AA Eastern League: Binghamton 9/12/1, New Hampshire 5/10/1 The Mets poured 9 runs across in the first 2 innings and cruised from there to a 9-5 victory behind 3 hits from Nick Evans and 6 RBI from Lucas Duda. Evans, Duda, Marshall Hubbard and Luis Hernandez had multi hit games for the Mets, who were 3 for 12 with RISP and left 9 on base. They drew 4 walks and struck out 5 times. Carlos Guzman...
Read MoreEarlier, Joe D. put up the question if the Mets should bring back Valentine as manager of the New York Mets. Moments ago, Brian Costa of the Star-Ledger reported, that former Mets manager, Bobby Valentine, shot down any speculation today that he could return as Mets manager if Jerry Manuel is fired. Valentine, now an analyst for ESPN, told SIRIUS XM’s Mad Dog Radio: “I don’t see that as...
Read MoreKevin L. asks – I still don’t understand why we haven’t made an attempt to sign Pedro Martinez. I read that the Phillies are trying to sign him again. Aren’t we more in need of him than the Phillies? Pedro has no interest in returning to the Mets, a team with playoff hopes diminishing as we speak. He wants to play for a winner and only wants to pitch half a season at...
Read MoreAAA International League: Buffalo 3/8/0, Pawtucket 2/13/0 in 10 innings Pat Misch had a very uneven outing today, giving up 9 hits and 2 walks in 4.2 innings to take a ND. Elmer Dessens pitched 2 scoreless (9th and 10th innings) to pick up his 2nd win of the season, after Fernando Martinez had a walkoff single to score Alex Cintron. Cintron had the only multi hit game for the Bisons, who had 8...
Read MoreOpening Day lineup had Mike Jacobs playing first and hitting clean up. Mets final game against the Rockies had Fernando Tatis playing first and batting fifth. Combined Jacobs and Tatis are 7/36 (.194), 1 home run, 5 RBIs with 10 strikeouts. Not exactly what the Mets want from their “power and clutch hitting” first basemen. And we still have plenty of time left before Daniel Murphy is...
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