Mets News

Morning Briefing: First Overall Pick Paul Skenes Set to Make Debut

Good morning, Mets fans! The Pittsburgh Pirates officially called up the firsst overall pick in the 2023 MLB draft, Paul Skenes, on Wednesday. The national champion pitcher at LSU has had a meteoric rise through the ranks, from transferring from Air Force to LSU over two years ago to getting the call to the big leagues. Skenes dominated his last year in college and continued that in minor...

Mets Thoughts

Mets Minors 2024 Prospects: No. 8 Kevin Parada

No. 8: Kevin Parada, C B/T: R/R Age: 8/3/2001 (22) Ht: 5’11” Wt: 197 lb. Acquired: 2022 June Amateur Draft – Round 1, Pick 11 (Georgia Tech) ETA: 2026 Previous Rank: 3 2024 Statistics (Binghamton – Double-A) – 22 G, .167 BA, .536 OPS, 2 HR, 3 XBH, 8 R, 9 RBI, 0 SB 11/29 BB/K Disclaimer: All prospects rankings were made in the preseason and have not been adjusted for play...

Mets Minors

Mets Minors 2024 Prospects: No. 8 Kevin Parada

Interviews

MMO Weekly Episode 72: Mets Pitching Prospect Paul Gervase

Mets fans, an all-new episode is here! This week I’m joined by Mets pitching prospect Paul Gervase! We had some great discussions about his 2023 season and experiencing a playoff run with Binghamton, how biomechanics and other training have taken him from a little-known division three player to LSU and eventually to the professionals, expectations for the 2024 season, and much more! What...

Fan Shot

Fan Shot: Mets Should Still Consider 6-Man Rotation

This fan-shot is by Tom Sokol Baseball’s starting pitchers are throwing harder and getting injured at a higher rate than ever before. Starting pitcher innings and pitch counts are decreasing year after year. Something needs to change in baseball around the starting pitcher, and one possibility is the idea of a six-man rotation. We already see six-man rotations in Japan, and we saw it in...

MLB News

Hall of Fame Manager Whitey Herzog Dies at 92

Whitey Herzog, a Hall of Fame manager who led the St. Louis Cardinals to three World Series and the 1982 championship and worked for the Mets as a coach and director of player development from 1966-1972, has died. He was 92. “Whitey spent his last few days surrounded by his family,” the Herzog family said in a statement released through the Cardinals. “We have so appreciated...

Podcasts

MMO Weekly Episode 77: Tim Britton Talks Mets Early Struggles

The Mets have started the 2024 season 0-4, followed by multiple postponements, and fans are understandably restless. Tim Britton of The Athletic joined MMO Weekly to talk about the Mets’ early-season struggles. Britton also discusses the state of the Mets starting rotation after the signing of Julio Teheran to a major league deal. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow us...

Mets History

2024 Topps Heritage Returns to 1975

One of Topps’ most anticipated releases of the year, 2024 Topps Heritage, is in stores now. This year’s release takes collectors back to a classic set and the most imaginative design from a decade of simple designs that ranged from iconic to downright boring. The first half of the decade featured iconic single-color designs in 1970 (gray), 1971 (black), and 1973 (white), as well as the...