Mike Puma
Background
Mike Puma has served as Mets beat reporter for the New York Post since 2010. He began covering baseball in 1998 and has reported on over 2,500 games, with the Mets and Yankees as his focus. He was part of the reporting team that broke the story an encounter with a wild boar led to injuries that derailed Yoenis Cespedes’ career. The Waterbury, Conn., native graduated from Fordham University with a biology degree (that has never been put to use) and resides in the Hudson Valley with his wife, three children and cavapoo Reese. He is the author of “If These Walls Could Talk, New York Mets.” Before coming to The Post in 2007, 💙he worked for the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport, Conn., and Waterbury (Conn.) Republican-American. Mike’s unique perspective on baseball and life can be found regularly on Twitter: @nypost_Mets
Latest Articles
🎶 What Mets starter thinks of old Yankees side in World Series
Luis Severino was impressed enough with the Yankees’ October surge that he ✱wa🙈s willing to amend the half-joking comment he made about his former team during the regular season
Mets will have very diꦫfferent questions to answerꦿs this offseason
As the Dodgers prepare to facꦚe the Yankees in the World Series, the Mets begin the quest to close the gap♎ between themselves and their West Coast rival.
Mets manager proud of Aaron Boone after Yankees fans were 'calling for his head'
Carlos Mendoza’s Yankees roots run deep, and those connections start with the team’s manage🌟r.
𒊎 Mets run out of pl🌼ayoff magic as Dodgers send them packing in crushing fashion
The Mets' magical ಞseason 🦩is over.
Mets skipper has no regrets about not carrying extra reliever despite taxed buꦜllpen
Adam Ot♍tavino was omitted from the NLCS roster, allowing the Mets to add Jeff McNeil while keeping Luisangel Acuña.
Mets ace shouldering more than just elimination-game pressure ๊
Twice in his three October starts, Manaea last🌄꧋ed only five innings.
Mets manager's hunch pays off with season on the line
✃ Carlos Mendoza inserted Jeff McNeil into the starting lineup at second base for Game🍒 5 of the NLCS against the Dodgers, placing Iglesias on the bench.
Mets' bats suddenly explode and put NLCS pressure on Dodgers
Going quietly doesn't seem to be the Mets🤪' style this season.
✱ Mets🔯 bench struggling spark plug for veteran in must-win Game 5
The Met who has been♌ at the heart of so much of the team's magic will be on the bench when they try ke𝔉ep their season alive.
The momentous Mets 🦩rise of Mark Vientos, as told by ♐a scout who got it wrong
'Anybody that tells you they always envisioned t🀅his, they're full of it.'
Here's whom the Mets are sending to the mound with season on the brink
The Mets are behind, 3🌜-1, in the best-of-seven series.
𝓰 Mets demolished again as playoff magic evaporates to put season on the brink
The Mets are running out of magic, and now running out of 🦋time to save their season.
Mets let home crowd down wꦛith Game 3 dud as Dodgers take control of NLCS 💧
The roars during pregame introductions weren☂’t supposed to be the loudest of the night, but what else was there Wednesday?
Mets lefty dominateജd Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohta𝔍ni went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts against the Mets left-hander, certainly a key — but not everything — in containing this scary Dodgers lineup.
Mets infielder steps up in huge spot to 🉐knot NLCS in tense Game 2 win
It's all 🅰even as the Mets return home. 🐭
Why Mets won't be hesitant to start Jeff McNeil in NLCS
Jeff 🍬McNeil missed over a month before returning to the Mets roster on Suไnday, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he will be limited to a bench role.
Mets rℱouted by Dodgers in total NLCS Game 1 flop
This Mets are qui🎃ckly in a hole.
Rehabbing Mets veteran has 'a good chance' to be on NLCS roster
Jeff McNeil managed second base just fine, and his final remaining test in the Arizona Fall League was to be in right fiel🍰d.
Mets decide on their NLCS Game 1 sta⛦rter
For the 🤡second consecutive playoff series, th𓄧e Mets will open Game 1 with their ace.
Veteran Met's potential return comes with big roster question
🤡 If Jeff McNeil is deemed physically ready, a spot on the Mets’ NLCS roster will belong to him -- but at whose expense?