According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, the New York Mets have met with the representative of veteran and former Met Asdrubal Cabrera. Puma notes that the Mets are looking for someone capable of playing second and shortstop. Cabrera, 32, started last season with the Mets before being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for Franklyn Kilome in July. The switch-hitting Cabrera hit...
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Jon Heyman of Fancred Sports released his annual free agent predictions and this year he decided to do a whopping 131 of them. Heyman also has a one baseball expert that makes his predictions on the 131 free agents as well to give some perspective. Let’s take a look at the predictions at a few of the positions that we believe the Mets need to address as well as free agents that played for...
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Joel Sherman of the New York Post is reporting that the Los Angeles Dodgers will extend the qualifying offer to catcher Yasmani Grandal. Teams have until 5 p.m. ET time on Friday night to decide whether or not that will give pending free agents a qualifying offer of $17.9 million. Players that receive a qualifying offer will have until Nov. 12 to decide to accept or reject. Grandal, 29, hit...
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One position the New York Mets need to upgrade this offseason is catcher after the group of Kevin Plawecki, Travis d’Arnaud, Tomas Nido, Devin Mesoraco and Jose Lobaton disappointed during the 2018 season. The Mets catchers had a combined 0.4 fWAR this season, ranking 25th out of 30 major league teams. Their wRC+ tied them for 20th offensively, and their highest ranking catcher on defense...
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According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, former New York Mets general manager Omar Minaya will be the top adviser to new GM Brodie Van Vagenen. Puma also notes that assistant GM John Ricco and special assistant J.P. Ricciardi have been told they are wanted back if they decided to stay. The Mets introduced Van Wagenen as their new GM on Tuesday and he said that he believes he has full...
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