Month: November 2018

11/15 Winter League Results: Scorpions Close Out AFL Season

Arizona Fall League (AFL) Mesa Solar Sox 11 – 10 Surprise Saguaros Glendale Desert Dogs 4 – 2 Salt River Rafters Peoria Javelinas 2 – 1 Scottsdale Scorpions 2B Andres Gimenez: 0-for-3, K DH Desmond Lindsay: 0-for-3 Not much to talk about in this game as the Scorpions closed out their 2018 season with a loss to the league leaders. The Scorpions will finish the year with a...

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Morning Briefing: Dr. K Turns Another Year Older Today

Good morning Mets fans! While the past few days have been spent celebrating a Mets legend in-the-making in Jacob deGrom, today we celebrate the birth of a Mets all-time legend as Dwight Gooden turns 54 years old. Latest Mets News The Mets individual tickets go on sale today at 10:00 a.m. Ken Davidoff of the New York Post wrote a piece on how Rob Manfred talked with Brodie Van Wagenen about his...

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Yelich Wins NL MVP, DeGrom Receives First Place Vote

Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers was named the National League’s Most Valuable Player. The 26-year-old received first-place votes on 29-out-of-30 ballots. Full voting results can be found here. After spending the first five years of his career with the Miami Marlins, Yelich was traded to the Brewers in January for outfielder Lewis Brinson and three minor leaguers. As it turns out,...

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Jacob DeGrom Appears to Be Staying With CAA

News has begun to dribble out regarding New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom’s future representation and all signs are pointing to deGrom staying with his current agency, albeit with a different agent. DeGrom’s former agent, Brodie Van Wagenen, the former head of Creative Artists Agency’s baseball division, was named the general manager of the Mets earlier this month. Naturally,...

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Mets Sign Lefty Reliever Ryan O’Rourke to Minors Deal

The New York Mets announced on Thursday they’ve signed lefty reliever Ryan O’Rourke to a minor league deal with an invitation to major league spring training. O’Rourke, 30, missed the entire 2017 and much of the 2018 following Tommy John surgery. The lefty had a 1.26 ERA and 0.63 WHIP 14.1 innings across four levels in the minors for the Baltimore Orioles in 2018. During that...

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