Good morning Mets fans! Today, BBWAA will announce their Awards finalists on MLB Network at 6 p.m. Jacob deGrom is expected to win the Cy Young Award, while Pete Alonso is expected to win the National League Rookie of the Year award. Latest Mets News Howie Rose was inducted into the New York Baseball Hall of Fame. David Lennon advocates for additional spending from the Wilpons this winter. Tim...
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By Matt Mancuso Good morning Mets fans! I have a love/hate relationship with tomorrow. On the bright side, the Nationals, a.k.a the bane of my adolescence, could lose the World Series. While their baby-shark celebrations and the dancing skills of Juan Soto had me rooting for them at a point, I’ve come to the conclusion that their many inter-division losses outweigh whatever dances come...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Tomorrow, the 115th annual World Series will kick off at 8 p.m. on FOX. It’ll be a heck of a pitching matchup in Game 1 with Max Scherzer (2-0, 1.80 ERA this postseason) expected to match up against Gerrit Cole (3-0, 0.40 ERA). Cole has been virtually unhittable this October. He’s allowed a singular run in 22.2 innings this postseason, anchoring the...
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Last month, Tom Tango introduced Baseball Savant’s newest tool: Statcast Swing Take. Every other calculation that the folks at Baseball Savant have created has taken into account the bigger picture of a baseball game: the value of a certain hit, the probability of that hit in terms of exit velocity and launch angle, and the sprint speed. But no other metric had focused on the smaller picture;...
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By Matt Mancuso Good morning, Mets fans! Today, Stephen Strasburg hopes to lead the Nationals to a commanding 3-0 lead in the NLCS. Strasburg has a tough task ahead of him as he’ll be opposed by Jack Flaherty, who pitched to a 0.91 ERA in 15 second-half starts. The game can be viewed on TBS at 7:38 p.m. With their 3-2 victory last night, the Astros tied the series 1-1 against the...
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