Tag: Jeff Francoeur

Morning Briefing: Wheeler Looks To Continue Dominance In San Francisco

Good morning Mets fans! The New York Mets (59-74) had an off day on Thursday for the ninth time this season after avoiding a sweep in their three-game series with the Chicago Cubs (79-54) a day prior. Latest Mets News The Mets continue their nine-game road trip as they open up a three-game series against the San Francisco Giants (67-68) tonight. Zack Wheeler (9-6, 3.46 ERA) will get another...

MMO Exclusive Interview: Former Met Jeff Francoeur Hangs ‘Em Up

Imagine for a second that you’re a first-round draft pick, selected 23rd overall by your favorite hometown team. Just over three years later you’re making your major league debut, hitting a three-run home run for your first big league hit. In your first 39 games in the bigs, you slash .359/.380/.669, with 10 home runs, 13 doubles, triple, 31 RBIs, and 29 runs scored. Just under two...

Braves Interested in Kelly Johnson

According to David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Braves are interested in signing former Met and former Brave Kelly Johnson. If the Braves do indeed re-sign Johnson, it would mark the third straight offseason the Braves signed Johnson.  As many Mets fans will joke, this could lead to the third straight season the Mets make an in-season trade for Johnson. In 2015, the...

Marlins Acquire Francoeur In Three-Team Swap

d Jeff Francoeur’s tour of the National League East continues as the Miami Marlins acquired the veteran outfielder in a three-team swap. Frenchy has now played for every team in the NL East but the Washington Nationals. The Deal saw the Braves acquire minor league shortstop Dylan Moore from the Texas Rangers as well as minor league catcher/first baseman Matt Foley from the Marlins. In...

MMO Game Recap: Mets 6, Phillies 5

The Dark Knight returned to flushing. The New York Mets (5-3) defeated the Philadelphia Phillies (3-5) by a score of 6-5 on #HarveyDay. While Matt Harvey wasn’t as dominant as he was a week ago in Washington D.C. However, he still had a quality start, pitching six innings while giving up three earned runs and striking out eight. It was a bizarre game that had a little bit of everything. A...

Mets Officially Announce Chris Young Signing

After passing his physical, the Mets officially announced the signing of our new rightfielder Chris Young this afternoon. “Chris has had a distinguished career to this point and we think with regular playing time we think he can return to his all-star caliber performance,” GM Sandy Alderson said. “He’s a tremendous defensive outfielder, brings some power, the approach we’re...

The 2010 Mets: Where Are They Now?

If you are a Mets fan, you know that David Wright is still with team, or that Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran are in Toronto and St. Louis, respectively. But what happened to guys like Nick Evans or Rod Barajas? We have the answers. 11 Players who made it into a game in 2010 with the Mets, are still employed by the team. That would be the aforementioned David Wright, Ike Davis, Ruben Tejada...

Hits & Misses: Forever Young? Who’s At Short? A Flores For Your Thoughts?

What a week we just wrapped up and as is usually the case, there’s plenty of storylines and news we can talk about before the Mets take the field at 10:10 PM against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Who’s At Short? For the time being Terry Collins is fully intent on going with Omar Quintanilla as his everyday shortstop. “I’ve yet to see why Omar Quintanilla should lose his job. All he...

Featured Post: Examining The Upcoming Free Agent Market For Mets

In a recent interview with Matthew Cerrone of MetsBlog, ESPN’s Buster Olney talked about the free agent market, specifically how the Mets will have to approach the offseason in order to land some of the best players on the market: For example, take Shin-Soo Choo, who is a free agent this fall. I think the Mets will have to do what the Mariners had had to do, in recent years with position...

Here Comes The Throw, Here Comes The Play At The Plate… Not.

For those of you that missed it, there was a strange play that took place during the Detroit Tigers’ 7-5 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. Quite frankly, I’ve never seen anything like it before. Here’s what happened along with the accompanying video from MLB.com. During the third inning with the Tigers trailing 4-2 and base runners Prince Fielder on third and...

Ramblings About Success And Some Reminiscing

Every team has to have a number of components in order to brew a culture of winning and unity that is found in most legitimate contenders. The token ace, power bat, golden glove, and bullpen leader are a given, but just because you follow the directions of a paint by numbers doesn’t mean it will be a masterpiece. Realistically there are more cogs in the machine than we could imagine and it...

2011 Minor League Awards: Binghamton Mets

The Binghamton Mets honored three players with their annual team awards on Sunday. The team ended their 20th season in fifth place, 11.5 games back with a 65-76 record. Most Valuable Player – OF Brahiam Maldonado As Most Valuable Player, Brahiam Maldonado led the Binghamton Mets with 130 games played, 28 home runs, five triples and 16 outfield assists. He finished the 2011 season second in...

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