It’s officially trade season, ladies and gentlemen. The All-Star break has come and gone, which means that soon it’s time for teams to truthfully evaluate where they are this season. Sandy Alderson was right in saying that the trade market is only beginning to materialize at this point in the season, because no matter how badly a front office pursues a player in June, it’s...
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Stat Line: 6 IP, 2 R, 3 H, 8 SO, 0 BB Jacob deGrom deGrominant once again. DeGrom showed an exceptional pitch command coupled with sharp pitch movement, throwing four pitches at a 65% or better strike rate and producing a swing and miss with each pitch. In this article, I discuss deGrom’s most and least impressive moments from yesterday evenings 7-2 victory over the Washington Nationals. First...
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Stat Line: 7 IP, 5 R, 5 H, 3 SO, 4 BB “It was one of those games where I need to put up zeroes earlier in the game, and I wasn’t able to do that. But I think I’m pretty happy with the way that the last couple of innings went… Unfortunately, it was a big series and I needed to find it earlier and I wasn’t able to do that.” Pitching on eight days of rest and...
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Joel Sherman of the New York Post the Mets should consider outfielder Ryan Raburn of the Cleveland Indians as a useful player that could help the Mets for the rest of this season and next. Cleveland is in the market for young and controllable bats, he writes, and they are shopping Raburn and lefty swinging outfielder David Murphy. In return, the Mets could give up minor league infielders Gavin...
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David Wright remains uncleared to begin baseball activity, general manager Sandy Alderson told Adam Rubin of ESPN New York on Monday. “No change,” Alderson indicated via email when asked if Wright’s status had changed as a result of his weekly Monday examination with back specialist Robert Watkins in Los Angeles. Two weeks ago, manager Terry Collins said Wright was making...
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