Terry Collins told reporters that Curtis Granderson is expected to play in Friday’s Grapefruit League game against the Miami Marlins. Granderson was diagnosed with pinkeye on Tuesday, but has been working out and said the condition has improved. “He feels good, the medicine has worked,” Collins said. “Tomorrow he won’t go on the trip, but he’ll be ready for...
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Let the games begin. The New York Mets announced their pitching probables for their first two spring training games and Tuesday’s intrasquad game. Tuesday Sean Gilmartin and Robert Gsellman will start and oppose each other in Tuesday’s intrasquad game with Logan Verrett, Zack Thornton, Akeel Morris, Josh Smoker, Paul Sewald, Chase Bradford, Duane Below and Seth Lugo also slated to...
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Mets reliever Erik Goeddel told the Kristie Ackert of the Daily News that he played golf with Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley during the offseason while the two were in Mexico. It wasn’t something that he planned and in fact it was Erik’s brother Tyler who had arranged it. Tyler Goeddel, an outfielder in the Philadelphia system, became friends with the former Phillies All Star....
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Right-hander Zack Wheeler tossed 10 pitches from the slope of the pitcher’s mound at Tradition Field on Saturday in Port St. Lucie. “As small as it was, it’s a big milestone,” Wheeler said. “Even if it was seven throws off the front of the mound, it’s still feet on the dirt, getting back on the slope a little bit.” It was Wheeler’s first time on a...
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Mets outfield prospect Brandon Nimmo told reporters on Thursday that he still has at least two or three more weeks of rehab left as he works his way back from a posterior tibial tendon tear in his left foot. “The tissue normally needs about six to eight weeks to heal. And this is a tricky spot. It doesn’t get a whole lot of blood flow. I got a PRP injection in there to try to get some blood flow...
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