As we get ready to enter the month of February in 2019, there’s still a significant amount of talent left on the free agent board. Pitchers and catchers starts reporting in less than two weeks and full squads for a few teams begin on Feb. 16. Big-time deals happening this late in the offseason is becoming common practice with the San Diego Padres signing Eric Hosmer for eight years on Feb....
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The San Diego Padres are meeting with star free agent Bryce Harper on Thursday in Las Vegas according to Jeff Passan of ESPN. It was reported earlier on Thursday that Harper was going to see a mystery team on Thursday and that other teams are trying to jump into the sweepstakes late by Chris Russell of 106.7 The Fan in Washington. Harper, 26, hit .249/.393/.496 with 34 doubles, 34 home runs, 100...
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The Mets kicked off Thursday with the news of them hiring Baseball Prospectus writer Russell Carleton for their analytical department, but they weren’t done, they’ve also hired Andrew Perpetua. Perpetua has written stuff for RotoGraphs, The Hardball Times, and did a couple articles here at MMO back in 2017. He’s also the creator of xStats.org and ran the Twitter account...
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The Mets have hired long-time Baseball Prospectus analyst Russell Carleton to be part of their analytics department. Carleton also published his book, The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking. Carleton, graduate of DePaul University, previously worked for the Cleveland Indians as an analytics consultant from 2010 to 2012. He has been a writer at BP since 2007....
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Keith Law of ESPN released the start of his Top 100 Prospects list on Tuesday, with players ranked 100-51 being named which included some surprises for Mets fans. Law has four Mets prospects in the group which is more than Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, and MLB Pipeline, but the biggest surprise is having Mark Vientos as his top Mets prospect (assuming no Mets in Top 50). Overall,...
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