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More than ever, Jerry Manuel has a stake in the Metsa moves this off-season. He is all but guaranteed to lose his job if the Mets start slowly or miss the playoffs again.

Mets fans hated their 2009 team. So it is not with blinders that I recommend the Mets bring back the guts of the roster for next year.

Mets pitcher Mike Pelfrey is one of many question marks facing the team in 2010.

Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans.

On Twitter last week, a person with the handle "GForceEditing" asked me this: "If Mets fill P,C,LF,1B holes as follows: Wolf , Molina , Holliday , Delgado - can they contend? Happy Thanksgiving!" Now, please don't tell anyone, but when someone throws such a question at me, I don't run to the players' FanGraphs pages and start crunching numbers.

Derek Lowe 194 inning pitched 15-10 with a 4.67era struck out 111 and walked 63.

The New York Mets' 2009 campaign fell apart just as the playoff races heated up in the dog days of summer.

In a post to Twitter, the National Lampoon's Sports Minute writes: a oeThe Mets might acquire Ben Sheets.

In 2009, the New York Mets were the worst baseball organization in the country, compiling the worst combined win-loss record from the minors all the way up to the bigs.

Yesterday, we covered where the top 12 hitters in the free agent market would land.

Several Mets players are participating in Winter baseball this year, andA Josh Thole and Lance Broadway are in Venezuela where there is incredible political unrest.

I can't get over the notion that all the Mets need are an outfielder and a catcher.

In the bleachers, memories are longer than even the throw-backs of opposition home runs.

A After going through a horrific, injury-plagued 2009 campaign, the New York Mets head in this winter's Hot Stove with many questions and seemingly too few answers.

The baseball gods won't allow this season from hell for Mets fans to ever end. It won't go away.

God BlessBuckner.com: Ideas For a Mets Number Two Starter Our Mets correspondent, Eno Sarris, discusses the possibility of a new arm in the Big Apple.

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.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Randy Wolf throws in the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Saturday, Sept.

Given the centrality of health-care in the current political debates and the key role injuries played in the New York Mets logging yet another disappointing year into the history books, assessing the condition of the Mets heading into 2010 in terms of diagnosis is only appropriate.A A Similar to the 2003 Mets, who came into the season with a core ...

This article is the conclusion of my series, Assessing 2009. To view recaps of sections of the season, click here .