Nolan McLean vs. Juan Soto with a championship on the line could be coming soon. Major League Baseball released the 30-man rosters of all 20 World Baseball Classic teams Thursday, and 17 Mets (minor leaguers included) will take part in the action set to start March 5 in the Tokyo Dome (March 4 at 10 p.m. ET in the United States) when Chinese Taipei faces Australia. McLean and Clay Holmes will...
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Tarik Skubal, the back-to-back American League Cy Young winner, has won his arbitration case and will make $32 million for the 2025 season. To say this is an unprecedented development would be an understatement. This sets a new bar for pitchers in arbitration, as Skubal in his final year of arbitration, has beaten the overall record set by Juan Soto in 2024. Skubal has shattered the previous...
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We continue our NL East positional rankings today with the catcher position. First base Second base Third base Given the nature of the position, where 120 games squatting behind the plate is a lot nowadays, we’ll look at each team’s primary player manning the position, which will cause some difficulty with where to place the Braves. (They have two quality players who will likely...
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Francisco Lindor will not play in the World Baseball Classic next month, as efforts to get him and other members of Team Puerto Rico insured have failed, according to Metsmerized’s own Mike Mayer. Lindor had planned to play in the tournament, which takes place every three years, since last year. The shortstop was going to captain Puerto Rico, which is set to host WBC games for the first...
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Nolan McLean, Carson Benge, Jonah Tong, A.J. Ewing, Jacob Reimer, Ryan Clifford and Will Watson have been named as top 100 prospects in baseball. McLean, Benge, Tong and Ewing are all prospect promotion incentive eligible as long as they spend at least 172 days on the major league roster in 2026. If they either win Rookie of the Year or place top three in MVP or Cy Young voting in any year...
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