After today’s contest, the Mets have optioned RHP Corey Oswalt to their alternate training site at MCU Park in Brooklyn. A corresponding move has yet to be announced. Oswalt had the unfortunate duty of soaking up four frames of work after Rick Porcello’s abbreviated debut. In his four innings, he was drubbed to the tune of seven hits, five runs, and three home runs. This was...
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After Zack Wheeler’s departure to the “City of Brotherly Love” this offseason, the Mets ventured into the free agency market to pick up a pair of veteran starters, Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello. In Wacha, the Mets have themselves a project. Once considered an elite can’t-miss farmhand, Wacha’s prospect pedigree took a tumble about a half-decade ago. He’s...
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Fast baseball players tend to hit ground-balls. And usually, they’re pretty good at it. In order to procure this analysis, it didn’t take much time; merely common sense led me to this conclusion. Baseball players who are fleet of foot are likely to beat out ground-balls because his speed gives them a natural advantage. Which makes it all the more confusing how Wilson Ramos led the Majors in...
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Good Morning, Mets fans! Two more days until Opening Day! Latest Mets News Yoenis Cespedes revealed that he will DH for New York Opening Day. The Mets have set up a poster of Anthony Causi in Citi Field’s photography well. Jon Heyman of Fancred tweeted out that the Mets are looking into bullpen help. Latest MLB News Hayden Godfrey of Baseball America profiled how influential...
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Jed Lowrie. The gift that keeps on taking away. At the time of his signing, Jed Lowrie’s two-year, twenty-million-dollar contract represented a nice change in pace for the Mets. Instead of going into the season with a bevy of unanswered depth questions, Lowrie’s signing virtually guaranteed that New York would be all set at the infield. Yet, a year into the deal, it’s evident...
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