“He's the best player the Mets have ever had — the best ballplayer New York has had since Mickey Mantle. But, like the Mets, he seems to have jumped from a confident future to a disappointing past without ever basking in the present. He's not having fun, and neither are we.”

“New Yorkers don't easily accept ball­players. They almost always come from somewhere else, itinerants and mercenar­ies, and most of them are rejected. Those who are accepted seem to have been part of New York forever. Hernandez is one of them”

A new metric for old Met tricks