The Mets have played the entirety of their 2021 season without the services of Robinson Cano. Cano, of course, received his second PED suspension last November. The trade to acquire Cano and Edwin Diaz for Jarred Kelenic and others — which was questionable at the time and has progressively looked even worse — could be an entire discussion of its own. But the past is the past. The Mets have gone...
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Good morning, Mets fans! The Mets were officially eliminated from Wild Card contention on Friday as they fell 5-1 to the Brewers. Their elimination number in the division is just 3. Rich Hill will look to help them at least not end the season in such a funk tonight at 7:10 p.m. Latest Mets News In an article for FanSided, Robert Murray revealed that Francisco Lindor is pushing for the Mets to...
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“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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