Month: January 2018

Morning Briefing: Mets Set to Host Prom Pictures as Hot Stove Goes Cold

Although many hoped that the trade of Christian Yelich and the signing of Lorenzo Cain would heat up the Hot Stove, that wishing amounted to naught as Saturday was another boring day on the free-agent front. Latest on the Mets Ken Davidoff of The NY Post lambasted Mets ownership in his most recent piece. Callie Quinn’s prom tweet has finally reached 500k retweets! When the Mets promised...

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Bigger Impact: Todd Frazier or Alex Cobb?

Though there are just 18 days until pitchers and catchers report to Port St. Lucie, the New York Mets still have some holes to fill around the diamond. This past week, the team re-upped with veteran Jose Reyes on a one-year pact, but could feasibly add another body into the fold to round out the infield. A name that has been linked to the Mets this offseason is New Jersey native Todd Frazier....

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Davidoff: Meddlesome Owners Led To Much of Mets Injury Handling Issues

The Mets recently revamped their training staff, bumping Brian Chicklo up to head trainer and bringing in Jim Cavallini in the capacity of Director of Performance and Sports Science, a newly created position. However, Ken Davidoff of the New York Post published a column Saturday in which he reveals that sources told him many injuries in recent years have stemmed from Jeff Wilpon’s desire...

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Justin Dunn and David Peterson Heading In Different Directions

When Keith Law publishes his annual preseason Top 100, it serves as a measure not only to the state of an organization’s farm system, but also how a particular prospect is developing. This year, that rang true of a now much maligned Mets farm system that didn’t see their top prospects develop the way everyone believed they would. For proof of this, we need not look any further than...

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MMO Fan Shot: The Case For J.T. Realmuto

An MMO Fan Shot by Rob Walsh Here we sit approximately 19 days from pitchers and catchers and much of the top free agent class still remains and our Mets are still projecting a lineup inferior to the 70-92 team that finished last season. To their word, Sandy Alderson and Jeff Wilpon recently alluded to the fact that there are still a number of moves that the team may make to upgrade themselves...

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