Updated Report – Nov. 19 at 13:10 Justin Willard has been officially named the Mets’ pitching coach for the 2026 season. He confirmed the news as a guest of the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast. Original Report – Nov. 1 at 17:02 The Mets are closing in on Justin Willard as their pitching coach for the 2026 season, according to Will Sammon of the Athletic. Joel Sherman of the...
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Jeff McNeil, Brandon Nimmo, Kodai Senga and Mark Vientos are all career-long Mets. They have something else in common: their names have popped up in trade rumors. Let’s take a look at how they did in 2025, their contracts and how moving each of them might affect the roster. (Assume for the sake of this exercise that the player coming back is a pitcher, which is the Mets’ greatest...
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Kazuma Okamoto Position(s): 3B/1B B/T: R/R Age: 29 (06/30/1996) 2025 Traditional Stats: 69 G, 293 PA, .327/.416/.598/1.014, 82 H, 21 2B, 15 HR, 49 RBI, 33 BB, 33 SO 2025 Advanced Stats: 210 WRC+, 11.3% BB%, 11.3% K%, .327 BABIP, .454 wOBA Rundown The 29-year-old Kazuma Okamoto will become the first position player ever posted by the Yomiuri Giants. He enters free agency as a polished, veteran...
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Good morning, Mets fans! According to Jeff Passan, Kodai Senga is considered “extremely available” in a potential trade. Multiple league executives have indicated that the team is actively shopping the right-hander as they look to overhaul their rotation. Latest Mets News There was a whole lot more Mets news on Tuesday: Edwin Díaz was one of nine players to decline the qualifying...
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Edwin Díaz rejected the Mets’ one-year, $22.025 million qualifying offer Tuesday as expected. The National League’s Reliever of the Year will continue to test the free agent market. Díaz, 31, went 6-3 with a 1.63 ERA, 0.87 WHIP and struck out 98 in 66 1/3 innings pitched this year. He saved 28 games in 31 tries. The Mets signed Díaz to a five-year, $102 million contract in 2022, but...
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