Sandy Alderson has made it pretty clear that New York Mets are looking for the bullpen to be far more dominant this upcoming season than it was in 2017. The first move that the Mets GM did to help ensure that was by trading prospects Merandy Gonzalez and Ricardo Cespedes to the Miami Marlins for closer AJ Ramos. Jeurys Familia pitched in only 25 games this past season due to a suspension and...
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One way the Mets hope improve on what was a horrible pitching staff in 2017 is to limit starters not named Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom to only two times through the lineup according to Marc Carig of Newsday. This means the Mets are likely to carry an eight-man bullpen as they did for a good portion of the 2017 season. In order for that to have a chance to be successful though, the Mets...
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Major League Baseball’s annual Silver Slugger Awards were handed out on Thursday night with Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve and San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey both winning their fourth straight award. The winners are voted on by coaches and managers that cannot vote for players on their own teams. Here is the entire list of 2017 Silver Slugger Award winners: American...
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Jon Heyman of Fan Rag Sports released his contract predictions for whom he deemed to be the Top 80 free agents. Along with his contract predictions he has a “trusty expert” make his own and Heyman admits that the expert has been closer with his analysis over the last ten years. In light of Heyman admitting the experts picks are better let’s take a look at some of them that may...
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The Washington Nationals started their offseason by announcing that manager Dusty Baker and his staff would not be returning for the 2018 season despite back-to-back National League East division titles. They have now rounded out their staff as they hired Derek Lilliquist to be their pitching coach and Tim Bogar as first base coach according to Mark Suckerman of MASN Sports. Lilliquist had been...
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