The Washington Nationals are coming to the Mets today as the Mets plan on hiding their regular pitchers again. Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom will be pitching in a “B” game while reliever Jeurys Familia, who was brought back this offseason on a three-year, $30 million deal, will get the start today. Yesterday Hector Santiago was given his first start of the Spring and things did not go well...
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The Mets have fallen to three games below .500 in games that don’t matter as they face the Nationals today in a game that really won’t matter from a starting pitcher perspective. As we’ve discussed each of the last two game previews, the Mets are starting to hide their regulars from the Nationals/Marlins thus Jeurys Familia and Justin Wilson will be pitching in the “B” game today. This means the...
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Happy Saturday! Today might be the last day for a while you see a starting pitcher for the Mets in a major league game. Yesterday we discussed how often the Mets are playing the Marlins and Nationals over the next week, so in response, as they do every year around this point, the rotation starting with deGrom tomorrow will be doing their final tuneup in “B” games on the backfield. But that’s all...
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The Mets play against the Nationals today, the Marlins tomorrow, the Nationals on Sunday, the Nationals on Monday, the Marlins on Tuesday and the Marlins on Thursday. Essentially, in their last 10ish days of spring training games they are playing half of the NL East over and over and over again. This is routinely the argument made for the Mets moving their Spring Training facility to avoid this....
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Happy Pi Day! The Mets are one game below .500 in games that don’t matter as they head to the Cardinals today. Yesterday, Cano hit a pie in the sky homer that went way out and provided the only runs as the Mets beat the Astros 2-1. While Cano’s strength was notable, the real apple (pie) of my eye went to Noah Syndergaard. He made mince meat (pie) of the Astros lineup allowing 2 hits and 2 walks...
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