On Thursday, the New York Mets made two significant hires when they added long-time Baseball Prospectus writer Russell Carleton and NEIFI analyst Andrew Perpetua to their analytics team. Tim Healey of Newsday reports that the Mets are still planning on hiring a couple more analysts over the coming weeks. Of course, the front office overhaul began early in the offseason when the Mets went...
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Baseball America continued with their top prospects at each position feature on Thursday with one of the strongest groups, third base. Of course, the group is led by Blue Jays’ uber prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr., then Nick Senzel of the Cincinnati Reds. New York Mets prospect Mark Vientos comes into the rankings at No. 15. Vientos, turned 19 in December, has been a hot topic recently...
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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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