There was Mets royalty at spring training today with all-time great Mike Piazza in camp as a guest instructor for the team. As is tradition, the Mets have a number of guest instructors with them throughout spring training each year, and today saw the Hall of Fame catcher working alongside manager Buck Showalter. After lending his expertise and using his wealth of experience to help today’s...
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There’s good news and bad news from the baseball world today. Per Joel Sherman of The New York Post, MLB and the Players Association have reached a tentative agreement on a deal that will introduce some changes to the game in 2022. Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, rosters will be expanded from 26 to 28 through May 1 in order to compensate for the shortened spring training due to the...
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It was the worst of times for David Peterson, it was the best of times for Tylor Megill. Thanks to the additions of Max Scherzer and Chris Bassitt this offseason, the Mets now boast a pretty scary and stacked starting rotation heading into 2022. As a result, it has left both Peterson and Megill on the outside looking in, with both pitchers effectively having to slug it out for the sixth rotation...
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Dominic Smith is starting his revenge tour early. After suffering a down year production-wise in 2021, mainly due to a succession of injuries, Smith spent the prolonged offseason working on his swing and implementing measures to ensure he stays healthy in 2022. And it’s working. Smith started his spring with two home runs off future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer in an intrasquad game on...
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It turns out Dominic Smith was playing hurt last year. As reported by Pat Ragazzo of Sports Illustrated, Smith played through the last portion of the 2021 season with a partially torn labrum in his right shoulder. Add that to the right wrist strain and the groin injury that clearly hampered him, then it is no surprise that the first baseman/outfielder saw his play fall off a cliff. Smith...
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