“The difference between champions and everyone else is that champions are never afraid of losing, while everyone else is afraid of winning.” An American author named Jeffrey Fry uttered this quotation some years ago. It had little to do with the New York Mets in their first seven years of existence. The Mets, an expansion team born as a hybrid of the departed Brooklyn Dodgers and New...
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Dominic Smith, OF/1B Player Data: Age 24, B/T : L/L Primary Stats: 89 G, 197 PA, 11 HR, 25 RBI, 19 BB, 44 SO, .282 BA, .355 OBP, .525 SLG Advanced Stats: .320 BABIP, 0.8 fWAR, 134 OPS+, 133 wRC+, 1 DRS/0.9 UZR (1B), -3 DRS/-3.6 UZR (OF) Free Agent: 2025 2019 Salary: $559,320 Grade: B- 2019 Review Dominic Smith has been through quite a bit already in his brief baseball career. The 24-year-old...
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As if the betting public isn’t already inundated with gambling sites, prop bets, and non-stop commercials advertising the same, Tim Healey has reported on a site that will let you place a ducat or two on who you think will be the next Mets manager. BetOnline.ag has listed the names of 23 individuals (22 men and 1 woman) and their respective odds to be the next skipper of the...
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By Marshall Field On Tuesday, September 24, it was announced that former New York Mets pitcher, Jerry Koosman, will have his number 36 retired in 2020. No date for the ceremony has yet been announced. To most Mets fans, especially in this generation, Koosman is part of a familiar idiom, Seaver and Koosman, denoting the excellence in pitching the Mets had during the late sixties and seventies....
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As if he needed more accolades to finish a wonderful mural of awards and distinctions for 2019, New York Mets rookie phenom Pete Alonso has been named Rookie-of-the-Month for September. It was the third time this year that Alonso has earned top rookie for a calendar month, having won the distinction in April and in June as well. Since 2001, only eight players have won the Rookie-of-the-Month...
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