This Date in Mets History: April 26
Seeing as Keith Hernandez and Mike Piazza both hit career milestones on April 26ths in the past, the chance that your favorite Met did something good today is pretty high.
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This Date in Mets History: March 25
Happy birthday wishes go out to memorable Met Lee Mazzill. Less happy ones go out to memorable (in a bad way) Met Tom Glavine.
This Date In Mets History: January 24
Thirty-three years ago today, Fred Wilpon — much vilified in recent years for the Mets' financial woes and subsequent lack of competitiveness — was being hailed as one of its saviors.
The Top 50 Mets Of All Time: #43 Tom Glavine
The first and last starts of Tom Glavine's career with the Mets were nauseating, but in between he was generally a cromulent starting pitcher in New York.
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Comparing The Mets' And Braves' Collapse Apology E-Mails
The Mets collapsed in 2007 and the Braves collapsed in 2011. Both sent apology e-mails to their fans. Let's take a look at'em.
Today in Sports History: August 5th
(Glavine recording win No. 300. Photo by Nam Y. Huh, Associated Press) 8/05/1999 - Big Mac serves up 500Reaching the plateau one year after setting the single-season home run record, Mark McGwire...
Full Version I'm kind of surprised I'm the first one to do this: the great Braves trio by WAR....
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I'm kind of surprised I'm the first one to do this: the great Braves trio by WAR. Only seasons with the Braves are included here, to get a sense of just how much the three of them were contributing when they were together.
As expected, Maddux really was the ace of the staff, and he and Glavine really did have strike-zone induced down season in 1999 (I remember them getting "squeezed" that year so vividly it's like yesterday). Glavine's first Cy Young season was fully deserved, and Smoltz's Cy Young year was at least about as good as Maddux.
Honestly, looking at this is just incredible. All three place in the top 20 of pitchers by WAR since 1953 and put up their best seasons together in one rotation. The Braves front three players alone were producing enough to take an otherwise average team towards the high 90s in wins. Nearly a 20 combined WAR in 1996!
That is dominance.
Also, I don't remember much about Maddux's 2003. What happened?! And while I have talked often about Smoltz's ability to remain amazing in his late career, looking at it in WAR terms really hits it home: he's been great at an advanced age. Really great.
