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 te🐎am 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 Universꦇity 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
M𒆙ets blow Game 2 🔜lead to Brewers to set up decisive wild card finale
ꦍ The Mets had it on Wednesday night — ♚until they didn't.
Emerging reliever gives Mets' weary bullpen exactly what it needed
After Luis Severino gave the Meܫts six innings, Carlos Mendoza turned to perhaps the best arm he had left to tear for the seventh and eighth innings.
Mets use huge fifth iꦅnnin🍨g to roll past Brewers in Game 1 of NL Wild Card Series
The joy rid🍨e is still going, so step in front of the Mets at your own risk. 🌱
Mets veteran ready for long-await🅰ed postseason success
MILWAUKEE — Brandon Nimmo debuted with the 🦩Mets in 2016, one year after the team’s unexpected run to the World Series that ended with a Game 5 loss to the...
Righty out for Brewers redemption in Game 1 start after Mets avoid worst-case scenari𒊎o
Luis Severino is thrilled he didn’t have to pitch M๊onday.
Mets pitcher's heroism goes beyond playoff-clinching win
✨ Tylor Megill gave the Mets a chance in the biggest start of his major league career, and that was good enough.
Mets clinch playoff spot as Francisco Lindor's ninth-inning home run caps insane win over Braves
Seven innings of quiet bats. A furious eighth-inning rally. A bullpen meltdown. The star saving the day. The Mets are going to the playoffs after an absolu🐼tely wild game.
💛 Mets name starter fo🉐r first game of crucial Braves doubleheader
Tylor Megill will be thrust onto t🌄he biggest stage of his career as Monday’s opening act for the Mets.
Mets one win away from playoffs aftꦆer star powers📖 victory over Brewers
After 160 gamesꦅ, it’s come to this for the Mets: Win once in their scheduled doubleheader against the Braves on Monday and admittance to the postseason as a wild card...
Mets star returns to action as pinch hitter a day after 🍌hurting his b🀅ack
MILWAUKEE — Francisco Alvarez was on the bench for Saturday’s game after departing the previous night with back spasms, but found his way into action. The 🧸catcher entered as a...
Mets blanked by B🦂rewers as MLB playoff path ෴gets trickier
So m🐲uch for rising up and forciꦛbly claiming a National League wild-card berth.
Francisco Lindor slots in at DH amid lingering back issue, J.D. Martinez's slump
MILWA𝔍UKEE — The Mets addressed two weaknesses in one swoop with Francisco Lindor’s move to a new “position,” at least for Saturday’s game. Lindor was in the lineup against the...
How Francisco Lindor fared in return to Mets' lineup: 'felt good enough'
If there was any benefit to the Mets’ two postponed games in Atlanta, it might h꧃ave been the extra rest it afforded Francisco Li⭕ndor.
Mets drop first game of key Brewers series in complete disaster 💃
The Mets still have eve🐼rything at stake in the regular season and the Brewers nothing, but you wouldn’t have known it by Friday’s game.
David Stearns s🌃aw no easy way out of Mets-Braves series debacle
David Stearns isn’t pointing any fingers for the logisti♕cal fiasco the Mets could be facing over the next few days.
The qualities that defined Carlos Mendoza in Year 1 as Mets manager: 'Knowing how New York works'
It’s hard to say Steve Cohen didn't make the right call in all𓂃owing David Stearns to pick hisꩲ own manager.
Time is right for Francisco Lindor's signature Mets moment
Francisco Lindor can’t win the MVP, but maybe he can carry the Mets into the playof🔯fs.
Francisco Lindor's Mets return scuttled by Atlanta weather chaos
⛦ Francisco Lindor was set for a return to the Mets’ starting lineup Wednesday, provided the team actually plays.
Mets' loss comes with Francisco Lindor silver lining
Francisco Lindor stood in the on🅠-deck circle preparing to pinch hit in the ninth inning Tuesday,ಌ but the game ended before he could get that chance.
Slumping Met ma𓄧y retu🐻rn to lineup vs. Braves, Chris Sale
J.D. Martinez is a veteran of many important late-season games, but that experience doesn’t carry much weight as a slumping player. 🎃