Author: Michael Mayer

The Mets need a quality starting pitcher and Trevor Bauer is clearly the best on the free agent market. Enter new Mets’ owner Steve Cohen. Not only are his pockets deep, but his goals  are high as well. That has impressed many, including Bauer, and he expressed that during a YouTube video. Deesha Thosar of the New York Daily News talked to Bauer’s agent Rachel Luba about the...

According to Andy Martino of SNY, the Mets have decided that pitching coach Jeremy Hefner will return to that role for the 2021 season. Hefner, former Mets’ pitcher, was hired as the Mets pitching coach around this time last year. It’s extremely difficult to judge Hefner on how the Mets pitching staff performed because Spring Training was cut early, a shortened season, and health...

While the Braves have made the most news to this point with their signings of starters Charlie Morton and Drew Smyly, the Mets are still expected to make the biggest splash according to sources of Buster Olney at ESPN. Olney notes that the Mets are still targeting more than one of the this offseason’s big four – Francisco Lindor, Trevor Bauer, J.T. Realmuto, George Springer –...

According to multiple reports – including a note I dropped last week – the Mets are now looking at the possibility of hiring only a general manager this offseason. Mike Puma of the New York Post reports that Sandy Alderson could simply run baseball operations for the 2021 season. Andy Martino of SNY mentioned that possibility on Monday morning and reported that former Mets pitcher...