As reported last week, right-hander Hansel Robles had his suspension reduced from three games to two. The suspension stemmed from the quick pitch thrown at the Phillies catcher Cameron Rupp on September 30th of last year. Robles appealed the suspension last year, and will serve the two games against the Kansas City Royals to open the 2016 season. Robles’ return will be a welcome sight, as he...
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Let the games begin. The New York Mets announced their pitching probables for their first two spring training games and Tuesday’s intrasquad game. Tuesday Sean Gilmartin and Robert Gsellman will start and oppose each other in Tuesday’s intrasquad game with Logan Verrett, Zack Thornton, Akeel Morris, Josh Smoker, Paul Sewald, Chase Bradford, Duane Below and Seth Lugo also slated to...
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Former Mets catcher and newly inducted Hall of Famer Mike Piazza will arrive to New York Mets Spring Training camp on Sunday to serve as a guest instructor for a few days. There may be no player more excited to see the former Mets All Star catcher than the current team catcher himself, Travis d’Arnaud. “It’s a dream,” d’Arnaud said on Saturday. “I worked with...
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Mets reliever Erik Goeddel told the Kristie Ackert of the Daily News that he played golf with Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley during the offseason while the two were in Mexico. It wasn’t something that he planned and in fact it was Erik’s brother Tyler who had arranged it. Tyler Goeddel, an outfielder in the Philadelphia system, became friends with the former Phillies All Star....
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(Robert Emrich / MiLB.com) We have decided as a team here at MMO/MMN to take a look at the best individual tools among Mets prospects. We’ll look at the talents of the position players first. They are going to be in a group of three that is in no particular order. To come up with three for each, Teddy was given first choice, Jacob second, and then finally I was last. We were not allowed to...
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