It’s no secret the offseason has been slow as molasses to develop this year. However, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson is hoping that will work ever in his favor. Waiting out the market to land Jay Bruce to a three-year, $39 million deal worked for New York, but hopefully they won’t have to stop there. We’re more than midway through the month of January and there is still a...
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The New York Mets made it official, announcing that Adrian Gonzalez passed his physical and making him available to answer some questions from beat writers in a conference call this afternoon. Gonzalez, 36, will be paid the major league minimum of $540,000 while his former teams, the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers, will pay the rest of the $22.3 million dollars he is owed for 2018. A...
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This is the sixth installment of the Mets 2018 top 50 prospects here at MetsMerized. Links to previous lists can be found at the end of this article. No. 20 – 3B David Thompson Ht: 6’0″ Wt: 210 lbs 2017 Level: Binghamton Rumble Ponies B/T: R/R Age: 8/28/93 (24) Age Dif: -1.2 Acquired: 4th Round of the 2015 Draft from the University of Miami 2017 MiLB Stats: 133 G, 529 PA, 62 R, 125...
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There has been a lot of talk about how the Mets need to add an infielder this offseason. Names like Mike Moustakas, Todd Frazier, and Travis Shaw have all been mentioned as possibilities. It is my job to tell you that none of those players make any sense whatsoever and would be a horrible way to spend the Mets’ limited available funds. The Mets have a third baseman, and that’s...
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Speaking with reporters at Citi Field on Wednesday, Mets GM Sandy Alderson had a lot to say about the remainder of this offseason. The most glaring development being his saying that the Mets would prefer to add a “significant” infielder via free agency rather than a trade. “I think we’d prefer to sign a free agent, only because it doesn’t require us to give up...
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