An MMO Fan Shot by Kent Tukeli The Mets were among a handful of National League teams expected to compete for a World Series ring in 2017. Instead, New York struggles to approach .500 with just over a month to go in the regular season. No longer a realistic candidate to make the post-season, the franchise became sellers at the trade deadline. The MLB betting lines back that notion up, as the...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Viraj Sethi (Doubl) Last season, on deadline day, the Mets acquired Jay Bruce from the Cincinnati Reds for Dilson Herrera and Max Wotell. Jay Bruce would go on to carry the Mets to the Wild Card game. Okay, I’m kidding. Bruce sucked last year with the Mets; he had a .685 OPS which was significantly below the league average. After that unspeakably painful loss to the San...
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A MMO Fan Shot by Jonah Zuckerman One of the reasons the 2017 team has struggled is due to not finding an adequate replacement for the all-but-retired David Wright. Wilmer Flores has plenty of power, but has struggled to hit right-handed pitching in his career, has limited range defensively, and makes too many wild throws. T.J. Rivera has hit at every level, but has average pop and is...
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A MMO Fan Shot by Josh Consalvo “It’s part of the game”, “This is the business side of baseball” , “You try and tune that stuff out, but you know anything can happen”. These are the phrases the Major Leaguers use around this time every year, and you know what – I get it. Players need to try and take as much emotion out of it as possible, because at any moment in time, their lives could be...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Marc (mystere2417) Sandy Alderson approaches his most consequential offseason since 2013 when he signed Curtis Granderson and Bartolo Colon as free agents. With vacancies all over the diamond and in the bullpen, and with $70 million in payroll coming off the books in the form of expiring contracts of impending free agents Jay Bruce, Lucas Duda, Neil Walker, Jose Reyes, Rene...
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