Good morning, Mets fans! Odds are a casino is coming. The state Gaming Facility Location Board is expected to vote Monday on whether to approve up to three casino licenses, including one for Steve Cohen and Hard Rock International’s $8 billion proposed development on 50 acres of parking lots around Citi Field. The project, which is expected to gain approval, includes a casino, Hard Rock...
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If Justin Willard’s vision becomes a reality, the 2026 Mets will have a staff full of pitchers making the most of their superpowers. Willard, 35, was named the Mets’ new pitching coach on Wednesday, confirming the news on the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast, where host Rob Bradford asked him about his coaching approach. “First of all, understanding, like what makes them...
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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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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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Good morning, Mets fans! Tom Seaver would have been 81 years old today. A Manhattan judge on Friday granted a temporary restraining order to the United States Tennis Association, which accuses the city in a lawsuit of violating the terms of a lease agreement so it can help Steve Cohen with a plan to build a casino on parking lots next to Citi Field. The USTA owns and runs the tennis complex that...
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