Marcus Stroman and Rick Porcello made their Grapefruit League season debuts on Saturday against the St.Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins, respectively. Stroman, 28, started off his spring season with a Dexter Fowler pop-up to shortstop, Luis Guillorme. After allowing a single to Matt Carpenter, he proceeded to strike out Paul Goldschmidt and Yadier Molina. However, he gave up a homer to Tyler...
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Tim Healey of Newsday reports that Seth Lugo threw a bullpen session on Saturday for the first time since fracturing his pinky toe on Monday. “Felt a little soreness when I got done, but that’s to be expected,” Lugo said. “Hopefully tomorrow that’s gone.” Mets manager, Luis Rojas, said he wasn’t concerned about the injury when it initially happened and...
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The New York Mets will start playing Grapefruit League games on Saturday with split-squad matchups with the St. Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins. According to Tim Healey of Newsday, the Mets are planning to have both Rick Porcello and Marcus Stroman start on Saturday and then have Steven Matz start on Sunday against the St. Louis Cardinals again. Porcello, 31, will be making his first start...
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Michael Conforto spoke with Mets reporters at spring training on Wednesday and talked about a topic that was a little surprising: the 2021 CBA negotiations (SNY). MLB and the players union will have to negotiate a new CBA after the 2021 season and Conforto believes that, after a drama-filled offseason, the players will come together and unify for that. “As far as our guys, I think...
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J.D. Davis is expected to get most of his playing time in left field during the 2020 season, but it appears spring training will be an exception to that. As detailed by Mike Puma of the New York Post, Gary DiSarcina and the Mets plan to have Davis get 50% of his playing time at the hot corner in spring training. After working on staying more upright instead of crouching while also improving his...
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