J.J. Putz News Archives

I've been a Mets fan for 40 years. Looking back at 1969 and '86 with Donn Clendenon and Keith Hernandez suggests that a productive and defensively-skilled first baseman is what it takes to have a contending team.

Lost in the Billy Wagner may-or-may-not retire storyline that's floated around lately, you probably missed the news that Texas Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo will not return to his post in 2010 after what Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News describes as declining what amounted to a lame-duck offer anyway .

ON THE EVE of the wild roller-coaster ride of another major league Baseball season, it seemed like a conservative pick: Phillies threepeat as National League East champions.

Not since Edgar Allan Poe* and H. P. Lovecraft conjured the demonic creatures of the unconscious by candlelight, the wax dripping on their pages like the blonde blood of an custard monster has there been a tale of horror to rival the haunted, cursed, cast-into-Stygian-darkness 2009 season of the New York Mets , as recounted by Vanity Fair's Jim ...

Finally, the finale. The day the Mets have anticipated since they were certain Jose Reyes, Carlos Delgado and J.J. Putz weren't returning and, for sure, since they learned of Johan Santana's need for surgery ... finally, that day has arrived.

When exactly is this 2009 Mets team going to hit rock bottom? This entire year has been one disastrous moment after another, be it Carlos Delgado not being able to play since May due to injury, Oliver Perez, and JJ Putz being ineffective and injured, Jerry Manuel feuding with Ryan Church through the media, Omar Minaya and Tony Bernazard ...