More good news comes from the Mets’ farm system. On the heels of Sunday night’s promotion-palooza for SS Jett Williams, OF Carson Benge, RHP Jonah Tong and 1B/OF Ryan Clifford (among more!), Benge, Nolan McLean, Tong, Williams and Brandon Sproat were named to Baseball America’s 2025 Top 100 Prospect List. MLB Pipeline also released their updated Top 100 Prospect List Monday,...
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Another rough stretch for the Mets, who went 0-6 last week. Most disheartening were the blown late leads in multiple games. They’ve fallen to second place in the NL East and dropped to the third spot in the Wild Card race. With the Cincinnati Reds’ win on Sunday, the Mets hold just a 1.5-game lead for the final Wild Card spot in the NL. Something has to jolt this team to life as the season...
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It can’t get any worse for the New York Mets, can it? It sure feels like this team has now hit rock bottom. If this isn’t rock bottom, then I dread to think what the next few weeks may have in store. The Mets blew two leads on the way to being swept in Milwaukee by the Brewers over the weekend. It sure got ugly at times. As a result, New York has now lost seven straight and 11 of its...
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The movie Groundhog Day takes place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a weatherman re-living the same day over and over again. The Mets’ version of Groundhog Day is a traveling circus, and they just finished a weekend in Milwaukee. New York got swept in a three-game series, is in the middle of a seven-game losing streak, and seems to be losing the same way over...
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Here is a 35-second video courtesy of MLB Pipeline showing strike three of each of Nolan McLean’s seven strikeouts Sunday for Triple-A Syracuse. He has struck out 97 in 87 1/3 innings and pitched to a 2.78 ERA, which would lead the International League if he had enough innings to qualify. And here is Jonah Tong striking out top Yankees prospect George Lombard. Tong fanned eight for...
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