Tim Britton

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Tim Britton

NEW YORK - And finally, after weeks of struggling with an average on the interstate, New York's superstar came through with a big game. Is it Juan Soto or Francisco Lindor we're talking about? For the Mets, it was both Friday night. In a 4-2 win over the Rockies, Lindor homered from both sides of the plate, and Soto delivered just his second multihit game in three weeks. It was a night of exhaling for the Mets' linchpins.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Tim Britton

Editor's note: The Athletic is marking 2025 by naming an MLB All-Quarter Century Team, selected by Jayson Stark. We invited readers to take our survey and make their picks for the best players at each position since 2000, with the results announced in an upcoming story. Some of our beat writers are picking All-Quarter Century Teams for the teams they cover. Check this page to find all of our All-Quarter Century Team coverage. The New York Mets entered the 2000s in a good place.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Tim Britton

At the dawn of this century, the designated hitter was confined to the American League, the Astros played in a six-team National League Central, there was one wild card per league and home-field advantage for the World Series was determined on an alternating basis.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Tim Britton

NEW YORK - Brandon Nimmo scrolls through the photos on his phone, through row after row of his infant daughter, to two screenshots he took side by side earlier this year - the purest evidence, in his mind, of what it's like to hit baseballs at Citi Field. The first is a home run Nimmo hit late last June off Houston's Bryan Abreu - one he struck at 103.5 mph with a 23-degree launch angle that traveled 412 feet to left-center.

1 week ago | myheraldreview.com | Tim Britton |Johnny Flores Jr

We’re coming out of Memorial Day weekend, which is right around when things really start to matter in the MLB season. It’s not that March and April games don’t make an impact, but by Memorial Day, there’s a good enough sample to know the storylines, stats and series that will dominate the next 100 games or so. Speaking of storylines, we’re highlighting each team’s early MVP this week. Some of these are no-brainers.