Adam Rubin is reporting that Mets closer Bobby Parnell, who underwent Sept. 10 surgery in California for a herniated disk in his neck, has been fully cleared for baseball activities. “After attending David Wright’s wedding, Parnell stayed on the West Coast to be examined by Dr. Robert Watkins, who had performed the procedure.” Watkins cleared Parnell for full baseball...
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A team official told Adam Rubin that Ruben Tejada is planning to return this month to a fitness and nutrition program near Ann Arbor, Mich. on Jan. 13. The 24-year old infielder spent four weeks in November at the program. With the increasing likelihood that Tejada enters camp this Spring as the everyday shortstop, I asked some of our writers how they would feel about that scenario playing out....
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A source told Adam Rubin of ESPN New York the breakdown of the two-year deal Bartolo Colon signed with the Mets. His salary is $9 million in 2014 and $11 million in 2015. Using arbitration estimates from MLB Trade Rumors, Rubin calculated the Mets current payroll to be at $85.9 million. That number is just a shade below the $87 million figure that Sandy Alderson tossed around to reporters before...
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Sandy Anderson still has at some shopping to do, according to a report on ESPN New York, who spoke with the Mets general manager. “We’re still looking,” Alderson said about the bench. “It depends on what happens in the middle infield as to whether we need someone else on the bench. And as for how things look in the outfield, we’ve got people who can provide us some...
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What two Mets beat writers are saying about having both Duda and Davis in camp this Spring: Ken Davidoff, New York Post To bring Ike Davis and Lucas Duda into camp together, a concept the Mets have discussed internally, is to tilt the media focus away from exciting newcomers (Bartolo Colon and Curtis Granderson) and rising hopes (Zack Wheeler and Noah Syndergaard) and toward the daily first-base...
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