Latest News – July 24 After a couple of weeks of deliberation about playing Michael Conforto in center field, Mets manager Terry Collins finally took the opportunity to play Conforto in center field in spacious Marlins Park on Saturday night. After coming in as a pinch-hitter and stroking a single in the sixth inning of last night’s 7-2 loss to the Marlins, Conforto remained in the...
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The New York Mets (51-45) were defeated by the Miami Marlins (53-44) by a score of 7-2 at Marlins Park Saturday evening. With a Washington Nationals win, the Mets will fall to six games back for the division lead. Pitching: Jacob deGrom was coming off arguably the best start of his entire career heading into tonight. On the surface, this looked like one of the best pitching matchups of the...
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The New York Mets (51-44) defeated the Miami Marlins (52-44) by a score of 5-3 at Marlins Park Friday evening. With a Washington Nationals loss, the Mets will move up a game in the standings and are now five games back for the division lead. Pitching: Logan Verrett was on the mound for the Mets tonight and he did about as well as could reasonably be expected for a fifth starter. Verrett took a...
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While the Mets appear set on adding a middle reliever to bolster the relief corps, the solutions to fixing the offense and starting rotation are murky and unclear at best. It doesn’t take a baseball pundit to see that the 2016 season has not gone according to plan so far. The rotation, lauded as a stabilizing force this year, is in dire need of reinforcements. After Matt Harvey’s...
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With the trade deadline fast approaching, it is a “near certainty” that the Mets will look to add a middle reliever, Newsday’s Marc Carig reports. There will be a plethora of options on the market, ranging from the Yankees’ high end trio of relievers to the hard throwing lefties on the San Diego Padres. However, in an effort to avoid drawing from their top minor league...
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