It took six days of the Mets playing shorthanded to come to terms with the reality that outfielder Michael Conforto needed a stint on the disabled list. Conforto, 24, was struck on his left hand by a pitch from Matt Moore on Sunday, June 25 during the Mets series finale in San Francisco. The outfielder was in noticeable pain and exited the game, but x-rays came back negative. Regardless, the...
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July 1 again? That must mean it’s Bobby Bonilla Day for the New York Mets organization once more. As most, if not all, Mets fans have come to know, Bonilla will receive a check for $1.19 million on the first of July until 2035. The Mets got themselves into this situation after they deferred $5.9 million they owed Bobby Bo for the 2000 season. Bonilla didn’t even play a game for the...
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Neil Walker spoke to reporters Wednesday and said he has resumed baseball activities and is in the beginning stages of running. “If the next several days go well we might progress a little more. If I’m sore, we’ll back off. There is no timetable,” Walker said. “It’s all dependent on how things go in the weight room and how things go with the strength and stability and then we’ll...
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If 2017 has been an indicator of anything, it’s that you can never have enough pitching. Going into the season with Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler and Steven Matz all healthy, pitching should have been the least of the team’s worries, so was thought. Even if one or two went down, Robert Gsellman or Seth Lugo who had much success at the end of 2016, could...
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With Wilmer Flores’ performance Sunday in the Mets series finale against the San Francisco Giants, the infielder racked up another solid performance, going 2-for-4 at the dish while also drawing a walk and scoring a run. The 25-year-old is now hitting at a .299/.325/.487 clip with seven long balls and 24 RBI. Late last month, I wrote a piece on how Flores was putting together a nice little...
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