The New York Mets Tuesday released medical updates on their players, including Dominic Smith, Jay Bruce, Juan Lagares, Tim Tebow, Jacob deGrom and Yoenis Cespedes. -Contrary to reports from manager Mickey Callaway on Monday, Smith’s MRI confirmed that he is suffering with a strained right quad. He will gradually return to baseball activity. -Bruce, who has been dealing with plantar...
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Mets infielder Gavin Cecchini has the odds stacked against him to break camp with the team, but he’s not letting that stop him. In Monday’s 8-7 loss to the Houston Astros, Cecchini went 2-for-2 including a two-run bomb in the seventh inning that gave New York a then 6-5 lead. Cecchini has come into camp bulked up with a brand new swing, but realizes the challenges of having several...
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Former New York Mets pitcher and SNY analyst Bob Ojeda joined WOR’s Sports Zone with Pete McCarthy on Monday and weighed in on several topics including Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Zack Wheeler and the pitching staff as a whole. Syndergaard started Monday’s game for the Mets against the Houston Astros and struck out two over two innings, while dialing his fastball up to 101 mph....
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Mets manager Mickey Callaway announced Monday that right-handed pitcher Matt Harvey will start Wednesday’s game against the Atlanta Braves in his Spring debut. Fellow right-hander Zack Wheeler will come on in relief of Harvey. Wheeler last pitched on Friday and yielded just one hit in one inning of work. He struck out two and topped out at 97 mph. Harvey is entering his walk year as a New...
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Noah Syndergaard wasted no time showing off his arm in his first Spring Training start Monday. The right-hander fired two clean innings against the Houston Astros. Of his 22 pitches, he pumped out 11 pitches over 100 mph. He topped out at 101 mph in consecutive pitches to Jose Altuve in the first inning. “A couple of times I saw the radar gun, but I didn’t even feel like I was exerting a whole...
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