The New York Mets were able to get to the Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez, pounding him for six runs in 3.2 innings in their 6-5 victory today. Jacob deGrom made the start for the Mets after having his scheduled start on Monday scratched because of back stiffness. He was just fine today, needing only 30 pitches to throw three scoreless innings with three strikeouts. The only baserunner he gave...
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Thirty years ago, prior to one of the most magical season in New York Mets team history, a young shortstop by the name of Kevin Elster was the Mets #1 prospect according to Baseball America. Elster became one of three players on this Top 10 list to play for the Mets in the 1986 championship season. Here is BA’s Top 10 prior to 1986 season: 1.) Kevin Elster – Made his Major League...
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Sloppy game by the Mets as they fall 9-5 to the Washington Nationals and make four errors in the field. Steven Matz made his second spring start and looked good through the first two innings not allowing any runs before running into trouble in the third. He threw eight straight balls to start the inning, walking Danny Espinosa and Matt Den Dekker. Alejandro De Aza then misjudged what should have...
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Third base is definitely a spot for the Mets that is limited prospect wise with the suspension of Eudor Garcia and the lost 2015 season from Jhoan Urena. The Mets do have a bunch of other guys that aren’t strictly third baseman but have played there recently like T.J. Rivera, Jeff McNeil, and Yeffry De Aza. Also the possibility with the Mets glutton on good shortstop prospects that one of them...
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Finally, we got to watch the Mets play while hearing the voices of Gary, Keith, and Ronnie like baseball is meant to be. The sellout crowd of 7,003 at Tradition Field got to see one of my least favorite things in baseball, a tie. The Mets tied the game in dramatic fashion when Dilson Herrera hit an inside the park homerun to leadoff the bottom of the 9th inning. Highlights from the pitching...
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