Author: Michelle Ioannou

MMO Roundtable: Player Who Made Me Fall In Love With Baseball

When you think of the player that made you fall in love with the game of baseball, who do you think of? The answer to this question will likely depend on your age, where you grew up, your family, and so on — which makes it an interesting question to pose. This is why I asked the MMO team to share theirs. Are any of ours your player, too? Mojo  It’s hard for me to pick just a single player...

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A Beat Writer’s Perspective: The 2020 Season

The 2020 season is unlike any other baseball season. Over three months of baseball was missed, fans aren’t allowed in stadiums to watch, COVID testing is done constantly, and the number of media per game is limited. Baseball fans have their own perspective on this season — whether that be a positive one or a negative one. But, what does someone who does get to go into the stadium,...

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MLB News: Positive COVID-19 Test Sidelines Juan Soto

The Nationals and Yankees face off tonight in the first regular season game of the 2020 baseball season. But one star will be missing it. According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, Juan Soto will be missing the game as he has tested positive for COVID-19. Nationals GM Mike Rizzo announced that Soto is asymptomatic. Soto has tested negative multiple times throughout last several weeks, but can’t be...

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MMO Roundtable: Which Met Will Exceed Expectations This Season?

With the season set to begin for the Mets this Friday, we have to ask, which player will exceed our expectations? Will it be Amed Rosario? Edwin Diaz? We all know it won’t be Jed Lowrie (too soon?), but there are many others who do have the potential to. Matt  Edwin Diaz I don’t think you can have as unlucky a season as Diaz had in his first year in Queens. Statistically speaking,...

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Is It Bad To Be This Excited After Two Losing Exhibition Games?

The short answer is no. The Mets may have lost in both their exhibition games this weekend, to their cross-town rivals no less, but hear me out — it just made me more excited for this season. It made me realize how much I have missed baseball, and how much this distraction is very much needed right now. We saw Yoenis Cespedes play in a baseball game for the first time in two years. We saw...

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