Good Morning, Mets fans! Latest Mets News The biggest news from yesterday was the Mets hiring Jared Porter as their new general manager. Jon Heyman of MLB Network was the first to report. Heyman also confirmed Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic’s report that the Mets finalized their deal with catcher James McCann, and it is indeed going to be a four-year pact. Recent fellow Mets signee Trevor...
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Now that the minor league structure has been finalized for 2021, 120 teams have been invited to become affiliates of Major League Baseball. But many of these teams are not happy with the way MLB has handled this situation. “Have spoken with at least two dozen other owners this evening,” an owner said on Wednesday night, per a story from Evan Drellich of The Athletic. “One group...
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It’s not just the fans who are pumped up for what lies ahead in the Steve Cohen era. It’s the players, too. No one could be more excited than Dominic Smith, who was satisfied from watching Cohen’s press conference and getting to speak to him personally. “For a guy like that to take over the organization, you’re pretty happy about that one,” Smith told the New York...
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With MLB free agency and the Steve Cohen era underway, each of the editors at MMO will be brainstorming their own offseason plan. We are planning as if we were the GM and have roughly $72M to work with (a huge increase from recent years). With Cohen taking over ownership from the Wilpons, the Mets are certainly going to have a lot more freedom and flexibility than they’ve had in recent...
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Jacob deGrom has left CAA, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post. CAA, of course, was Brodie Van Wagenen’s old agency, and deGrom was actually represented by Van Wagenen long before he became the Mets’ GM. With Friday’s news of Van Wagenen leaving the organization, this switch likely doesn’t come as a coincidence. DeGrom will now be represented by the VC Sports...
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