When the highlight of the day was Billy Hamilton signing a one-year deal with the Kansas City Royals, you can certainly say it’s been a quiet day at the Major League Winter Meetings in Las Vegas. Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash kicked off the start of the MLB side of the meeting with his pressure in what was an interesting back-and-forth on the success of openers. Cash said the Rays will...
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Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times is reporting that there is industry-wide speculation that the Los Angeles Dodgers could trade outfielder Yasiel Puig this offseason. Hernandez notes that the right-handed hitting Puig became upset in 2018 when he was placed in a platoon situation. Oddly, Puig’s struggles have actually come against left-handed pitching with a .628 OPS against them in 2018 and...
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The 2018 Rule 5 Draft wraps up the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings on December 13 and there’s a number of interesting players available this year including numerous former first rounders. Before we look at which players the Mets should target in the draft let’s go over the rules of the entire process. The current rules require teams to “protect” players from the draft by...
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The New York Mets announced today that the club named Jared Banner, Executive Director, Player Development and promoted Ian Levin to Senior Director, Baseball Operations. “I’m excited to continue to invest in the front office with personnel that have a championship pedigree,” Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen said. “We are looking to build the organization to...
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According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, former Atlanta Braves pitching coach Chuck Hernandez has emerged as a candidate for the New York Mets bullpen coach vacancy. Hernandez, 58, has spent the last two seasons as the Braves pitching coach. During that time, the Braves staff had a 4.23 ERA (tied for 8th in NL) and 1.35 WHIP (tied for 9th in NL). Before the Braves, Hernandez worked as a...
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