It’s only spring training, but Luis Severino for one year and $13 million is looking like it might be a steal. The 30-year-old has performed a lot more like the pitcher who finished third in Cy Young voting in 2017 than the one whose ERA was 6.65 last season. Last night, he threw four innings of one-run ball and fanned three Astros. “Another good outing,” manager Carlos Mendoza...
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Joe Suozzi hit a sacrifice fly to score Rowdey Jordan to lift the Mets (9-8) to a 6-5 walk-off victory over the Houston Astros at Clover Park. Pitcher Dedniel Núñez, who doesn’t figure to make the Opening Day roster, surrendered four runs in the top of the ninth to set the stage for Suozzi’s heroics. Seventeen games into spring training, the Mets’ pitching looked ready. Luis...
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The San Diego Padres are finalizing a trade to acquire pitcher Dylan Cease from the Chicago White Sox, sources told Jeff Passan of ESPN. The White Sox will receive reliever Steven Wilson and three of the Padres’ top 10 prospects, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today. Cease, 28, was in trade rumors all winter after pitching to a 4.58 ERA, 1.41 WHIP and 3.72 FIP in 2023. It was a down...
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Let’s pick a JD. The Mets are reportedly linked to a pair, Martinez and Davis. (JD Drew is 48; there is no word on whether he plans to come out of retirement.) Martinez hit 33 homers and .271/.321/.572 last season (479 plate appearances) with the Dodgers. He has been in three consecutive All-Star games and six in his career. Per Fangraphs, he projects to hit 22 homers in 504 PAs this year...
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Sugar couldn’t have been sweeter. In his first game action since tearing his patellar tendon in the World Baseball Classic, Edwin Díaz entered to “Narco,” the trumpets and a standing ovation Monday night. He left after after striking out the side. “Man, I feel great,” the two-time All-Star told SNY in a dugout interview. “First time in a year coming back and...
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