Jon Heyman of MLB Network reports that Major League Baseball will announce the 2020 schedule next week. Heyman notes that the Players Union has signed off on the schedule and it’s just awaiting teams to make final requests. We do know that the season will kick off on July 23 with the Yankees up against the Nationals. The defending World Series champs will host the game in primetime. The...
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Why I Started Looking At Deferred Contracts The running joke by many baseball writers, fans, and TV networks was the deferred contract the Mets agreed to give Bobby Bonilla. Instead of simply laugh, I decided to dig deeper into his contract and deferred contracts in-general. I realized that the deferment with Bonilla actually worked out for the Mets in some regards – allowed them to...
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Twenty years ago today, Mets outfielder Derek Bell stepped to the plate leading off the bottom of the eighth inning against Braves pitcher Don Wengert with New York trailing 8-1. The Mets were all but toast against the first place Braves. With two outs in the inning, the Mets were still losing 8-2 and only had one runner on base. Back-to-back singles by Todd Zeile and Jay Payton brought the...
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The Mets announced on Monday afternoon they’ve signed right-handed reliever Hunter Strickland. He has been added to their player pool. Strickland, 31, struggled in 2019 with a 5.55 ERA in 24 1/3 innings between the Seattle Mariners and the Washington Nationals. The former 18th round pick allowed eight earned runs in 6 2/3 innings during Spring Training this year for the Nats and was...
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Major League Baseball released a statement on Monday night saying the owners voted unanimously to proceed with 2020 season under the terms of the March 26th agreement. In order to produce a schedule with a specific number of games, the owners are asking the Players Association to provied them with two pieces of information by 5:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The first is whether the players will be able...
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