Yoenis Cespedes and Jed Lowrie went near full tilt in spring training Monday to the delight of Mets manager Luis Rojas. The oft injured stars participated in most of the drills at Port St. Lucie with very little restriction. Cespedes, who is battling heel and ankle issues, will remain a limited participant in spring training according to Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, but was particularly effective...
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In a meeting with the media that is already drawing fierce criticism, members of the Houston Astros attempted to explain and apologize for their role in the sign stealing scandal that is still rocking baseball. The Astros were represented by two of the star players, Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman, their new manager, Dusty Baker and team owner Jim Crane. The two players each spoke for under two...
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It would have been totally normal if not expected that the 2020 New York Mets showed up to spring training a confused and confounded bunch. After losing a manager that was hired in November and let go three months later due to a burgeoning cheating scandal, and after a failed sale of the team in the off-season, uncertainty and misdirection could have been the order of the day. But new Mets...
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From 2016-2018, few pitchers in Major League Baseball possessed a slider as nasty as Noah Syndergaard’s. His blazing fastball set-up the off-speed delivery and often it was his go-to pitch in a tough spot. The slider averaged 92 mph and had batters flailing at it with little success. In 2019, however, things changed for the New York Mets star. Syndergaard’s velocity on his slider was...
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In what seems like a further attempt to regain some of its lost popularity, Major League Baseball is planning to alter its playoff format perhaps as soon as the 2022 season. According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, there would be seven teams per league that qualify for post-season play in each league rather than the current five adding two extra wild-cards. The two teams with the best...
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