{"id":103282,"date":"2025-08-28T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103282\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:42:08","slug":"why-so-many-mlb-what-ifs-run-through-the-mets-w-andrew-wyrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103282\/","title":{"rendered":"Why So Many MLB &#8220;What-Ifs&#8221; Run Through the Mets (w\/ Andrew Wyrich)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for another edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/p\/interview-out-of-the-park-baseball?utm_source=publication-search\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil\u2019s Substack podcast<\/a>, in which I sporadically interview people on subjects that are of interest to me \u2014 and hopefully you, too. Today\u2019s guest is <\/p>\n<p>, the writer behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/almostametnewsletter.substack.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Almost A Met<\/a> newsletter, which chronicles all the near-misses, failed signings and what-if trades that seem to define so much of Mets \u2014 and MLB \u2014 history.<\/p>\n<p>In our conversation, I asked Andrew about the origins of \u201cAlmost A Met\u201d, why that franchise in particular seems to generate so many of these stories of missed connections with star players, how much baseball history is shaped by the players teams didn\u2019t land, what makes fans so drawn to these hypotheticals, and how Steve Cohen\u2019s Mets are reshaping the team\u2019s relationship with \u201calmosts\u201d\u2026 for better and for worse.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Mets fan or just a fan of blockbuster baseball trades that almost happened, <a href=\"https:\/\/almostametnewsletter.substack.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">check out Andrew\u2019s newsletter<\/a> \u2014 and if you feel like it, let me know your favorite almost-transaction from MLB history in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>(Also, special thanks to the great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tyler-lauletta-b0399667\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Lauletta<\/a> for producing this episode.)<\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/t\/baseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baseball<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/t\/interviews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for another edition of the Neil\u2019s Substack podcast, in which I sporadically interview people on subjects&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-103282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}