A pitch that eluded Matt Harvey for his 2015 campaign has made its comeback during the off-season and he showed it off brilliantly in his start against the Miami Marlins this past Sunday. Matt Ehalt of NorthJersey.com spoke with the Dark Knight about the return of his slider. “It’s big,” Harvey said. “Any time you can add another weapon and it happens to be one of your...
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Lucas Duda had an addiction that not too many of us knew about, swinging. Mike Puma of the New York Post spoke with Duda and his hitting coach, Kevin Long on the issue. Duda, was said to take an average of 200 swings between batting practice and the cage on any given day. It took an intervention from Mets officials and David Wright to get him to dwindle that down to 75 swings per day and so far...
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Second baseman of the future, Dilson Herrera, who came out of Sunday’s 11-0 win over the Marlins after fouling a ball of his left kneecap, is well enough to depart the team’s complex on Monday so he can fly to Panama and play in the World Baseball Classic qualifier for Team Colombia. Herrera, suffered the injury in the top of the ninth while facing Miami Marlin’s pitcher, Bryan...
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Baseball players tend to disappear after retirement. Without the spotlight of national media, or admiration of thousands of fans, they fade back into mainstream society. They leave only memories, and their absence from the game makes it easy to forget that these guys we watched on TV are still real people. My mission is to make fans remember these forgotten players by seeking them out and...
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New York Mets legend, Mike Piazza will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame on July 24th of this year. Ahead of that date, Piazza recently went to tour the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and spoke about his feelings on being elected with John Kelkis of Fox Sports. ”It’s a little overwhelming,” Piazza said. ”You kind of feel like the race is over. It all starts to hit...
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