Last year’s free agent class included quite a few short term deals for starting pitchers. Mets GM Sandy Alderson signed 41-year old righthander Bartolo Colon to a two year $20 million deal last winter and the veteran proved to be a durable workhorse who led the Mets this season with 202.1 innings pitched. The deal itself served a purpose and proved useful in 2014, but over the scope of the full...
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Sandy Alderson was kind enough to agree to an interview with MMO senior writer John Bernhardt on his weekly radio show called Tip-Off. Sandy’s interview had a number of fascinating insights and revelations, many of which we’ve already posted on MMO. As we head into Sandy’s fifth offseason as Mets GM, he was asked to describe the processes and preparation that will go into this...
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Winter League Baseball started some time ago and I thought we’d check in on the several Mets scattered across each league: Venezuelan League Vicente Lupo – Has Not Played Leon Canelon – 6 G, 2 AB, 2 R, .000/.000/.000 Jairo Perez – 20 G, .208/.269/.417, 3 2B, 4 HR Wilfredo Tovar – 19 G, .295/.295/.372, 6 2B Ryan Reid – 9 G, 4.82 ERA, 9.1 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 4 BB, 9...
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Sandy Alderson was a special guest of MMO’s John Bernhardt Tip-Off Show on Friday. He had some interesting things to say about a variety of topics regarding the Mets and their minor league system. Rather than post the entire interview in it’s entirety, I wanted to break it up into several parts so that each of his insights get the attention they deserve. John (MMO) – Despite...
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When MMO’s John Bernhardt interviewed Sandy Alderson on Friday, he acknowledged one of his offseason goals for the team. “Obviously, the Mets need to improve in left field,” he told him. In addition to possible free agent targets like Michael Cuddyer, Yasmani Tomas, Alex Rios, Nick Markakis, and Colby Rasmus, the are some options that could become available this Winter as well. One...
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