New York Mets assistant general manager John Ricco was on SNY talking the state of the team Thursday night and one thing that was discussed in-depth was the teams awful defense in 2018. Ricco on the topic, “We have had several decent players, but as a group I don’t think we valued it as much as we need to.” The Mets as a team in 2017 had a major league worst -73 defensive runs...
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The New York Mets announced they have signed left-handed pitcher Matt Purke to a minor league deal with an invite to major league Spring Training. Purke, 27, had a 3.84 ERA, 1.36 WHIP and 11.0 K.9 during the 2017 season pitching for the Triple-A Charlotte Knights of the Chicago White Sox organization. In 65.2 innings he allowed 61 hits, walked 28, struck 80 and only allowed four home runs. The...
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Major League teams have until 8 p.m. ET on Nov. 20 to decide which prospects they will add to their 40-man roster to protect from the upcoming Rule 5 Draft. The playoffs left off the 40-man roster will be exposed to the Rule 5 Draft that will take place on Dec. 14 at the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Florida. The New York Mets haven’t been active in the Rule 5 recently with the last time...
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The shareholders of the Syracuse Chiefs have approved the sale of the franchise to the New York Mets for $18 million per Syracuse.com. New York will acquire the team from the Community Baseball Club of Central New York Inc. and have committed to keeping the Chiefs in Syracuse at least through the 2025 season, the duration of the current lease to play in NBT Stadium. The Mets have one year left...
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The deadline to make a decision on the qualifying offer was 5:00 p.m. ET time on Thursday and all nine of the players that received one also declined it. Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Lorenzo Cain, Jake Arrieta, Wade Davis, Lance Lynn, Alex Cobb, Greg Holland and Carlos Santana decided to decline the one-year, 17.4 million deal in favor of free agency. If the New York Mets were to sign one of the...
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