“Life is precious,” Mike Piazza said as he sat in front of the Mets backdrop, looking back and reflecting on his home run that helped unite a city nearly 20 years ago. Saturday was no ordinary day at Citi Field. The Mets held two special press conferences before the game, having Pete Alonso and Piazza speak in remembrance of the terrorist attacks that occurred 20 years ago to this...
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Last offseason, there were a surprising amount of takes declaring that Dominic Smith was the Mets’ first baseman of the future, and not Pete Alonso. I was one of the seemingly few people arguing that way too many Mets fans were overreacting a 60-game sample, and that Alonso was still the better hitter and better overall player going forward. The argument in favor of Smith doesn’t...
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The Mets’ slide has been well-documented at this point. There’s no need to go through the whole sequence of events once again; they were in first place, then very quickly, they weren’t. Entering Saturday’s game against the Nationals, they’re six games under .500 and have lost four in a row. They 8.5 games out of first place, and 9.0 games out of the second Wild Card...
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Mets manager Luis Rojas said before Saturday’s game that Francisco Lindor and Javier Baez could be back as soon as Sunday’s game. “Today is a big day,” Rojas said. The reason for the big day is that Lindor will be taking live batting practice against Noah Syndergaard on Saturday. Whether Lindor returns on Sunday will likely largely depend on how that goes. As for Baez,...
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Jeff McNeil just hasn’t gotten it going. McNeil is a great story and an easy guy to root for. He’s in the vein of a T.J. Rivera — an under-the-radar prospect who hit at every level yet was overlooked and considered by scouts to have no major league future. But of course, McNeil burst onto the scene and has done pretty much nothing but hit with the Mets, turning himself into not just...
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