Boston Red Sox postseason hero Nathan Eovaldi is staying in New England. The free agent agreed to a deal with Boston for four-years, $67.5 million according to Mark Feinsand of MLB.com. The deal, first reported by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, is pending a physical. Eovaldi has had two Tommy John Surgeries in his career–the last one in 2016. The Red Sox are the fifth team Eovaldi has...
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The New York Mets announced on Friday night that infielder Wilmer Flores will not be tendered a contract for the 2019 season. Flores will become a free agent, he was projected to make $4.7 through arbitration and was going to be a free agent after the 2019 season. The Mets decided to tender contracts to Travis d’Arnaud, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Zack Wheeler, Kevin Plawecki, Steven...
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It is the easiest thing in the world to be critical. It’s even easier if the object of said criticism often deserves it. The New York Mets have a loyal and passionate fan base who can cheer then curse then congratulate then crush their favorite team sometimes in the same inning. Thus is the nature of being a Mets fan–rooting for a team that can you bring to the throws of triumph or...
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The 30 MLB owners on Thursday voted unanimously to extend Rob Manfred’s tenure as commissioner another five years. He will now be the top officer in baseball through the 2024 season. Manfred, 60, replaced Bud Selig in August 2014 to become baseball’s tenth commissioner. Before ascending to the role of commissioner, Manfred spent one-year as MLB’s COO and was the executive...
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Jacob deGrom wanted his 1,000th career strikeout to happen this year. He did not want to wait until opening day 2019 to get it. So he took the mound in the eighth inning of his final start of the 2018 season against the NL East champion Atlanta Braves with 998 career strikeouts. It didn’t matter that his pitch count was at about 100, 100 wasn’t the key number. 1,000 was. So after...
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