Things have not been going great recently for Michael Conforto, who has had a quietly good season while being overshadowed by the stardom of Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil. Conforto entered Tuesday’s game just 6-for-his-last-49, with a .453 OPS in that span (14 games). Despite the ups and downs of his 2019 campaign, he still entered the game with a solid 119 wRC+ and 1.6 fWAR. The outfielder...
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According to Andy Martino of SNY, the Mets have sent former GM and current talent evaluator Omar Minaya to scout the Yankees’ top pitching prospect, Deivi Garcia. Garcia has been named the Yankees’ first or second best prospect by multiple major outlets, and was recently named the 25th best prospect in all of baseball according to Baseball Prospectus’s Midseason Top 50. After...
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According to a report from Tim Healey of Newsday, Mets starter Zack Wheeler has been placed on the injured list with right shoulder fatigue. Wheeler is coming off a mediocre outing last Sunday when he gave up six runs in five-plus innings to the Phillies. Wheeler, who is one of the Mets’ biggest trade chips as we near the trading deadline, was given an extra start before the All-Star break...
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Without a doubt, the Mets’ blockbuster trade for Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz looked risky at the time of the deal, and looks even worse now at the midpoint of the 2019 season. While giving away Jarred Kelenic and Justin Dunn was a tough pill to swallow, and taking on Cano’s contract was a risky commitment, there was at least one silver lining in the trade that was supposed to be a...
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The 2019 Home Run Derby was quite a show on Monday night, with some of the game’s strongest and most powerful sluggers going head-to-head in an eight-man tournament in a battle for a prize of one million dollars. In round one, the Mets’ own Pete Alonso went up against Cleveland’s hometown hero Carlos Santana. Santana went first, hitting 13 homers, and while Alonso started out slowly, he still...
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