Over the last 30 days, the New York Mets middle infield and 1-2 spots in the lineup of Amed Rosario and Jeff McNeil has been one of the best in baseball. May sound crazy, but seriously they have. In that time span, Rosario’s 1.1 fWAR ranks fourth among major league shortstops behind only Trevor Story, Xander Bogaerts and Manny Machado. He’s had 121 plate appearances during that time,...
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New York Mets catcher Kevin Plawecki is in the lineup on Friday batting seventh and catching against the Philadelphia Phillies. He left Wednesday’s game early after getting hit by a pitch though the CT scan came back negative. The 27-year-old Plawecki is hitting .237/.341/.397 with 12 doubles, two triples, five homers and 25 RBI this season. He has posted a 1.5 WAR in 63 games for the...
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MLB Pipeline released their 2018 Prospect Team of the Year today with the New York Mets being the only organization with two players selected to the first team. Mets prospect Peter Alonso was chosen to be MLB’s first baseman and Mets infielder (lost his prospect status recently) Jeff McNeil was taken as the second baseman. Alonso, 23, hit .285/.395/.579 with 36 homers (tied for most in...
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Brandon Nimmo has been the New York Mets best hitter from the start of the season when he posted a 1.051 in March/April and his current .897 OPS is by far the top number on the team. So why the heck is he batting seventh and eighth? Here’s where Nimmo has placed in the lineup over the last eight games: 8th: Three times 7th: Three times 6th: Once Bench: Once (Game-winning pinch hit homer)...
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The New York Mets now have three stud pitchers healthy and dominating in what has been one of baseball’s best rotations since the All-Star break. Jacob deGrom (front-runner for NL Cy Young), Noah Syndergaard and Zack Wheeler have pitched liked three aces atop the Mets staff giving them three of the top six National League starters ranked by fWAR. Mets pitching coach Dave Eiland told Mike...
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