Speaking to the media at Citi Field during the inaugural New York Mets Fan Fest, new Mets manager Luis Rojas said he is not yet committing to a set closer for the 2020 season. According to Tim Ryder of MetsMerized, who is at Citi Field covering the event, Rojas doesn’t want to start defining roles just yet. The Mets have a few options to close out games if everyone is healthy: Edwin Diaz,...
Read More
The Atlanta Braves are bringing in a former Cy Young winner and All-Star to compete for their fifth starter. According to Jon Heyman of MLB Network, the Braves have signed Felix Hernandez as a non-roster invitee who will compete to make the team out of Spring Training. Hernandez, 34 in April, has spent the entirety of his 15-year career with the Seattle Mariners, originally debuting as a...
Read More
The comeback starts now. Mets’ outfielder Yoenis Cespedes took to Twitter on Monday, posting a video of himself doing it all: running, batting and fielding. ⏳😎 #LGM pic.twitter.com/B0VyUcTecc — Yoenis Cespedes (@ynscspds) January 20, 2020 Cespedes, 34, missed all of 2019 and was marred by injuries in 2017-18, but underwent surgery to remove calcification in both of his heels after...
Read More
What a sad, dark, dramatic and unprecedented week it’s been for the game of baseball. The Houston Astros were smacked down with a handful of penalties that included the forfeiture of their first and second round picks in the next two drafts, a fine of $5 million and the suspension and subsequent firings of general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch. This has set off a chain of...
Read More
When Brodie Van Wagenen took over as Mets’ general manager last year, one of the prominent messages he preached was eliminating “what ifs.” “One of the things that I think this club suffered from the last couple years was putting a lot of weight into ‘ifs’ ” Van Wagenen said last offseason. “If player X is healthy, if player X rebounds to have...
Read More
