Author: John Sheridan

Michel Otanez, Bryce Montes de Oca Set To Light Up Radar Gun

With the rash of pitching injuries for the New York Mets, the Syracuse Mets pitching staff has taken quite a hit. Recently, Syracuse has seen Colin Holderman, Adonis Medina, Stephen Nogosek, and David Peterson promoted to the majors. Seeing how each have performed, they are making their case to stay long past the respective IL stints which led to their promotions. These promotions have created...

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Mets Minors Best Of May: Mark Vientos Scorching Hot

There have been several outstanding performances in the Mets minor leagues during the month of May with some players starting to raise their profiles. While we cannot mention everyone who has had a good month, here are the staff selections for the top performers in each category. Position Player – 1B/3B Mark Vientos Level: Triple-A Syracuse Stats: .328/.408/.642, 2 2B, 5 HR, 14 RBI Ever...

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3 Up, 3 Down: Mets Double Sweep

3 UP Offseason in Bloom The New York Mets sought to reshape their outfield this past offseason by signing Starling Marte and Mark Canha to play the corner positions. This series is the latest in how well it has worked out for the Mets. In this series, Marte was 5-for-13 with three runs, two homers, and six RBI. The bigger story for Marte is how he has come back from tragedy. After his beloved...

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3 Up, 3 Down: Mets Left Their Winning Streak In San Francisco

3 UP Lindor Returns As previously noted, the hand-wringing over Francisco Lindor’s struggles was very premature. He always struggles in either April or May of every season, but he eventually gets hot and looks like the All-Star caliber player he is. We saw that Lindor in San Francisco. In the series, Lindor was 5-for-13 with four runs, two doubles, a triple, two homers, and nine RBIs. He...

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3 Up, 3 Down: Mets On Rocky Mountain High

3 UP Mets Still Have Starting Pitching With Jacob deGrom, Tylor Megill, and Max Scherzer down, in some corners of Mets fandom, there was a sky is falling mentality. To be fair, we’ve seen this plenty of times before over the past two decades. However, this Mets team actually built a deep rotation. We saw this in the series against the Colorado Rockies. It was all the more impressive...

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