J.D. Davis spoke to reporters at Clover Park prior to the start of the New York Mets’ spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals and said that he expects to be ready on Opening Day. According to Deesha Thosar of the New York Daily News, he will need approximately 34 at-bats before the start of the regular season and took full swings for the second straight day on Wednesday....
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Mike Puma of the New York Post reports that Steven Matz has returned to camp while Matt Adams still hasn’t come back yet. Matz, 28, was sent home with an illness earlier this week. In two starts this spring, Matz has allowed one run (a solo home run to Harrison Bader) over three innings of work. He’s also struck out two batters and walked none. Adams, 31, has not been in camp since...
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Kiley McDaniel of ESPN released his top 100 prospect list for the 2020 season and three Mets made it. Ronny Mauricio (43rd), Francisco Alvarez (87th), and Andres Gimenez (99th) represented the organization on the list. Mauricio, 18, spent the 2019 season with the Low-A Columbia Fireflies. He hit .268/.307/.357 with four home runs and 37 RBI over 116 games. He’s been ranked as the...
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Steven Matz made his second spring training start of the year on Saturday against the Houston Astros and got through two innings of work relatively easily. In the first inning, the southpaw induced three groundouts that came from George Springer, Myles Straw, and Yuli Gurriel, in that order. Matz’s second inning wasn’t too difficult either as he got Aledmys Diaz and Kyle Tucker to...
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Daniel Zamora has been an up-and-down pitcher for the Mets over the last couple of seasons, coming up when they needed a temporary arm just to be shipped back to Triple-A later on. However, the southpaw is making a case early in spring training to possibly be trusted as more than a lefty-specialist in 2020. In three appearances thus far, Zamora has four strikeouts among the nine batters...
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