For every dark cloud, there is a silver lining. For the 2019 New York Mets, this has been their rookie first baseman – providing a hopeful spin on an exceedingly gloomy season. With the club’s 44-51 record, they sit 13 games back of the first-place Atlanta Braves in the NL East and five games out of a Wild Card berth behind nine other teams. Times have been tough in Queens and while Mets...
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Cardinals Identifying Potential Trade Chips According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Cardinals have indicated that they’d consider right-handed pitcher Carlos Martinez, and young outfielders Tyler O’Neill and Lane Thomas as potential trade pieces this summer. Martinez, 27, is due $11.5 million dollars per year while under team control for the next two seasons. When healthy, he’s produced...
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To open up the second half of their utterly disappointing season, Mets’ first-year general manager Brodie Van Wagenen publicly addressed that the team will be sellers at the July 31 trade deadline. During his pregame presser at Marlins Park yesterday afternoon, the executive explained that the focus will be on moving expiring contracts. He expects Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom to remain...
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With the excitement of the record-breaking Midsummer Classic, the conversation in Cleveland has largely focused on a pressing controversy in Major League Baseball- the inception of the juiced baseball. During the first round of the Home Run Derby, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. set a single-round record hitting 29 homers to top Josh Hamilton’s 28 in 2008. He went on to hit a total of 91. It’s no secret...
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According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, Noah Syndergaard returned from the injured list with a request to have Tomas Nido as his personal catcher, which was soon approved by the Mets’ front office. “With what we’re trying to do with Syndergaard, keeping the ball down, [Nido] is a good complementary catcher for him,” the Mets’ skipper, Mickey Callaway commented. “He receives the ball down...
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