Tim Britton (he/him)

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Senior writer for The Athletic covering the New York Mets.

FLUSHING, NY, April 6, 2026 – The New York Mets announced that tomorrow’s and Wednesday’s games against the Arizona Diamondbacks have been moved to 4:10 p.m. due to expected cold weather and windy conditions. As an appreciation to the fans for their understanding, commitment and flexibility, the Mets are offering a limited number of complimentary tickets to both games. For fans who have already purchased tickets for Tuesday or Wednesday, the Mets will honor those tickets and provide an additional voucher for a future game. All tickets for the originally scheduled 7:10 p.m. starts on Tuesday and Wednesday will be valid for the respective 4:10 p.m. games. Gates will open at 3:10 p.m. and parking lots will open at 2:40 p.m. METS THANK FANS As a thank you to our fans, the Mets are offering a limited number of complimentary tickets for both Tuesday and Wednesday. Tickets are subject to availability and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Fans can log onto Mets.com/Tickets and enter code THANKYOU to claim up to four tickets per account, per game. In addition, anyone currently holding a ticket for tomorrow’s or Wednesday’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks will receive a voucher for a ticket to any remaining Monday-Thursday Mets 2026 regular season home game in April and May at Citi Field, subject to availability. The digital voucher will be loaded into each attending patron's My Mets Tickets account (Mets.com/Vouchers) and will be accessible Tuesday morning. For more information, please visit Mets.com/Weather. There are now more ways than ever to get to Citi Field. The Mets encourage fans to plan ahead, explore the full range of transportation options, and pre-purchase parking or transit when possible. Please visit Mets.com/Transportation for additional details.
[what was your reaction to the bird?] "I don't know. I just looked down and looked around, like, 'Is anyone gonna grab this? Does anyone see this?' No one was looking at it, so I wasn’t about to stop the game for it. I was just sitting there eating it, and then someone saw it and I was like, 'Are you gonna pick this up?' They were chanting for me to pick it up. No. [did you see it go down?] "I don't know. I heard a thud, and I looked over. It was just down for the count. [did you think it was like an omen?] "Nah, I'm not superstitious, and it worked out.
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Furthermore, players on the 40-man roster with little chance to make the Opening Day roster are often optioned relatively early in camp; that’s because if they get hurt in camp, they end up on the major-league IL and accrue service time. (Think of Bryce Montes de Oca requiring Tommy John surgery a few springs ago.) That’s why Ross, Pintaro, Carrillo and outfielder Nick Morabito have all been optioned already.
“I will make the decision with my wife, my kids. I’ll have to make sure how the Hall of Fame process works. I haven't been able to get there yet. I want to ask them what are my options and also make a decision. “There’s no doubt that the Mets are a big part of my identity as a player. There were a lot of times, almost seven years in that organization, I got there with a big contract, and being able to stay with the team as an advisor with the baseball club, there’s no doubt the Mets have a lot of weight with that decision.
How would you feel if Alonso leaves this winter? Devastated: 10% Disappointed: 67% Indifferent: 21% Happy: 2%
"It's always difficult to tell midstream exactly where the free-agent market is. It's a little more helpful to look at it in retrospect. Every year I've been around the game, at some point in the offseason there is a cry of inflationary free agency, and then at some point in the offseason there's this worry that a bunch of players aren't going to be paid what they deserve or have jobs. This seems to be the natural cycle of the baseball offseason, and I imagine we'll experience both of those over the course of the next few months.
LOS ANGELES — And in the end, the playoff pumpkin settled at the bottom of a blue trash can in the visitors clubhouse at Dodger Stadium, nestled among bottles of Pacifico and Presidente, its magic expired two wins shy of the World Series. Late Sunday night, the lights went out on a Mets summer that lasted long enough to know the autumn chill. New York will next play next spring, with a different roster, different vibes and different expectations. Dodgers 10, Mets 5, the pennant to Los Angeles. Alas, the season nobody saw coming ended in a way nobody saw fit. “We didn’t want to lose,” Mark Vientos said. “We wanted to keep going, we wanted to win the World Series. That was the plan. It sucks.” “No one,” Jesse Winker said, “envisioned it ending.”
