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Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor leagues. This week, Steve Sypa, Lukas Vlahos, and Ken Lavin discuss Brett Baty, who the Mets took with the 12th overall pick in the amateur draft last night. Given the incredibly slow pace of the first two rounds of the draft, they were left to wonder what the Mets would do with their second pick, which...

Welcome to UnforMETable, a new show from Amazin’ Avenue that looks back on less heralded, more obscure, but quintessential Mets players from the past. As always, you can listen or subscribe to this and all of our wonderful Amazin’ Avenue Audio podcasts through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, o...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue in Conversation, a new podcast from Amazin’ Avenue where we invite interesting people on the show to talk about themselves, the Mets, and more. This week, we welcome former Met Josh Satin onto the show. Josh played for the Mets from 2011-2014, and made his name as a corner infielder and pinch hitter extraordinaire. He was an early Amazin’ Avenue favorite, and couldn’t hav...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. This week, Brian and Chris take a look at the Mets’ roster, and try to pinpoint just how they are staying afloat without nearly 1⁄4 of their Opening Day roster. They then debate the merits of Carlos Gomez vs Juan Lagares, and discuss the return of Todd Frazier and Wilson...

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 this past week of Mets games, which went much better than the week before and featured a lot of clutch performances from the Mets’ depth pieces. We also talk about in...

Welcome to UnforMETable, a new show from Amazin’ Avenue that looks back on less heralded, more obscure, but quintessential Mets players from the past This week, Rob Wolff travels back to the 1995 MLB Draft. In a draft that would see future major league stars such as Roy Halladay, Todd Helton, and Kerry Wood go in the first round—not to mention future Met Carlos Beltran in the second—the Mets use t...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor leagues. This week, Steve Sypa, Lukas Vlahos, and Ken Lavin discuss catastrophic Mets draft busts Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team discusses the hitter and pitcher of the week, Mark Vientos and Anthony Kay. Next, the guys take a look back at the first round of a few past Mets drafts and discuss wh...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue in Conversation, a new podcast from Amazin’ Avenue where we invite interesting people on the show to talk about themselves, the Mets, and more. Today, we welcome San Francisco Giants and ESPN broadcaster Dave Flemming to the show. On Memorial Day, Jacob deGrom and the Mets take on Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, and Dave is calling the game for ESPN. Dave is a really tho...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. This week, Brian and Chris discuss both being swept by the Marlins and sweeping the Braves, and how each series made us totally change our opinions on the team. Then, we catch up with all the roster moves and (hopefully) minor injuries that the team has suffered as of lat...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue in Conversation, a new podcast from Amazin’ Avenue where we invite interesting people on the show to talk about themselves, the Mets, and more. This week, the Mets' assistant general manager of systematic development, Adam Guttridge, joins the show. Adam discusses his baseball origin story, including rooting for a team thousands of miles away, primarily though box scores,...

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 full blown Mets situation we have on our hands, including the injuries to Seth Lugo and Yoenis Cespedes. We also discuss how Robinson Cano is not the biggest issu...

Welcome to UnforMETable, a new show from Amazin’ Avenue that looks back on less heralded, more obscure, but quintessential Mets players from the past This week, Rob Wolff travels back to the 1970s, as the Mets tried to get back to the promised land of the 1969 Miracle Mets. In 1973, they imported a light-hitting, smooth-fielding second baseman from the Atlanta Braves named Felix Millan.  Felix the...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor leagues. This week, Steve is out of town, so Ken Lavin and Lukas Vlahos discuss some Mets’ managers past in Promote, Extand, Trade. After that, we run threw the hitter and pitcher of the week, Patrick Mazeika and Anthony Kay (who we just cannot stop talking about apparently). Next, we each discuss our fa...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue in Conversation, a new podcast from Amazin’ Avenue where we invite interesting people on the show to talk about themselves, the Mets, and more. This week, we welcome a former writer for Amazin’ Avenue, Matthew Callan, to talk about his new book Yells For Ourselves: A Story of New York City and the New York Mets At the Dawn of the Millennium. The book discusses the first M...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. This week, Brian and Chris discuss the woes at the back end of the Mets’ rotation, specifically how after Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, and Zack Wheeler, there isn’t much happening right now. We then discuss the first season of Brodie Van Wagenen’s tenure as General Man...

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 look at a key upcoming stretch for the Mets, and the injuries that may make or break it for them. (0:44) CONTENT WARNING: In the second segment of this week’s show, we speak about domest...

Welcome to UnforMETable, a new show from Amazin’ Avenue that looks back on less heralded, more obscure, but quintessential Mets players from the past This week, Rob Wolff travels back to the mid 1990s, as the Mets tried to build on Generation K by bringing in a couple of veteran outfielders, including Bernard Gilkey—would would go on to have one of the great single seasons in Mets history—which le...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor leagues. This week, Steve Sypa and Lukas Vlahos find some good in the bad in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team discusses the hitter and pitcher of the week, Carlos Gomez and Harol Gonzalez. Next, the guys discuss the 2019 MLB Draft and share who they will be following the closest. Finally, the team...

Welcome to Amazin’ Avenue Audio (The Show), the new/old favorite from Amazin’ Avenue editors Chris McShane and Brian Salvatore. This week, Allison McCague (@PetitePhD) of A Pod of Their Own sits in for Chris, and she and Brian discuss the Mets’ catching situation, specifically the Travis d’Arnaud release, the Devin Mesoraco debacle, and the offensive prowess of Tomas Nido. Then, we discuss the Mic...

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 discuss the sad state of the Mets, including the Adeiny Hechavarria/Dominic Smith roster move, the pitching injuries, and the beleaguered offense. CONTENT WARNING: In the second segment...

Welcome to UnforMETable, a new show from Amazin’ Avenue that looks back on less heralded, more obscure, but quintessential Mets players from the past This week, Rob Wolff travels back to the late 1970s, an era of big hair (but fortunately no plastic grass—at least at Shea). We’ll take a look at the brief but joyful Met tenure of the young, afro-sporting Nino Espinosa.  Hear about Espinosa’s impres...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the new podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor leagues. This week, Steve Sypa, Lukas Vlahos, and Ken Lavin go back in time to 1996 for Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team discusses the hitter and pitcher of the week, Will Toffey and Tommy Wilson. Next, the guys discuss minor league baseball’s Copa de la Diversión initiative and share their fa...

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 welcome Kellyanne Healey, Amazin’ Avenue moderator, and we begin by discussing how the Mets bungled the backup catcher situation and how the baseball might be affecting the pitchers. Nex...

Welcome to UnforMETable, a new show from Amazin’ Avenue that looks back on less heralded, more obscure, but quintessential Mets players from the past This week, Rob Wolff travels back to the 1973-74 seasons to take a look at the brief but memorable Mets tenure of a gawky, gangly long shot 31st round draft pick that the Shea faithful fondly embraced as ‘The Stork.’  A true 70s character, the medita...

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the new podcast from Amazin’ Avenue focusing on the Mets’ minor leagues. This week, Steve Sypa, Lukas Vlahos, and Ken Lavin play a Passover-inspired Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the team discusses the hitter and pitcher of the week, Danny Espinosa and Anthony Kay. Next, the guys discuss the the conservative philosophy of the Alderson-era Mets in regards to mino...