Baseball America has named the Top 10 most talented young organizations in baseball. Unlike most Baseball America lists, this one looks at both the depth of a team’s farm system as well as the talent on the major league roster. With this being Baseball America, the caveat for the list is that they are analyzing players that are 25 and under. This means players like Yoenis Cespedes did not...
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In international competition, I am an American, and as such, I will always root for the USA to prevail. In the Olympics, I root for the USA regardless of what New York Rangers are playing for the other country. I love Henrik Lundqvist to death, but I would root for an American team full of Islanders, Devils, and Flyers if it was ever a USA-Sweden gold medal match. The same goes for the World...
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In back-to-back years, Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden won the Rookie of the Year Awards for the Mets. For Strawberry, he was being called the Black Ted Williams. As for Gooden’s part, he was doing things not even Tom Seaver did in a Mets uniform. These two were supposed to be the foundation for what was supposed to become a Mets Dynasty. Instead, the team would only win one World...
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By now, many of you have probably already heard of P.J. Conlon, the Mets’ left-handed pitching prospect, that emigrated from Ireland. However, hat only scratches the surface of who Conlon is.Conlon is actually from Northern Ireland – Belfast to be exact – a city at the center of The Troubles, an ethno-nationalist conflict over whether Northern Ireland belonged to the United...
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One of the biggest issues for the Mets last year was stolen bases. Now, a considerable amount of the blame in this respect has gone to Travis d’Arnaud, who only threw out 22% of base stealers last season. That’s simply not good, and there is a lot d’Arnaud needs to work on to bring that number back up to the respectable 33% it was in 2015. In fact, the Mets allowed the most...
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