New York Mets manager Mickey Callaway announced the first Grapefruit League lineup of 2018 with center fielder Brandon Nimmo leading off on Friday. The game starts at 1:10 p.m. ET and be televised on SNY. The Mets will be facing the Atlanta Braves at First Data Field in Port St. Lucie. Here is the first lineup by Callaway: Brandon Nimmo, CF Adrian Gonzalez, DH Todd Frazier, 3B Dominic Smith, 1B...
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The New York Mets will fall in line with a few other major league teams in 2018 when they start wearing wristbands that have scouting information packed into them according to an article by Kevin Kernan of the New York Post. New manager Mickey Callaway will bring the change from Cleveland where they had all of their catchers wear the pitching cheat sheet. Another team that tried it last year was...
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The New York Mets have pushed that veteran Adrian Gonzalez was signed to fight the young Dominic Smith for the first base job and even possibly mentor him along the way. What we’ve seen on the field, or perhaps more important what we haven’t seen, is Smith and Gonzalez together. They haven’t been together at all, in three days of camp they haven’t been seen working...
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New York Mets right-hander Matt Harvey has been a hot topic during the first week of camp with manager Mickey Callaway saying, “He might never be the Dark Knight again. But the Mets don’t need him to be that….We need the best version of who Matt is today, and that version’s going to be good enough.” Harvey’s Mets career could be on it’s last leg as the...
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The New York Mets had 12 players that made their major league debut during the 2017 season. I don’t believe they will have that many in 2018 on what looks like a team that will at least contend for a Wild Card. Of course, the two most important players in the short-term and long-term of the Mets franchise to debut last season were Amed Rosario and Dominic Smith. Rosario will be the Mets...
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