Home Run Applesauce: A New York Mets podcast

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. A-Rod has been in the news recently, so Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas Promote, Extend, Trade the best players from Washington Heights. After, the team talks about the St. Lucie clubhouse and why this was yet another LOLMets moment that didn’t have to be. Next, they talk about the pay raise...

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  This week, we begin by taking a look at Baseball Prospectus’s surprisingly Mets-friendly PECOTA projections and ask ourselves the eternal question: are the Mets good? Next, we call out the Mets for s...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. The Abbasid Caliphate effectively fell on this date back in 1258, as Baghdad was surrendered to the Mongols, and Steve, Ken, and Thomas try to decide what desserts are preferable from the regions it controlled in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team talks about the different things that...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  This week on the show, Chris is sick, so Allison McCague of A Pod of Their Own sits in. First up, Allison and Brian discuss the failed sale of the Mets to Steve Cohen, the Carlos Beltran mess, and just how this Mets’ off-season has been even Metsier than normal. Then, we...

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  This week, we begin by discussing the Wilpons outdoing themselves and torpedoing another potential sale of the team. (timestamp) Next, we talk about a mish mash of topics that we felt were all worthy...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. With his son playing in the Super Bowl, Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas reminisce about 1999, Pat Mahomes’ best season in a Mets uniform, and Promote, Extend, or Trade various things that were present in the world in 1999 (and it was a really good year). After, the team start discussing, dis...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. Long before he would be known primarily as the father of the reigning National Football League MVP, Pat Mahomes had a long, winding baseball career. His days as a top prospect for the Twins long past, Mahomes was an unheralded acquisition for the Mets prior to the 1999 s...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, in honor of the Seikan Tunnel connecting the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas play Promote, Extend, Trade involving various Japanese mascots. After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the next five players revealed from Amazin’...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. Coming off of a painful end to the 2007 season and with Paul LoDuca aging, Mets General Manager Omar Minaya made the decision to trade his former top prospect Lastings Milledge to bring in Brian Schneider and Ryan Church from the Washington Nationals. Considered a defens...

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  We kick things off by bidding farewell to Carlos Beltran - we really, actually hardly knew ye - and look at a few possible replacements. We also take a look at how this week illustrated Jessica Mendo...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, Steve, Lukas, Kenny, and Thomas Promote, Extend, Trade things associated with Atlantic City in honor of the birth of Enoch “Nucky” Johnson on this date in 1883. After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the next five players revealed from Amazin’ Avenue’s Top 25 pro...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  First up, Chris and Brian say “this sucks” a bunch of times as we try to make sense of the Carlos Beltran situation, the Astros sign-stealing scandal, and what exactly this means for Beltran as a future baseball official. We then look at some of the frontrunners for the...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, Steve, Lukas, Kenny, and Thomas discuss who they would rather be unfrozen from a cryogenic sleep with in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the next five players revealed from Amazin’ Avenue’s Top 25 prospects list for the 2020 season:...

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  We have returned from our holiday hiatus with special guest host Kate Feldman of the New York Daily News. We kick off 2020 with the Dellin Betances signing and the Metsiest story of all time: the Yoe...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, Steve, Lukas, Kenny, and Thomas decides which butchers to keep to keep and which butchers to send packing in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team start discussing, dissecting and analyzing the first six players revealed from Amazin’ Avenue’s Top 25 prospects list for the 2020 sea...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  Every year, Brian and Chris look back on some of their favorite music of the year. But, since the decade has wrapped up, Chris suggested an expanded look back. So, each host picked five records from the past decade to discuss. There is a Spotify playlist, which can be fo...

Welcome to UnforMETable, an Amazin’ Avenue Audio show that looks back on less heralded, more obscure Mets players from the past. After some glories in the 80s, the Mets bottomed out in 1992 and 1993, suffering incredibly disappointing seasons. With Generation K still in the minors, there didn’t seem to be much to get excited about an underachieving veteran team. Then in midseason, the unheralded R...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. With the 2020 Top 25 prospects list about to be released, Steve, Lukas, Ken, and Thomas share a few of their sleepers for the upcoming season. Steve recommends people get familiar with William Lugo and Nick MacDonald, Lukas sees good things coming from Scott Ota and Stephen Villines, Kenny...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. In a Christmas themed Promote, Extend, Trade, the team decides which Christmas carols to keep and which to get rid of. After, Steve realizes that, after 38 episodes of this show, numerous appearances on other podcasts, and countless Daily Prospect Reports and other minor league-related fea...

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  This week, we begin by discussing the two newest Mets, Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello as well as the Yoenis Cespedes financial settlement. Next, we talk about the life of the first owner in Mets his...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. First, inspired by the Boston Tea Party, the team ranks their favorite and least favorite teas in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, Steve, Lukas, and Kenny take a look at the newest players in the Mets’ minor league system, acquired via Rule 5 draft and minor league free agency. Finally, they...

In the finale of the first (and potentially only?...) ever Amazin Avenue Winter Meetings Special, Kenny and Lukas discuss the Rick Porcello signing, and discuss how the starting rotation might play out. After, they review the Mets moves during the last few days, and discuss the state of the roster as it stands, and the remaining moves they feel need to be made before the season starts. They wrap u...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore.  First up, Chris and Brian discuss the two newest Mets, Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha. While neither is very excited about either, Chris has a stronger reaction against one of the new pitchers. Next up, we discuss the inane plan to possibly now trade a starter, as well...

In today’s fourth installment of the first ever Amazin Avenue Winter Meetings Special, Kenny and Lukas discuss the Gerrit Cole and Michael Wacha signings, as well as other free agent signings from around the league. After, they talk about all of the trade rumors surrounding the Mets, including rumors involving Dom Smith, Brandon Nimmo (an annual tradition), Carlos Correa (again), Starling Marte, a...

In today’s third installment of the first ever Amazin Avenue Winter Meetings Special, Kenny and Lukas discuss the Zach Cosart trade, in which the Angels traded Zach Cosart and Will Wilson to the Giants in exchange for cash and a player to be named later, as well as the one year, $9 million contract that the Giants offered to Kevin Gausman. After, they discuss Didi Gregorious signing with the Phill...