Baseball America reports that the Mets have Alex Claudio to a minor league deal in their latest roundup of transactions. Claudio, 29, pitched to a 5.51 ERA and 1.59 WHIP in 32 2/3 innings for the Angels during the 2021 season. He also had a career-worst 4.1 walks per nine innings and gave up six home runs in that span. His expected stats were a bit better in 2021 with a 4.76 expected ERA. The...
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Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports that Reds’ game planning and outfield coach Jeff Pickler is a candidate for the Mets’ bench coach position. Rosenthal notes that there’s other candidates and the Mets are still going through the process. Pickler, 45, has been with the Reds organization since 2019 in his current role. The former 11th round pick of the Brewers spent the 2017...
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All four of the Mets full season affiliates announced their coaching staffs for the upcoming season, and while there’s a new manager at each stop, most of the coaches are familiar with the organization. Triple-A Syracuse Mets manager – Kevin Boles hitting coach – Joel Chimelis pitching coach – Steve Schrenk bench coach – Jay Pecci development coach – Chris...
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Unlike fans of other teams, the Mets faithful have been lucky enough to have a managerial and coaching search help them through an otherwise stagnant news cycle since the MLB lockout began last month. The first Thursday of January happened to be even busier in Mets land with notable news coming out across many different spectrums, so let’s jump right into it. Zack Scott Acquitted on DWI...
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According to Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, former big leaguer Eric Chavez is slated to become the Mets new hitting coach. The Yankees announced just a couple of weeks ago that they had hired Chavez to be their assistant hitting coach. Chavez, 44, began his post playing career as a special assistant to Yankees’ GM Brian Cashman in 2015. The same time that Mets’ GM Billy Eppler was the...
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