The Mets announced Tuesday they recalled right-handed starting pitcher José Butto from Triple-A Syracuse. He will start Tuesday’s game against the Washington Nationals. The team placed Edwin Uceta on the 15-day injured list with a sprained right ankle. He last pitched three innings in Saturday’s loss to the San Francisco Giants. Butto will fill a hole in the rotation as the team...
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Ronny Mauricio has been tearing it up at Triple-A Syracuse, slashing .350/.395/.688/1.083 at just 22 years old–nearly five years younger than the league average. It’s amazing Mauricio has already amassed over 2,100 plate appearances across the minors. However, basically all of them were played at shortstop (or designated hitter). This weekend, the Mets changed that. Mauricio, who...
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The Mets announced Tuesday they place Carlos Carrasco on the 15-day injured list with right elbow inflammation. They recalled reliever Jeff Brigham to his roster spot. In an update, the New York Post’s Mike Puma reported that Carrasco has a bone chip in his right elbow, which was causing the discomfort and inflammation. The team is hoping the injection he received on Wednesday will allow...
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Questions still linger about how the shift ban will affect the total number of hits in baseball—and if banning the shift really does anything at all. (If you look at year-over-year heat maps of where players position themselves, there’s not really a huge change from 2022 to 2023.) But whether the Mets are shading their infield toward second or playing straight up, they are hitting all the...
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The last time Max Scherzer faced the San Diego Padres—in the 2022 NL Wild Card Round—he had one of the worst starts of his career. In the two games that followed—his first two this season—Scherzer fell apart in the sixth inning, allowing a total of six runs over those two frames. Monday, though, the veteran and leader of the Mets’ rotation seemed to get back on track. Though not perfect,...
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