Buck Showalter brought home the 2022 NL Manager of the Year award after the Mets went from a 77-win team to a 101-win team in their first year under Buck. Not even one full year later, the Mets dismissed Showalter from the managerial position. Things went sideways for Showalter and the Mets in 2023. The team struggled out the gates, injuries piled up, expensive veterans underperformed, top...
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With the Eastern League playoffs just around the corner, the Binghamton Mets received some reinforcements on Monday: SS/CF prospect Jett Williams was promoted to the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies. Williams started the year in Low-A with the St. Lucie Mets where he played 79 games before being promoted to Brooklyn, where he played 36 games. He’s played this entire season at just 19...
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As the New York Mets’ disappointing season winds down, another page in Mets history prepares to be turned: David Stearns Watch. Stearns, the former Brewers head executive, Queens native, and the current hottest free agent in the executive market, is said to be talking with other MLB teams and is open for sale. The Missing Puzzle Piece Included in the ever-vague “other teams”...
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Mets’ right-handed pitching prospect Mike Vasil threw eight no-hit innings against the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders in a 3-0 Syracuse Mets victory on Tuesday night. He wound up losing his no-hit bid on a ninth-inning leadoff single by left fielder Brandon Lockridge. Vasil, a 2021 eighth-round selection, threw eight shutout innings with seven strikeouts, two walks, and just one hit, a...
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On the August 6 episode of the Binghamton Rumble Ponies’ pregame show, Mets’ general manager Billy Eppler spoke to WNBF’s Jacob Wilkins regarding top prospects on the Rumble Ponies’ roster, both trade deadline acquisitions and some who have been in the system for some time now. When asked about seeing the impact made by recently brought in prospects Luisangel Acuña, Drew...
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