Last year, the Braves were the surprise team in baseball winning the NL East by an eight game margin over the Nationals. This is a young talented group who has the talent to not only win the division again next year but also go on a run like the Greg Maddux-Tom Glavine-John Smoltz Braves teams. Freddie Freeman has become an MVP caliber player. Josh Donaldson has won an MVP and has the sixth...
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Since the New York Mets’ last rebuilding phase began at the start of this decade, the focus has been on the starting rotation. And once their competitive window opened in 2015, the team’s eventual failure or success has always been tied to how far this particular part of the roster could carry them. Some years — like in ’15 and ’16 — it worked pretty well....
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Good Morning Mets fans! With the beginning of spring, we are only one week away from regular season baseball games! (Thank God). The Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics began their regular season prematurely yesterday, which saw a run fest that ended in a Mariners win 9-7 (Box Score). Yesterday was a quiet day down in Port St. Lucie as the Mets had a rare day off as spring training winds...
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Mickey Callaway is entering his second season as the New York Mets’ skipper, but there is certainly reason to believe that he is not exactly a lock to finish the 2019 season with the team. Callaway, 43, got off to a hot start in April last year as the team went 12-2 through the first 14 games of the season and sat in first place for much of the month. However, things quickly took a turn...
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On February 7th, the Mets signed catcher Devin Mesoraco to a one-year minor league contract. The contract granted him $1.75 million once in the majors with a chance to earn $250,000 in performance bonuses based on games. What we didn’t know when the details of the contract were revealed was his upward mobility out. The upward mobility out in Mesoraco’s contract means that the Mets...
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