David Peterson, LHP Position: Starter Bat/Throw: L/L Age: 25 (September 3, 1995) Acquired: Mets 1st round selection in 2017 MLB Draft (20th player taken overall) The New York Mets asked 15 non-roster players to join the team in spring training prior to the start of the 2020 season. Among those that will certainly bear watching is LHP David Peterson. The six-foot-six inch, 240 pound southpaw was...
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The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico hasn’t had many good things happen to it lately. From Hurricane Maria in September 2017 to a series of earthquakes in December 2019 and January 2020, the island has been ravaged with electrical outages, destruction, strife and even political corruption. Maria caused the largest electrical outage in U.S. history, effectively destroying the electrical grid of...
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In their annual countdown listing the top 10 players at each position around baseball, MLB Network named New York Mets rookie sensation Pete Alonso as the third best first baseman in the game on Saturday. Alonso finished behind Atlanta Braves veteran Freddie Freeman (who was ranked second last year) and Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Max Muncy (who improved two places from his fourth place rating...
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Although there are three viable in-house candidates to replace Carlos Beltran as the manager of the New York Mets, it is baseball analyst Eduardo Perez who is the current favorite to land the job according to BetOnline.ag. Although the odds are in flux, as of 3:00 PM on Friday, Perez was listed as +300 to become the Mets 22nd manager. Perez has been broadcasting on ESPN and later Sirius XM since...
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Move over Houston, you may have some company. On Tuesday, Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic obtained information from three anonymous sources alleging that the Boston Red Sox used their video electronics room, which is close to their dugout at Fenway Park, to aid in stealing signs during the 2018 season. The Red Sox won 108 games in 2018 along with their tenth World Series title....
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