Initially this morning I was relieved.
I don’t have to write a game preview after waking up, I get those 20 minutes back to prep lessons for my students, work on grad school stuff, etc.
But, like every year, I’m sad. The Mets season is over and we’ll be waiting until February for videos and stills of our players getting ready for a successful 2015.
Even though we lost this season, there was plenty to be thankful for this season:
- deGrom was brilliant
- Duda broke out with a 30 homer season despite a month long platoon with Davis
- Murphy finally got national recognition
- Herrera had a successful month in the majors, making next year interesting
- Flores started to show his talent
- d’Arnaud came back from the minors strong
- Wheeler had a great full season to build momentum into next year
- Mejia and Familia became a force
And our season had some interesting notes:
- We had Valverde and Farnsworth as the closer for portions of the season
- Abreu was signed to a minor league deal, then became an everyday fixture for a couple of weeks
- We also had Lannan on our 40 man this year
Looking forward to a great off-season!
