During the 2018 season, the New York Mets’ starting rotation consistently dominated the quality-of-contact categories when facing opposing hitters. That helped engineer a rebound in productivity from the year prior — after posting a cumulative 7.9 fWAR in 2017, that number jumped all the way up to 18.0 the following season. The 2019 iteration of the Mets’ starting staff was...
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Major League Baseball’s GM meetings in Phoenix, Arizona has allowed us to get more of an idea behind what Brodie Van Wagenen and the New York Mets may have planned for this winter. Among the things on the club’s wish list in advance of 2020 is to find a right-handed hitting center fielder that’ll enable Brandon Nimmo and Michael Conforto to remain in the corner outfield...
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With MLB’s general manager meetings set to start Monday in Arizona, we’ll finally be experiencing the hot stove season instead of just talking about it (hopefully). For Brodie Van Wagenen and the New York Mets, this winter is an important one when looking at the short- and long-term future of the organization. Van Wagenen heads to Phoenix with an incomplete coaching staff, but he at...
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While the focus of this week’s press conference was to officially show off Carlos Beltran as the New York Mets’ next manager, there’s always an opportunity to learn more about what else is going on in Mets Land. Based on what we saw, read, and heard from general manager Brodie Van Wagenen, that’s exactly what happened with regard to the offseason. One of the many things...
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Most of the recent news cycle concerning the New York Mets has revolved around Carlos Beltran being named the club’s next manager. However, there were some other moves made by the front office that’ll have an impact on the upcoming offseason. One of those included New York not picking up the $9.5 million club option on outfielder Juan Lagares, making him a free agent. He’ll now...
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