With the Major League Baseball lockout in full effect, there remain many uncertainties to this year’s offseason, and amongst the leading poles of curiosity remains, are the New York Mets finished adding positional players. According to a recent Sports Illustrated article, it appears one man may still be on that list: Kris Bryant. The article states that multiple people in baseball believe the...
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Speaking exclusively with Mike Puma of the New York Post, former hitting coach Chili Davis gave a scathing rebuke of the Mets organization on Friday. While he stressed that replacements Hugh Quattlebaum and Kevin Howard were put in an incredibly tough position after they replaced himself and Tom Slater in May as lead and assistant hitting coach, he was not so kind to former acting general...
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Robinson Cano’s 162 game suspension has officially been completed as he was reinstated from the restricted list on Wednesday. Serving the second PED suspension of his career, Canó and the 40.5 million dollars still owed to him over the next two years are officially back on the payroll. While the Mariners are paying $7.5 million of that money, the Mets options for recouping on their investment...
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Ahead of the GM meetings, which begin Monday, Tim Healey of Newsday reports that the NY Mets are not expected to hire a new head of baseball operations this weekend. Instead, team president Sandy Alderson will continue to lead the baseball operations until a hire is made. The Mets search for a new head of baseball operations (and/or a new general manager) has been fraught with a series of starts...
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After the New York Mets announced on Monday afternoon that they were not picking up the team option on former manager Luis Rojas, they appear to be moving things along with this offseason relatively quickly. According to Mike Puma of the New York Post an industry source has told him that the Mets plan on scheduling an interview with former Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox executive Theo Epstein...
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