In the first round of the Mets Madness Tournament on Out of the Park Baseball 24, the 2022 Mets, lead by Pete Alonso, Jeff McNeil, and Francisco Lindor, knocked off the 1999 Mets in a 4-2 series victory. Game 1 The two teams traded blowouts in Games 1 and 2. The 2022 team took Game 1 9-1 in a matchup between Jacob deGrom and Kenny Rogers, in large part due to an eight-run third inning,...
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“The guys that I was watching as a kid? Dillon Gee and Jon Niese were my guys.” With their 13th-round selection in the 2023 MLB Draft, the Mets selected reliever Ben Simon, a right-handed pitcher from Elon University. Simon, just 21, spent three years at Elon in the Coastal Athletic Association, one of the strongest baseball conferences in the country. After Simon closed out his...
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Updated Post: Dec. 11 at 6:11 pm ET More details have emerged regarding the structure of Shohei Ohtani’s unprecedented ten-year, $700 million contract. According to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic, Ohtani will defer $68 million a year, for a total of $680 million in deferred money. Ohtani will then earn $2 million a year. However, for CBT purposes, Ohtani’s average annual value is...
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During his annual media scrum on Wednesday, super-agent Scott Boras, who represents Mets first baseman Pete Alonso, said that his team and Alonso are “all ears” on a contract extension to keep the slugger in New York. Boras told a group of reporters that he has “spoken to David (Stearns)” and made his openness to a new deal clear. Alonso’s status was commented on by...
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The Mets are entering the 2023 offseason with an absurd amount of flexibility. After the non-tender deadline, in which the Mets let go of five players, the Mets’ 40-man roster now sits at an minuscule 28 players, of which includes starting pitcher David Peterson, who is expected to miss the start of the 2024 season. With that, the Mets have just 27 healthy players on their 40-man roster,...
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