Mets ace Jacob deGrom made his second spring start of 2019 on Friday when he pitched three innings in the Mets win over the Tigers, 7-1. DeGrom needed only 39 pitches to get through three scoreless innings. He allowed only one hit, zero walks, and struck out four. He struck out the last three batters he faced, all swinging. The 2018 National League Cy Young Award winner got his fastball velocity...
Read More
New Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen said he wanted to eliminate “ifs” within the franchise. He’s certainly made moves to do so in terms of position player depth, but the 2019 Mets team still has a pretty big IF rounding out their rotation. Left-hander Jason Vargas is coming off a season in which he posted a 5.77 ERA and 1.41 WHIP in just 92 innings. He did pitch better in the second...
Read More
On Monday we wrapped up our countdown of the Mets Top 25 prospects with shortstop Andres Gimenez finishing it off at No. 1. Gimenez was not a clear cut top prospect with many of our writers torn between him and the powerful Pete Alonso, our No. 2 prospect ultimately. Here’s our Top 25 with links to the write ups: Andres Gimenez, SS – Report Pete Alonso, 1B – Report Ronny...
Read More
Coming into the 2018 New York Mets camp, one of the big questions was who was going to start at first base on Opening Day? A young Dominic Smith was coming off his first big league experience though the Mets had signed veteran Adrian Gonzalez. Smith showed up to camp in better shape, but that goodwill didn’t last long. He was late to arrive for the first game day and was scratched from the...
Read More
On January 6, the Mets acquired infielder/outfielder J.D. Davis from the Astros in exchange for prospects Luis Santana, Ross Adolph, and Scott Manea. The right-handed hitters offensive calling card has always been his power, he had 25 doubles and 17 home runs in 333 at-bats during the 2018 season in Triple-A. He had at least 23 home runs in the previous three seasons and his career minor league...
Read More
