Throughout a year with plenty of ups and downs — especially when focusing on New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen’s offseason acquisitions form last winter — J.D. Davis was one player who consistently performed above the league average in the batter’s box. During his first season in Queens, it seemed as if simply having an opportunity to play regularly is what...
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Compared to recent years, this winter’s MLB Hot Stove has been way more interesting in the early going. After all, the Winter Meetings included three top free agents that combined to sign for nearly $1 billion in Gerrit Cole, Anthony Rendon, and Stephen Strasburg. The New York Mets have been involved in this activity, of course, but it’s not like signing Michael Wacha and Rick...
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Now that the dust has settled on MLB’s 2019 Winter Meetings, we can take a breath and start to assess what happened. Brodie Van Wagenen and the New York Mets made some moves while they were in San Diego, which is cool. Those moves didn’t include signing Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg, or Anthony Rendon, but they did bolster the starting rotation by bringing Michael Wacha and Rick...
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The New York Mets are “in it to win it” for the 2020 season, according to general manager Brodie Van Wagenen. There are some stipulations to that particular statement, though. While BVW recently mentioned at the Winter Meetings that he feels New York has more answers than questions on the current roster, he’s still searching for improvements. One of those potential improvements...
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‘The offseason is still young, who knows what can happen!” If you’re an optimistic New York Mets fan — I consider myself to be one — the above sentence is something you may have been muttering to yourself over the past few weeks as MLB free agents became available. The offseason is indeed still young, and with the Winter Meetings happening this week, there’s a...
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