If there was one bright spot on Wednesday night, albeit an extremely dim one, it was MJ Melendez. Melendez, a former top prospect and second-round pick by the Royals back in 2017, led all of minor league baseball with 41 home runs in 2021. He made his big league debut in 2022 and showed real promise: 18 homers, 66 walks, and an OPS+ sitting at the league average. He repeated that performance for...
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Unfortunately, all win streaks have to come to an end. After emerging victorious in four straight contests, the Mets dropped Wednesday afternoon’s game to the Arizona Diamondbacks, 7–2. Left-hander David Peterson took the loss, allowing five earned runs over five innings pitched, striking out six and surrendering six hits. Four of those runs came in the second inning, which included three balls...
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The Mets dropped their April Fools Day contest to the St. Louis Cardinals, 2-1. If you’re keeping count, that’s the third extra-innings game out of six to start the season, something that hasn’t happened since the 1980s. So, that’s interesting. Wednesday afternoon was gloomy to begin with, as overcast skies turned to showers as gametime approached. After an hour-long rain...
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The Mets took home another Spring Training win on Wednesday evening, this time taking down Team Israel in a tuneup for the upcoming World Baseball Classic. The starter for the orange and blue was 2025 staff leader David Peterson. After a shaky finish to last season, Peterson came out firing in his first spring outing. The left-hander tossed three innings of shutout baseball, allowing just one...
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Most young pitchers fighting for a rotation spot wouldn’t gamble on a brand new weapon in their first spring training start. They’d workshop it quietly on the back fields, polish the edges, and sneak it into games only when it felt airtight. However, most young pitchers aren’t Jonah Tong. Tong took the mound Wednesday afternoon for his first spring training start against the St. Louis Cardinals....
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