Month: October 2018

Free Agents Mets Should Avoid This Offseason

With the way Yasmani Grandal is outright struggling during the NLCS, he is invariably going to damage his value on the free agent market this offseason. Exactly how much remains to be seen, and you will likely see some people make uneducated snap decisions the Mets should not pursue Grandal this offseason based upon his struggles over a few games as opposed to them focusing on his larger body of...

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Morning Briefing: Championship Series Continue On

Good morning, Mets fans! The Red Sox beat the Astros by a score of 8-2  to take a 2-1 series lead. Boston scored five runs in the top of the eighth, four coming on Jackie Bradley Jr.’s grand slam. Their series continues tonight at 8:39 PM on TBS. Cody Bellinger brought home the game-winning run on a two-out basehit in the bottom of the 13th to give the Dodgers a 2-1 win over Milwaukee and...

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Championship Series Game Thread: Crucial Games in NLCS and ALCS

Milwaukee Brewers (2-2) at Los Angeles Dodgers (2-2) NLCS Game 5• 5:09 p.m. ET• Dodger Stadium• Los Angeles, CA LHP Wade Miley (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. LHP Clayton Kershaw (1-1, 3.27 ERA) After last night’s 13 inning game that saw the Dodgers even the NLCS at two games each, the two teams will play their final contest at Dodger Stadium before heading back to Milwaukee one way or another to play...

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Mets Formally Introduce Triple-A Affiliate, Announce Plans For Stadium Renovation

On Tuesday at NBT Bank Stadium in Syracuse, home to the Mets new Triple-A affiliate, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo was joined by Mets’ COO Jeff Wilpon to announce details about changes to the team. The Syracuse franchise had been named the Chiefs in all but three seasons since 1934, but will now be called the Syracuse Mets. Additionally, Onondaga County is working on a deal to keep...

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The 1969 Mets: Engineering A Miracle

On October 16th, 1969 at Shea Stadium, in front of 57,367 hysterical fans the New York Mets wrote the final chapter of what is still today one of the most compelling “rags-to-riches” stories in Major League Baseball history. A team that for the first seven seasons of their existence had been a laughingstock and the brunt of countless jokes, was suddenly and inexplicably sitting on...

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