“That was Big Boy Shit. We thought he might have been done, he took the ball again, finished the inning and even went back out again. “He kept everything in check — physically, mentally, emotionally. Even when the big moments happen, he got out of that with the double play. The craziest thing is you have that huge burst of adrenaline and emotion in that situation, to be able to come back out and execute at a high level, that’s something that I don’t want to get lost. That was an absolutely incredible display of keeping your emotions in check. I don't know if the fans at home or in the stands will appreciate that enough. It is so hard to have that emotional release and go back out and still keep yourself under control. That was, to me, the coolest moment of the game, by far. I loved it. “It’s hard to ask him to do more. That was six zeroes. It’s hard to ask him to do more — and he fucking did it. That was awesome. That’s the shit that gets me fired up.
ATLANTA — Francisco Lindor’s tranquility belied the magnitude of the moment. As the Mets’ MVP calmly trotted around the bases, Starling Marte had raised his arms triumphantly. The dugout could barely contain his teammates. Except one, who went straight to manager Carlos Mendoza. “I’m going back out there,” Edwin Díaz told the manager. “I don’t care what you say, I’m going back out there.” Díaz had thrown 26 pitches on Sunday and 21 more in the eighth inning. He’d lost his command after forgetting to cover first base for what should have been the last out of the inning. He’d surrendered Ozzie Albies’ go-ahead three-run double, and pitching coach Jeremy Hefner had already told him his day was over. Trifles. Díaz leaned into Mendoza: “I got this s—.” Ninth-inning pleas to the manager don’t always end well in these parts. But perhaps that’s part of the sweeping change happening in Queens. Mendoza trusted Díaz, even through a one-out single and a managerial mound visit, and Díaz repaid
Matt Moore stands out as the best option. He’s been successful the past two seasons as a reliever, his curveball gives him a different look than the Mets’ other late-game options, and his changeup has meant he’s owned reverse splits the past two years. That mitigates the fears of pairing him with Brooks Raley. I still like Adam Ottavino as an option, even though a reunion looks unlikely at this point. After adjusting his repertoire and ditching his homer-prone cutter in the middle of the season, he was good down the stretch. Ryne Stanek, Phil Maton and Wandy Peralta are also solid options. Stanek is the hardest thrower in this group; he threw more than 300 pitches at 98 mph or better last season. Maton throws only 90 mph, but everything moves. He works a slider and a curve off his cutter. Peralta would be a backup plan behind Moore, though he’s been less successful holding down righties.
No, the Mets lack the kind of rotation and bullpen you generally rely on to carry you in October. However, New York possesses an offense that appears built for the postseason. As evidenced by its bashing of Gerrit Cole twice in the last month, the Mets’ lineup can go deep with the best of them. Only Baltimore has hit more homers since the Mets’ hot streak started May 30, and they’re tied for fourth in the majors in homers on the season — ahead of everyone but the Dodgers in the National League. On Thursday, New York was in the game against a dominant Chris Sale because Francisco Lindor turned one Sale mistake into two Mets runs. Homers carry offenses come October. The similarly productive but differently constituted offense in 2022 tied for 15th in the league in home runs, then watched Atlanta and San Diego outhomer it in the biggest games of the season. This Mets offense can swing a short series with its power.
Gooden was also, for so many at Citi Field Sunday, for so many watching or listening from home, the reason they cared then and care now about the New York Mets. You can search the childhood closet of any Met fan for the artifacts of that inspiration. How many still own a No. 16 jersey with racing stripes? The SI cover with his right arm stretched grotesquely yet gracefully behind his head? The souvenir from your first game at Shea, a bear in Mets uniform that you named “Doc” and made your mom etch a “16” on the back in blue marker? For one generation of fans, the Amazin’ Mets of 1969 expanded its conception of the possible, that a team so unheralded could become so unforgettable. For the next, that task belonged to Gooden, a player so good so young that he conjured the absurd. They carried 27 placards to K Korner for a reason, and you could fathom Sidd Finch because you’d witnessed Dwight Gooden.
Fans holding paid tickets for the game originally scheduled to be played at 7:10 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, may use them for the rescheduled game on Thursday, April 4 at 1:10 p.m. Season Ticket Members may exchange their ticket for tonight’s postponed game for a 2024 regular season game at Citi Field up until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 4. Following the conclusion of Thursday’s game, a digital voucher will be loaded into each attending patron’s My Mets Tickets account (accessed by clicking the Vouchers tab) for any unused tickets. The digital voucher will be accessible beginning on Friday, April 5 at 10:00 a.m. Fans may exchange the voucher for a ticket comparable in price and location to another Mets 2024 regular season home game at Citi Field (excluding the June 25-26 Subway Series vs the Yankees). Ticket holders for tonight’s game with a prepaid parking pass will automatically receive a digital parking voucher. Fans that paid for parking on-site for tonight’s game, c