Last Thursday, ESPN senior baseball analyst Keith Law was kind enough to grant our own Tommy Rothman a phone interview which you can read in its entirety here. Law, who ranked the Mets as having the fourth best farm system in the game and also included six Mets in his Top 100 prospects, discussed a great variety of topics with us and I wanted to summarize what I thought were the eight most...
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With pitchers and catchers reporting in 18 days, Mike Puma of the New York Post says manager Terry Collins is on the hot seat. “Though the Mets have holes, most notably at shortstop, Collins is expected to keep this crew in contention for the entire season. So if the Mets are sitting seven or eight games below .500 on Memorial Day, Collins could be a goner.” As I wrote on Saturday,...
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With all arbitration eligible players now spoken for after Lucas Duda settled with the team for $4.2 million this morning, here’s where we stand with payroll. Guaranteed Contracts ($82.93M) David Wright $20.0M Curtis Granderson $16.0M Bartolo Colon $11.0M Michael Cuddyer $8.5M Daniel Murphy $8.0M Dillon Gee $5.4M Jon Niese $7.0M Bobby Parnell $3.7M Ruben Tejada $1.88M John Mayberry Jr....
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The New York Mets and Lucas Duda have settled on a one year contract which will pay him $4.2 million in 2015, thus avoiding arbitration according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. Duda, who earned $1.9 million last season, had requested $4.7 million while the Mets countered with $3.75 million. Coming off a breakout season in 2014, Duda heads into spring training as the Mets everyday first baseman...
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Baseball Prospectus projects the Mets to finish 82-80 this year and fall short of the postseason. This is actually a little bit more promising than FanGraphs who projected the Mets for 79 wins this season. Dillon Gee took exception to the projection, taking to Twitter to say, “Sometimes people get it wrong!!!” There’s no real science to these predictions and it’s all very...
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