Johan Santana

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• Dillon Gee gets roughed up by Phillies as Mets fall, 8-3

  the space of five pitches. He became the first Mets pitcher to surrender three homers in one inning since the Yankees rocked Johan Santana on June 8 last season at Yankee Stadium.The Mets (5-3) can still win their three-game set against the Phillies (3-5)   Read more »

• Jonathon Niese delivers as Mets' Opening Day starter

  in baseball the entire month of March was that Jonathon Niese was going to be the Mets' Opening Day starter because Johan Santana wasn't going to be ready to start the season.Niese acted as if it were no big deal. Turns out he was just acting."About three   Read more »

• It might make sense to promote Wheeler -- and sign him to a long-term deal

  Fla.The shocking revelation of another shoulder surgery looming for Johan Santana , along with the fragile nature of Shawn Marcum, put the idea of promoting Zack Wheeler back in the spotlight for the Mets this past week.That question is not going away anytime   Read more »

• Johan Santana decides to undergo shoulder surgery

  Fla. -- Johan Santana may never again throw a pitch in the major leagues. Nevertheless, for the second time in his illustrious career, the Mets ' lefthander has chosen to undergo major shoulder surgery in hopes of beating the odds by returning to the pitcher's   Read more »

• Out there in the outfield, the Mets have a lot OF question marks

  with his erratic behavior (Jordany Valdespin). Another spent time on the shelf after sacrificing his body to preserve Johan Santana 's historic moment ( Mike Baxter ).And yet another failed to hit his weight with two different teams before getting sent home   Read more »

Around the web

• Rick Anderson and pitching to contact

  through the years. In fact, in Anderson’s early years with the team, it wasn't really that prevalent at all, with guys like Johan Santana around. This past offseason, the Twins announced a drastic shift in philosophy regarding their starting pitchers (the 3:09 AM from The Hardball Times Read more »

• The making of a T-shirt mogul and leader of Mets fans

  just given certain responsibilities. People look to you for certain things.” Like the shirts that commemorated Mets pitcher Johan Santana’s no-hitter, and R.A. Dickey’s Cy Young. No-brainers, really, for a guy who makes topical Mets shirts for a living. Customers   from Capital New York Read more »

• Jordany Valdespin: Worse than everyone ever, apparently

  controversies that had come to define them in previous seasons. A respectable first half and franchise milestones—Johan Santana's no hitter, R.A. Dickey's Cy Young campaign—generated some genuine goodwill from fans and press alike in what was an otherwise   from Amazin' Avenue Read more »

• Wide spectrum of results for 2012's no-hitter class

  effort that included six pitchers. It should come as no surprise then that for the six starters -- Philip Humber, Jered Weaver, Johan Santana, Matt Cain, Felix Hernandez and Homer Bailey -- to throw no-hitters last year, their 2013 results to this point have   from MLB.com Read more »

• Making sense of Carlos Gomez's breakout 2013 season

  just .232/.288/.304 in 58 games and was promptly traded to the Minnesota Twins the following off-season in a package deal for Johan Santana. No one blamed the Mets for parting ways with Gomez, who had performed underwhelmingly at the plate in his first major   from Brew Crew Ball Read more »