After a storied 20-year career in the Major Leagues, outfielder Carlos Beltran has announced his retirement — from playing. The nine-time All-Star finished his career with a .279 batting average, 435 home runs, 1,587 RBI and 312 stolen bases. He was the 1999 AL Rookie of the Year, won three Gold Glove Awards (2006-08) and two Silver Slugger Awards (2006-07), and won a World Series in 2017...
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For the fourth time in MLB history, both the National League and American League Rookie of the Year votes were unanimously decided. Cody Bellinger and Aaron Judge won the titles in their respective leagues as the results were announced Monday night. Bellinger, 22, hit .267/.352/.581 with 39 home runs (a National League rookie record) with 97 RBIs, 10 stolen bases, a 4.0 fWAR and 138 wRC+. Only...
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Today marks the second day of the 2017-18 offseason. Baseball fans are still buzzing about the World Series — Game 7 was the best-watched baseball game since the 2002 World Series Game 7 between the Angels and the Giants. Latest Mets News Ruben Amaro Jr., former General Manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, is the new Mets first base coach. He had been first base coach for the Red Sox the...
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Nobody on the Mets has been around Kevin Long longer than Curtis Granderson. Before coming to the Mets organization, Long was hitting coach for the Yankees from 2007-2014 and Granderson was there for four of those seasons from 2010-2013. In total, the two have worked together in a player-coach relationship for seven seasons. Of all the Mets, Granderson is certainly best qualified to endorse Long...
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There was a lot of chatter this summer about the possibility of Mets ace Jacob deGrom heading to Houston. Thankfully, those talks never came to fruition. Going into this offseason, some are calling for him to be traded in order to replenish the farm system. To those people I say — No. The Mets would be wise to keep deGrom for a few reasons. The first of which is pretty obvious, so...
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