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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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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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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The MMO has shared our predictions for the 2020 MLB Awards. Now it’s time to talk division and playoffs — who is going to take it? Will it be the Mets? Let’s see what the MMO team thinks. Sal NL East: Nationals NL Central: Brewers NL West: Dodgers NL Wild Card: Mets and Reds AL East: Yankees AL Central: Twins AL West: Astros AL Wild Cards: Indians and Blue Jays Jack NL East:...
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Baseball is being played all around the world, even if we may not realize it. As a Greek-American, I didn’t even know about the Greek National Baseball team until recently. But, I am sure you can imagine how ecstatic I was to learn more about it and to share more about it with you all. I spoke with Dimitri Kourtis, a right-handed pitcher for the Greek National Team, originally hailing from...
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