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The Mets make their first road trip of the spring, heading to West Palm Beach. Yesterday the Astros B team (split squad road squad) trounced the Mets 10-1. Despite the score, we got to see deGrom for the first time this year (one run over one inning), an Alonso double, a failed dive by Tebow, Tebow getting completely robbed and the debut of Wilson Ramos who went two-for-two at the plate.

Mets Lineup

  1. Jeff McNeil LF
  2. Juan Lagares CF
  3. Michael Conforto RF
  4. Pete Alonso 1B
  5. Keon Broxton DH
  6. Andres Gimenez SS
  7. Tomas Nido C
  8. David Thompson 3B
  9. Dilson Herrera 2B

Starting Pitcher – Noah Syndergaard

Astros Lineup

  1. George Springer CF
  2. Jose Altuve DH
  3. Josh Reddick LF
  4. Yuli Gurriel 3B
  5. Tyler White 1B
  6. Robinson Chirinos C
  7. Ronnie Dawson RF
  8. Jack Mayfield SS
  9. Nick Tanielu 2B

Starting Pitcher – Justin Verlander

Noah Syndergaard is coming off a season where he pitched in 25 games posting a 3.03 ERA over 154.1 innings with a 2.80 FIP, 1.212 WHIP (career high) and a 121 ERA+. It feels like forever ago there were rumors of BWV trading Syndergaard for Realmuto or making a package for Syndergaard to go somewhere to make the roster better. Thankfully that never happened and the Mets have kept one of the best 1-2-3 top of the rotations in baseball together.

Things to watch for in no particular order:

  1. PJ Conlon is listed on the pitching schedule today! After a few of years of dominating in the minors, even with soft stuff, he finally made his major league debut last year. He labored through a few games for the Mets, got picked up by the Dodgers as the Mets tried to reassign him and then ultimately ended up back with the Mets.
  2. Until the Justin Wilson signing, Daniel Zamora, scheduled to pitch today, was the only lefty on the Mets roster. The Mets have added a lot of NRI lefties to compete against Zamora who hasn’t seen a ton of work in the majors yet.
  3. Speaking of lefties brought into to compete against Daniel Zamora, we’ll see Luis Avilan who with a strong spring could easily make the roster
  4. The top of today’s line up (1-4) could very well be a lineup we see this year when Nimmo gets a day off.
  5. A day after going 0-3 at the plate, Broxton is getting another look at the plate to see if he can get his bat going.

Thorday on a Monday! Take that Monday Blues!

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