With the Mets trading Jeurys Familia to the Oakland Athletics for Bobby Wahl, William Toffey, and $1 million of international bonus pool money, the organization has officially begun selling off its pieces. What was interesting about the Familia trade was some reports actually had the Mets organization liking it to their trading Addison Reed to the Boston Red Sox for three right-handed relief...
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Las Vegas – Peter Alonso, 1B Age: 23 Week Stats: .261/.357/.739, 3B, 3 HR, 8 RBI Season Stats: .275/.402/.547, 16 2B, 3B, 24 HR, 83 RBI With Dominic Smith being sent down to Las Vegas, Alonso was going to effectively go head-to-head against his main competition for first base at the Major League level. Alonso responded by having his best stretch in Las Vegas while him not only hitting for...
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3 UP 1. Team Still Cares Perhaps it is because this is the Subway Series, but we really have not seen quit in these Mets players. Noah Syndergaard was boasting before his start against the Yankees, and he largely backed it up by getting the win. We saw Pat Roessler and Asdrubal Cabrera get tossed from a game because of their arguing balls and strikes. Mickey Callaway sent out a rested Seth Lugo...
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William Toffey, 3B Ht: 6’2″ Wt: 205 lb. Level: California League (A) B/T: L/R Age: 12/31/94 (23) Age Dif: 0.7 Drafted: Fourth Round of the 2017 Draft from Vanderbilt University Acquired: Acquired from Oakland Athletics as part of Jeurys Familia trade (7/21/18) Stats: 48 G, 197 PA, 164 AB, 40 H, 8 2B, 5 HR, 32 RBI, .244/.357/.384 Baseball America Athletics Ranking: 19 FanGraphs...
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With the New York Mets sending Dominic Smith down in a series of transactions designed to make room on the Major League roster for both Yoenis Cespedes and Jason Vargas to return from the disabled list, they will have both Smith and Peter Alonso on the same roster. This could not have happened at a worse time for either player. When Smith was called up to the majors, he had not exactly earned...
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