With Tyler Skaggs death having ruled to be caused by an opioid overdose, the DEA has launched an investigation. According to the Los Angeles Times, as part of that investigation, the DEA is attempting to decipher “whether the use of opiates was prevalent in the clubhouse, if they ever saw players using illegal narcotics on team flights and if they knew how Skaggs procured drugs.” On...
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The New York Mets have begun assembling their list of managerial candidates, and they are beginning to set up interviews with different candidates. Judging from what we heard when he broadcasted Mets games this year, Joe Girardi really wants this job. Given his being a very good manager, the Mets should be doing all they could do to hire him. But . . . Even with Girardi being the best candidate...
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In 2011 when Carlos Beltran was traded to the San Francisco Giants for Zack Wheeler, you had to assume that was the last the Mets would ever see of the best center fielder in team history. After all, there was the fight over his knee surgery as well as the negative public statements Fred Wilpon made about his star player. However, time heals all wounds, and according to Jon Heyman of the MLB...
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The New York Mets were obviously high on Francisco Alvarez when they gave him the largest signing bonus to an international free agent in team history of $2.7 million in 2018. If the bonus wasn’t enough of a sign the team was high on him, the Mets would be very aggressive with him having him starting his career stateside and getting called up to the Appalachian League after just seven...
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Derek Shelton Current Position: Twins Bench Coach (2018 – Present) Age: July 30, 1970 (49) Managerial Experience: GCL Yankees (2000 – 2001), Staten Island Yankees (2002) The 2019 Minnesota Twins were not the first time Rocco Baldelli and Shelton shared the same clubhouse and dugout. For that matter, it was not the only time they went to the postseason. The first time that happened...
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