Here it is Thursday, June 18 and the New York Mets find themselves in first place with a 36-31 record and a 1 1/2 game lead over the Washington Nationals. It feels good. It’s amazing when you think about it. The Mets have played some exciting baseball this season and I couldn’t be happier with how things have transpired thus far. Our starting pitching has been everything we could...
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The Mets announced that Nelson Doubleday, Jr., the former owner of the Mets, has passed away at the age of 81. According to Doubleday’s family, the cause of death was pneumonia. “We were saddened to hear the news of the passing of Nelson Doubleday, Jr.,” The Mets said in a statement. “Nelson had a love of baseball and the Mets. On behalf of everyone at the organization, we send our...
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Daniel Murphy will not be activated from the disabled list when eligible on Saturday as was expected. General manager Sandy Alderson said the Mets are now eyeing Tuesday’s series opener at Milwaukee for Murphy’s return. (ESPN New York) Murphy has been playing in extended spring training games at Port St. Lucie since Friday, and has yet to begin a rehab assignment. But Alderson...
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Kevin Kernan of the New York Post reports that Tom Verducci is working on a cover story about the Mets’ young pitchers for Sports Illustrated. Earlier this week, Harvey was interviewed a second time by Verducci, and then he met with and interviewed Noah Syndergaard as well. Of course Harvey was the last Met featured on an SI cover, back in 2013 when the Dark Knight was born. I think this is...
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Kevin Kernan of the New York Post caught up with Former GM Omar Minaya, who now works for the Players Association, and was at Citi Field on Monday. Under his watch, the Mets signed Steven Matz, Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Wilmer Flores, Lucas Duda, Juan Lagares and other key players. “Matz has always had real good arm speed. He’s easy,” Minaya told The Post. “When we drafted him...
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