Well, well, well. We finally have stuff to talk about here. After six weeks of rumors and lull in actual activity, the Mets hired a general manager, lost a player people widely expected them to keep and added a bundle of minor-leaguers to their 40-man roster. It was so busy, Luis Rojas getting hired by the Yankees as their third-base coach basically got swept under the rug. Let’s talk it...
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Seiya Suzuki, the Nipon Professional Baseball star, will be posted by the Hiroshima Carp, his Japanese club, on Monday morning, according to Jon Heyman. Teams will have 30 days to negotiate and sign Suzuki, setting his signing deadline as 5 p.m. on December 22. Any team can negotiate with Suzuki once he’s posted. The Mets have scouted Suzuki, as MMO’s Mike Mayer pointed out, and...
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New Mets general manager Billy Eppler’s introductory press conference was Friday afternoon, and during it, he revealed he has been in contact with players’ agents since Thursday night, when he was officially named GM. Eppler said he started receiving texts from players’ agents, but he didn’t reveal which agents he has been in contact with. Pre-Eppler, the Mets have...
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Shohei Ohtani and Bryce Harper were named American League and National League Most Valuable Players Thursday night. Ohtani had a historic 2021 season where he mashed 46 homers, knocked in 100 runs, and had a .965 OPS on top of throwing a 3.18 ERA in 130 1/3 innings. The Japanese star finished with 8.1 fWAR — 5.1 from pitching and 3.0 from hitting. Just unreal. He took home all 30...
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Update, 11/15/2021 at 7:31 PM EST According to SNY’s Andy Martino, Epper is expected to become the Mets’ general manager. Joel Sherman noted that the contract details are “nearing the finish line,” and he also brought up Eppler’s close relationship with Brewers executive David Stearns. The way it was described to me is that Billy Eppler is nearing the finish line to...
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