’s not the plan for this series, but I’ll stop writing about Aerosmith when Aerosmith stops being hilarious.
They’re back together, by the way. Or maybe not. Whatever.
The reason I bring up Aerosmith is that I wanted [...]

Chris asked for an explanation on a couple of stats in the comments for the last post, and I started responding there, but the post got really long and I figured I’d throw it in the main feed here instead.
Anyway, Fangraphs.com and baseball-reference.com have pretty extensive glossaries, so I urge you to read (way, way) [...]

In the comments section for my notes on free-agent second basemen yesterday, Tom wrote:
Felipe Lopez is not the answer. There are reasons why he keeps getting moved.
I’m not trying to go after Tom here because I’m certainly not in any position to alienate readers of this site. Plus I’m not entirely certain what Tom [...]

Given the way things have gone for both the Mets and Venezuela in 2009, I’d say it’d be a good call to bring Josh Thole home. There are other winter-ball leagues, and Thole is hitting .419 with a .538 OBP down there, so they might as well find someplace safer where he could be challenged [...]