I am as optimistic as anyone wants to be when you think that the Mets can turn this ship around, put together a run that can make this team worth watching again. When you go through years of not much promise, you just hope that maybe, just maybe this year could be different. I thought that in the first two weeks of the season when we had a good start and then just as fast as we started, the team...
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Despite a major league pedigree and respect for his tools (Baseball America Top 15 organizational prospect three years running), Binghamton Mets outfielder Cory Vaughn had yet to put all his tools together. His power and speed didn’t show up until 2012, but he hit .243. In St. Lucie in 2011, Vaughn hit .286 before his promotion, but only four home runs. After the promotion, he more than doubled...
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For a while, it looked like Terry Collin’s weird lineup choice going into the evening would actually work when Marlon Byrd ripped a three-run home run in the bottom of third. Perhaps unsurprisingly, however, the Mets would fail to score again the rest of the night and could not stage a comeback after Jay Bruce hit a go-ahead home run off Shaun Marcum in the sixth. To be fair to Marcum, he...
Read MoreThe Mets have promoted RHP Rafael Montero to Triple-A Las Vegas, according Adam Rubin of ESPN New York. Lynn Worthy of Press and Sun Bulletin, later reported that this was likely just a spot-start situation, as the B-Mets expect to have Montero back in their rotation for the end of next week. He did note, in a later tweet however, that nothing is set in stone – and referenced Collin...
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Quick Scores For May 18th Las Vegas 9, Omaha 4 (Box) Josh Satin: 3-for-5, 2 R Andrew Brown: 2-for-3, 1 3B, 1 HR, 2 BB, 4 RBI, 3 R Jamie Hoffmann: 1-for-5, 2 RBI, 1 R Zach Lutz: 2-for-5, 1 2B, 1 3B, 3 RBI Carlos Torres: 6.0 IP, 6 H, 2 HR, 2 BB, 4 ER, 5 K Greg Peavey: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 0 ER, 1 K Sean Henn: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 1 BB, 0 ER, 1 K Portland 10, Binghamton 7 (Box) Cory Vaughn: 2-for-4, 1...
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