This year, Puerto Rico hopes that the third time is the charm in the World Baseball Classic. After being the runner-ups in 2013 and 2017, Puerto Rico wants to capture that elusive first title and they will have a new manager in former St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina. Puerto Rico’s WBC will begin on March 11 when they take on Nicaragua in Miami, Florida (noon ET, FS2) in the opening...
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Now that the rosters for all 20 countries in next month’s World Baseball Classic are out, it’s time to examine the teams in-depth. Today, we will take a look at the position-player pool. Obviously, we can’t go too deep in terms of how each manager is going to set up their lineup in pool play, but we can go position-by-position to determine some of the stronger lineup in this year’s tournament....
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It is easy for catchers in the New York Mets system to go under-the-radar when your organization has the likes of Francisco Alvarez and Kevin Parada as two of its top prospects. With veteran catcher Omar Narvaez playing in the WBC next month, the Mets invited a few catcher prospects to spring training as non-roster invitees and one of them was Hayden Senger. Senger received an invite to major...
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If you are looking for one player in the New York Mets’ organization that made the biggest rise in 2022, one name that comes to mind is right-handed reliever Grant Hartwig. Last year, Hartwig made an appearance at each of the four levels in the system in his first full season of professional baseball. Due to the 20-round limit in the MLB Draft, Hartwig ended up signing as an undrafted free agent...
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With the World Baseball Classic a little more than a month away, a lot of attention at Port St. Lucie will be on who isn’t at Mets spring training compared to who is once the tournament begins. One player who will be there, at least for right now, is new right-handed pitcher Kodai Senga. Team Japan released its 30-man preliminary roster for the WBC in late January and Senga was not on the list....
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